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Trial Access: AFRICA COMMONS — 400,000+ Digitized Items
Originally posted on Cambridge University Library’s Electronic Collection Management Blog. We are pleased to announce a new trial for Africa Commons, a project to digitize, disseminate, and discover African cultural materials. Click the blog link below to read more. Check out… Read more
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New e-resource : Early Arabic Books from the British Library
Originally posted by the Cambridge e-journals blog. Early Arabic Books from the British Library is now available for members of the University of Cambridge to access. Read more
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New purchase: University of Chicago Press 2023 collection
Originally posted on ebooks@cambridge: I’m pleased to say that the UL has purchased the University of Chicago’s 2023 ebooks collection (following on from last year’s purchase of their 2019-2022 collections). The collection is hosted on the De Gruyter platform, and… Read more
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What is FCO 141 and why did The National Archives remove it from public domain?
July 11th, 2022: The National Archives (TNA) withdrew the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO – FCDO’s predecessor) 141 collection from public use for a health and safety assessment. In a press release it stated the action was “due to evidence… Read more
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Visiting with Ann Graham Kafoury and her Memoir — Peace Corps: Ghana, 1967
“Ghana in 1967 was much different to the Ghana of today”, Ann Graham Kafoury tells us. Ann was a Peace Corps (PC) volunteer there for two years teaching English to teachers in training. Primarily based in Bolgatanga, a northern town… Read more
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JSTOR and Ebook Central DDAs: December update
Originally posted on ebooks@cambridge: December is normally relatively quiet in terms of DDA (demand-driven acquisition) activity, but December 2022 was busier than usual: 109 titles were triggered for permanent purchase (up from 84 in the same month in 2021), with… Read more