Spare Rib liberated online
The iconic radical magazine Spare Rib has been preserved in an online archive by the British Library. From yesterday, all 239 issues of the magazine, which charted the women’s liberation… Read more »
New British Library report suggests people crave physical books in digital age
A new report released by the British Library attributes a 10% increase in the number of visitors per year (2014 numbers were up to 1.6 million visitors from 1,465,318 visits… Read more »
British Library to exhibit Declaration of Independence, all hell to potentially break loose
In a curatorial decision that risks provoking international incidents involving tea and harbors, the British Library has announced that it will be exhibiting the Declaration of Independence and the Bill… Read more »
Jane Austen read her reviews… and kept notes on them
Some authors refuse to read their reviews. And then there’s Jane Austen. Who not only, it turns out, listened to what her friends and acquaintances had to say about her… Read more »
Whose reading room is it, anyway?
Is taking a photo of a library’s reading room copyright infringement? That’s the question that arose last week when two researchers, one at the British Library and one at the New York Public… Read more »
British Library brings its collection of images to Flickr
The British Library has recently taken a sizable chunk of its collection to the internet, Nick Clark writes for the Independent, posting more than a million images on Flickr for… Read more »
UK libraries begin archiving websites and other digital content
A regulation came quietly into play last week in the UK that has long-term implications for the preservation of digital content. It is essentially an extension of the principle called… Read more »