Les galanteries et les debauches de l’empereur Neron…Par Petrone (Bamburgh I.5.32)
A post by Collections Assistant Caroline Ball, in Cologne
On the title-page of this book, the imprint tells us that it was published in 1694, in Cologne, in the workshop of the printer Pierre Marteau. Sounds plausible? Certainly, until we discover that Pierre Marteau – “Peter the Hammer” – never actually existed.
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If you look back through past DULib blog posts, you will realise that I, (Kelly Hetherington, Repository Officer), am no stranger to attending events and then singing the praises of my Museum colleagues – whether that’s attending Holi Festival or Diwali with my young family or attending teaching demonstrations held for University Library and Collections (ULC) staff. So when ULC’s Staff Development Group (SDG) announced a visit to the Oriental Museum, organised by Ross Wilkinson (Learning and Engagement Manager), I thought it wouldn’t apply to me as a seasoned visitor. Luckily, my manager encouraged me to visit and so a new blog post is born.
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In the next of our series introducing members of staff, #DULibIntroducing meets Customer Service Assistant Trevor Bailey
In the next of our series introducing members of staff, #DULibIntroducing meets Systems Developer Sunny Moon-Schott
For the Academic Libraries North event ‘You Said, We Did’
A post by Faculty Librarian Ben Taylorson
With Zoom and Teams now part of everyday working practices for many of us, the need to physically go somewhere for ‘a thing’ has diminished. But I do like a good, old-fashioned ‘in person’ event. So, when the chance came to travel to the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) to meet with a group of fellow librarians for a morning of information sharing, I took it.
I arrived the night before the event, and thus was able to have a bit of a mooch about in Preston. I’d been a couple of times before, but only to the football ground to see my beloved Boro win once and get thrashed once. After having a wander and buying a meal deal from Tesco, I then retired to the comfort of the Premier Inn where I ate a BLT sandwich and 2 boiled eggs whilst watching Police Interceptors (I feel this is the realistic glimpse behind the curtain of the life of a librarian you were looking for).
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Gartner is the leading provider of research and analysis on the global IT industry. All Durham staff and Students have access Gartner Campus Access as a resource via the portal which gives access to:
Find out more about the benefits of self-archiving and going “green”
If you are publishing research at Durham University, it is likely that you’ve had some contact with the ‘DRO team’ (i.e. the staff who manage Durham Research Online).
One of the DRO team’s main responsibilities is supporting academics to self-archive their outputs. You may receive email reminders, or receive a notification from us on Worktribe, reminding you to deposit your accepted manuscript – but what is an accepted manuscript and why is it so important to deposit?
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A post by Collections Coordinator Hannah Cartwright
Our item of this monthis Peter Apian’s Cosmographia. Initially published in 1524, later editions of Cosmographia expanded and edited by Gemma Frisius became hugely successful. Our 1584 edition is one of these later editions. Over 40 editions of Cosmographia were published in under a century, and it was translated from Latin into 4 different languages.
So, what made Cosmographia a 16th century bestseller?
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Each month we spotlight one of our databases to highlight the range of resources available to our users. This month, Business Faculty Librarian Ben Taylorson turns the spotlight on a database we have on trial.
We are frequently approached by resource providers who are keen to have us trial their databases – obviously they do this as they are hoping we might add their product to our overall portfolio of resources. One such resource that we have on trial currently is the Henry Stewart Talks (HS Talks) Business and Management Collection.
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A post by Susan Hull
In 2021 I began the Lendrum graduate internship in Book Conservation at Durham University. I applied for this post whilst completing an MA in Conservation of Fine Art with a paper specialism at Northumbria University, having had previous voluntary experience in object conservation based in museums. This internship was essentially my first taste of book conservation. For the next two years I worked alongside the conservation team at Palace Green Library, home of the Durham University Archive and Special Collections. The team comprised of book, paper and collections conservation specialists, all of whom were generous in sharing their knowledge and enthusiasm.
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