Last year the Cardiff Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (CUROP), an initiative which provides summer placements for undergraduates in the university research environment, helped fund a research project on Marginalia and Provenance in the Restoration Drama texts of the Cardiff Rare Books Collection. This year, another CUROP award helped fund two more undergraduates to undertake research for Dr Melanie Bigold’s on-going project on Marginalia and Provenance in the Cardiff Rare Books.
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Tagged Cardiff Rare Books Collection, marginalia, provenance
The first of this year's series of Rare Books and Music Lectures was presented by Dr Loukia Drosopoulou, the academic specialist who is working on the cataloguing of the Music historical collections in the JISC funded project in Cardiff. Her lecture title - '18th and 19th Century Music Collections at Cardiff', was subtitled: 'Travelling Collections', and this was a major strand in her talk, relating the complex and compelling historical story of the provenance of these collections, and their journey from printer, publisher or family owner, to the public and university libraries which have held these music scores and manuscripts for the last two centuries and more.
We've been a bit quiet on the conference blog for a while, but still busily working away in the background, we assure you. And now we have something to show for it, as we've established a really exciting new collaboration. On Friday Rhiannon and I had a meeting at Cardiff University with Special Collections librarians and academics to see how we might collaborate for our Locating Boccaccio events next year.
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As a contribution to the (JISC funded) Music Cataloguing Project here in Special Collections and Archives a digital selection of texts which are to be catalogued has been produced for our website by Alison Harvey (Assistant Archivist). Alison has been cataloguing Mackworth manuscripts recently, but the web exhibition includes selections also from the Aylward and BBC collections which are part of the Project (and we’ve included a digital section from an archive we hold of a Welsh composer also). Details can be seen on our website here:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/insrv/libraries/scolar/digital/music.html
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The recent acquisition by Cardiff University of the Cardiff Rare Books Collection presents a significant opportunity for research into English literature spanning the 15th to the 20th centuries. Totalling around 14,000 items, the collection was assembled by Cardiff public library from the late 19th century from donations, purchases and bequests when it had aspirations to become the home of the National Library of Wales.
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Come along to the first event in the Cardiff Rare Books and Music Lecture Series 2011-12 – all welcome!
29 September 2011
Special Collections and Archives Reading Room
3pm: Launch event for the expanded and enhanced Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration. The event will include demonstrations about the new DMVI system, an overview of the DICE image management system and a discussion of applications of both resources to research and teaching.
5pm: Drinks reception and the inaugural Cardiff Rare Books and Music Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Hans Walter Gabler (University of Munich), who will be presenting ‘Ideas towards Interfacing Digital Humanities Research’, as part of the University’s Distinguished Lecturer Series.
