RLUK_Mike: That's all folks! Thanks v. much 2 Michael Emly & Alison Faraday, & all our speakers today (especially given the train situation!) #rluksafe
Follow Us On Twitter
RLUK_Mike: David Prosser - other major themes, adapting the #UKRR for monographs, addressing a digital surrogate register for the UK #rluksafe
RLUK_Mike: RT @speccollbrad: Hard at work on #rluk #oclc survey - I'm commenting on #borndigital bit - well, I like a challenge!
RLUK_Mike: David Prosser: some key themes - the necessity not just the choice of collaboration; advocacy; evidence (metadata & case studies) #rluksafe
RLUK_Mike: Would a next generation solution be 2 rapidly digitize title pages & use visual pattern recognition 2 deduplicate our collections? #rluksafe
RLUK_Mike: How should we take the #rluksafe work forward: can we expect a top-down model or are we the community the likely operative force here?
The RLUK Newsletter
Contact Details
RLUK Office
Maughan Library and Information Services Centre
King's College London
Chancery Lane
London
WC2A 1LR
Telephone: 02078482737
Email: mike.mertens@rluk.ac.uk
Popular content
18 March 2009 - 19th Century pamphlets Online service to be launched
Launch of major new RLUK-sponsored research service
The 19th Century Pamphlets Online service will be formally launched at the University of Liverpool on Friday 20 March 2009. This major new digital resource will provide desktop access to more than 23,000 19th century pamphlets covering the political, social and economic issues of their day - the result of sponsorship and investment from RLUK (Research Libraries UK), JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and JSTOR.
The event will seek to place 19th century pamphlets within their historical, literary and cultural contexts, and to consider the potential of their digitisation for research and teaching.
About the project and its collections
19th Century Pamphlets Online will provide access to some of the most significant collections of pamphlets held in UK research libraries. This includes the personal collections of Joseph Hume (from UCL) and Joseph Cowen (Newcastle), the family collections of the Earls Grey (Durham) and Earls of Derby (Liverpool), the Foreign Office and Colonial Office collections (Manchester), and selections from the large collections held by LSE and the University of Bristol. In all, more than 1 million pages (about 23,000 pamphlets) will be digitised and made freely available to UK users via JSTOR.
The 19th Century Pamphlets Online project was instigated by RLUK and is led by the University of Southampton. It has received major funding from the JISC in the second phase of its large Digitisation Programme. For more information about this project and the JISC Digitisation Programme, please see http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/pamphlets