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2020 Colin Ford Lecture |
Professor Larry Schaaf delivers the 2020 Colin Ford Lecture, providing a fascinating insight into his work on The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonne. |
Larry Schaaf |
14 Feb 2020 |
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Teaching the Codex 2019 21: Latin Palaeography 2 (Irish and beyond) |
Anne McLaughlin (Cambridge) speaks at the 2019 Teaching the Codex colloquium on 'Many Books and Certain Books: Irish Manuscripts'. |
Anne McLaughlin |
16 Dec 2019 |
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Academic Essentials (Postgraduate) |
An introduction to academic life at Oxford specifically for new postgraduate students with advice about how to navigate the demands of your course. |
Allison D'Ambrosia, James Tibbert |
14 Aug 2019 |
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Academic Essentials (Undergraduate) |
An introduction to academic life at Oxford specifically for new undergraduate students with advice about how to navigate the demands of your course. |
Teodora Musatoiu, Liam Arbuthnot |
14 Aug 2019 |
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Decay and closure of libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (6) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the sixth and final lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
16 May 2019 |
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Growth, competition, stability, loss, renewal - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (5) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the fifth lecture inthe 2019 Lyell series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
14 May 2019 |
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Turnover in libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (4) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the fourth lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy |
Richard Sharpe |
09 May 2019 |
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Medieval libraries of Great Britain - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (1) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, gives the first of the 2019 Lyell lecture series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
30 Apr 2019 |
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Creative Commons |
The Future of the Monograph: An Open Access Forum |
Panel Discussion to debate the proposed changes to the policy on Open Access for monographs in the next REF after REF 2021 which will have profound implications for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. |
Richard Ovenden, Julia Smith, Helen Snaith, David Clark |
16 Nov 2018 |
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Seeing is Believing: Computer vision and machine learning for image collections |
Giles Bergel gives a talk on using new technologies to understand the history of books and printing. |
Giles Bergel |
05 Jul 2017 |
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Encoding and Encoded Texts |
Panel chaired by Pip Wilcox, with Barbara McGillivray, Megan Senseney and Nicholas Cole. |
Pip Wilcox, Barbara McGillivray, Megan Senseney, Nicholas Cole. |
04 Jul 2017 |
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Nicholas Crouch's seventeenth-century books |
Professor Adam Smyth talks to cataloguer Lucy Kelsall and book conservator Nikki Tomkins about the seventeenth-century library of Nicholas Crouch, now in Balliol College, and how to deal with fragile books. |
Adam Smyth, Lucy Kelsall, Nikki Tomkins |
13 Mar 2017 |
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Elementary cursive handwriting in English and Scottish Charters, 1150-1250 |
Teresa Webber (Cambridge), gives a talk in the the unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, held on September 30th 2016. |
Teresa Webber |
14 Oct 2016 |
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Launch of the 15th Century Booktrade |
Cristina Dondi and her colleagues launch the 15th Century Booktrade. |
Cristina Dondi, Kristian Jensen, Geri Della Rocca de Candal, Simon Walton |
21 Jul 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
Imaging Beyond the Institution: How DIY Digitization Impacts Research |
Judith Siefring, (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the 2016 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School. |
Judith Siefring |
06 Jul 2016 |
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What Does it Mean to be Human in the Digital Age? |
A librarian, literary scholar, museum director and digital commentator explore how the digital age has shaped, and will continue to shape, the human experience and the humanities |
Lynne Brindley, Tom Chatfield, Chris Fletcher, Diane Lees |
22 Jan 2016 |
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The Trade in Printed Books: an ingenious innovation that changed the Western World |
Second in the Marks of Genius series, with Dr Christina Dondi |
Christina Dondi |
19 May 2015 |
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Abridging Histories: Capt. James Cook and the Voyages of Reading (1784-) |
Professor Michael Suarez, in the Lyell Lectures 2015, urges scholars to remember the books that most readers encountered: the cheaper abridged versions of popular novels and accounts such as Cook's voyages. |
Michael Suarez |
18 May 2015 |
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True Colours: A Natural History of Louis Renard's Poissons (1719) |
Professor Michael Suarez continues the Lyell Lectures 2015, asking what role colour plays in bibliographical description? |
Michael Suarez |
18 May 2015 |
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Graham Greene and Josephine Reid |
Adam Smyth talks to Balliol College, Oxford archivist Anna Sander about an exciting new archive of letters relating to Graham Greene and his secretary, Josephine Reid. |
Adam Smyth, Anna Sander |
13 May 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
Widening Access to the British Library's Collections and Services |
Dr Aquiles Alencar-Brayner walks through some of the extraordinary projects led at the British Library which aim to engage and encourage interaction with the general public. |
Aquiles Alencar-Brayner |
16 Feb 2015 |
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21.Digital Collections as Research Infrastructure. |
Lorna Hughes, National Library of Wales delivers the closing keynote lecture. Part of the Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School 2013. |
Lorna Hughes |
07 Aug 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
3.5 Libraries Don't Have to Change, Do They? |
Dr Wolfram Horstmann (Associate Director for Digital Library Programmes and Information Technology, Bodleian Libraries) talks about cultural heritage and libraries. |
Wolfram Horstmann |
18 Feb 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
23 Things: Oxford |
Laura Wilkinson and Penny Schenk, librarians at the University of Oxford and members of the 23 Things Oxford Team, talk about their blog-based training programme to teach Web 2.0 skills to Oxford librarians. |
Laura Wilkinson, Penny Schenk |
24 Aug 2012 |
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Creative Commons |
Silence in the Archives |
Seventh presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow. |
Claire Knight |
22 Feb 2011 |
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The future of the past; The Bodleian's great acquisitions |
Part of the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Dr Ovenden looks at the Bodleian's great acquisitions, from Alan Bennett's gift of his literary archive to Cavalli's Erismena, the earliest surviving score of an opera in the English language. |
Richard Ovenden |
30 Nov 2010 |
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The infinitely expanding universe of memory; books, manuscript...pixels |
Part of the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Bodley's Librarian Dr Sarah Thomas in conversation with Dr Alice Prochaska, Principal of Somerville, discussing the 'infinitely expanding universe of memory' and collections in the digital age. |
Sarah Thomas, Alice Prochaska |
30 Nov 2010 |
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Creative Commons |
The Bodleian Shakespeare: A treasure lost... and regained |
From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Emma Smith reveals how Oxford University mobilised Alumni support to bring Shakespeare's First Folio back to the Bodleian library over 200 years after it was lost. |
Emma Smith |
19 Oct 2010 |
