News
| New website for UK Legislation | 20 September 2010 | ||
| Legislation.gov.uk brings together the legislative content currently held on the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) website and revised legislation from the Statute Law Database (SLD) to provide a single legislation service that replaces the current services. The OPSI and SLD websites are in the process of being decommissioned with users re-directed to this new service. The full text of primary UK legislation from 1267 and secondary UK legislation from 1988 is available, including amendments. Browse chronologically; search by title, number or date of enactment. An RSS feed is available for newly enacted legislation. |
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| State Papers Online | 10 November 2008 | ||
| Cambridge University has subscribed to Part I of State Papers Online, The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic, containing 380,000 facsimile manuscript documents linked to fully-searchable Calendar entries for this period. State Papers Online can be accessed without passwords on campus, and off-campus via Raven. (Use the Athens link at the bottom left of the page, then click on 'alternative login' to enter your institution's details.) |
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| Visit of the Prince of Wales to the Commonwealth Room | 03 July 2008 | ||
On the 27 May, 2008, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales visited the University Library where
he was shown some of the 'crown jewels' of the RCS Library on display in the Commonwealth Room
before unveiling a plaque commemorating his visit.
The Prince of Wales was patron of a £3m appeal which saved the Royal Commonwealth Society collection from dispersal in the early 90s and brought it to the University Library where it has continued to grow and is available to researchers around the world. |
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| New public workstations in the Commonwealth Room | 28 May 2008 |
| Two new public workstations have been installed in the Commonwealth Room, allowing readers to access the full range of e-resources offered by the library. Readers should log in using their DRA passwords, and printing may be collected from the Digital Resources Area. For more information please see the DRA webpages. | |
| Parliamentary Papers online, 1688-2006 | 14 April 2008 |
| House of Commons Parliamentary Papers now incorporates The Eighteenth Century Parliamentary Papers Collection from BOPCRIS, giving readers full-text access to a huge volume of Parliamentary material from 1688 to the present day. | |
| Online renewals now available | 27 September 2007 |
| Online renewal of University Library books is now available for items borrowed from 24 September 2007
onwards. Under the new borrowing regulations, loans can be renewed for one period ONLY (either in person
or online) before they must be returned to the Library. You can renew your books via Newton, the Library
catalogue, by selecting 'your account' from the catalogue home page. For further details, please see Help with Newton. |
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| Slavery, shackles and sugar: the route to freedom? | 10 July 2007 |
| An eight-case exhibition on display in the main corridor of the University Library until 31 July 2007, Slavery, shackles and sugar commemorates the 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. Material includes images, books and artefacts from the Royal Commonwealth Society Library together with letters dealing with the slave trade, abolitionist movements, and slavery in the 20th and 21st centuries. | |
| Historical Statistics of the United States | 05 July 2007 |
| The online edition of this resource, published by Cambridge University Press, is now available across the University. The online version enhances and complements the book series by giving users a variety of means to search and navigate the vast amount of data in the Historical Statistics. Users will be able to graph individual tables or to combine data from different tables into "custom tables" and to download tables for use in spreadsheets and other applications. | |
| Removal of open shelf material from South Wing Floor 3 | 30 May 2007 |
| Books on South Wing Floor 3 (OP1-OP99) have now been moved to a closed access area. Material in
the closed store may be requested in the Commonwealth Room. For more information, please contact Bill Noblett, Head of Official Publications (in the Commonwealth Room or at wan1000@cam.ac.uk). |
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| Royal Commonwealth Society Official Publications Project | 01 May 2007 |
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The collections of the Royal Commonwealth Society include over 2,213 metres of official and related publications, dating from the mid 19th century and including many rare and internationally significant reports. |
Cataloguing and preservation of this material is now under way, making a welcome contribution to international historical understanding of Britain's former colonies and the early workings of the Commonwealth. |
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