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We're taking part in #AskaConservator Day on 4 November. Send us the questions you've been longing to ask, and we'll pass them on to the Conservation team at Cambridge University Library! Leave a comment here, or send us a message ✉️ Stay tuned for content on the day... 🔎

"I've been framed, guv. That smashed vase? Nothing to do with me, honest" 😼🕵️‍♂️ A treasure from our #UKLegalDeposit collections for #BlackCatDay 🐾 📍 Black Cats are Lucky by A. Fielding (1937.7.2763)

We’re hiring! We are looking for a Research Institute Administrator (Fixed Term) to join the team at the University Library Research Institute. 📚🔬🔎 Apply before 8 November: https://loom.ly/-eJ_z0Q #Jobs #Hiring #CambridgeUniversityLibrary

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event will now take place on 26 Jan 2027. If you have already signed up, we have held your booking for the rescheduled date, and you should receive a notification. We’re sorry for any disappointment this may cause. Thank you for your understanding and support.

There's still time to book your FREE tickets for our event tomorrow: loom.ly/_NYl-Kk

Paper on leather. #WeekPforPaper #AlphabetChallenge @theul.bsky.social

Explore highlights from an evening celebrating world-leading research involving University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives staff. Discover the projects featured:https://loom.ly/m0yYEC0

See #OpenResearch in action at the University of Cambridge! In this film, Professor Jennifer Gabrys (@camsociology.bsky.social) explains how she uses #CitizenScience and open data to work with communities to tackle environmental challenges: https://loom.ly/3l9cE60

Pink sorrel flowering at the back of @theul.bsky.social next to Grange Road. #WildflowerHour

We’re hiring! We are looking for an experienced HR Professional to join our team at the University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives. Apply by 29 October: https://loom.ly/LDSbfWE

Join us for a panel discussion with leading researchers exploring the cultural importance of water and the environmental challenges facing the life it sustains. 📆Thursday 22 October ⏰5.30 to 7pm 📍Cambridge University Library 🎟️FREE, but booking is essential: https://loom.ly/_NYl-Kk

Heading to a late-night rendezvous at the crypts. Which faithful will make it out alive tonight? 🪦Drop your theories below 👇 #CelebrityTraitors #Traitors 📍This image of three monks is from Expositio in Apocalypsim, c. 1249-1250 (Cambridge University Library, MS Mm.5.31)

#OnThisDay in 1926, A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh was published! 🍯🧸 To celebrate the centenary, let’s explore this interactive story book version of “Pooh Goes Visiting” dating back to the 1930s. 📖 (Classmark: 1931.8.1271) Music by LeonarC from Pixabay

Intrigued today to discover we had a presentation copy of Das Kapital inscribed to Darwin by Marx. I should add that it definitely isn’t my discovery - it’s beautifully described on the online catalogue of @theul.bsky.social, and in the published literature. But exciting.

Riverflies: poetry, citizen science and women in natural history 📆12 Nov ⏰5.30- 7pm 🎟️ https://loom.ly/Gxu3zQI Hosted at the UL, in collaboration with @camglamresearch.bsky.social Natural History Humanities initiative. @nhm-london.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social

Excited to host this free event on Riverflies on 12 November for @theul.bsky.social and @camglamresearch.bsky.social. Featuring Mark Wormald, WildFish, Louise Berridge @nhm-london.bsky.social and Zoë Simmons @morethanadodo.bsky.social. Register at www.lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/riverf...

And that's a wrap on induction week at the #SquireLawLibrary! Tours, talks and inductions for our Tripos, LLM, MCL and PhD students. The busiest week of our year, and the most rewarding. Welcome to Cambridge, everyone! @theul.bsky.social @alsfcam.bsky.social #Cambridge #InductionWeek

I do enjoy spending time at the @theul.bsky.social CUL. Yesterday I went through the original Wentworth parish registers as well as some BFBS letters from the 1840s.

Welcome to Kaddy Benyon, the new Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the UL. One-to-one academic writing support sessions with Kaddy are available for all current University of Cambridge students & staff. 📍 In person at the UL or online 📅 From 12 Oct ✉️ Book now via kaddy.benyon@rlfeducation.org.uk

📜 Flax to Folio: The Global Diffusion of Early Paper and the History of Textiles  Join us for the 2026 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography delivered by Professor Marina Rustow. 17 & 18 November 2026 5-6pm In-person at Robinson College & online 🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs

As another night of plotting in the turret commences, we ponder: Will three traitors remain by the end of the evening? And will our esteemed colleague, Hannah Fry, make it to breakfast tomorrow? We're rooting for you, Hannah! 🤞 Manuscript: Vie de seint Aedward le Rei (MS Ee.3.59), c. 1250-60.

Join us for a panel discussion with leading researchers exploring the cultural importance of water and the environmental challenges facing the life it sustains. 📆Thursday 22 October ⏰5.30 to 7pm 📍Cambridge University Library 🎟️FREE, but booking is essential: https://loom.ly/_NYl-Kk

Welcome to Michaelmas Term at Cambridge University Library! New to the University Library, or just need a refresher? Sign up for one of our guided tours: https://loom.ly/HK0wSBI 📷 Autumn view of the UL by Rebecca Morris

Induction season at the Squire Law Library! 📚 Two sessions last Friday and another two each day this week, welcoming our new LLM and MCL students at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. #SquireLawLibrary #CambridgeUni #FacultyOfLaw @theul.bsky.social

A wonderful week of hard work making parchment from calfskins 🐄 Thank you @theul.bsky.social and @crasshlive.bsky.social #FromSkinToScript #Parchment #PracticeBasedResearch

Welcome to all those joining or returning to the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry. Take a look at the Termly Update shared by @theul.bsky.social to find out about the amazing resources and training available to you. Love that a photo of the Chemistry Library features too! #ChemAtCam

This month's Really Popular Book Club choice is Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958). Join us online on 27 Oct to discuss the novel with @chinemcdonald.bsky.social. Book your free place: https://loom.ly/Vix0gHo 📷Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 1958 (1958.7.1010) #BlackHistoryMonth

This #NationalPoetryDay, discover unpublished work by Seamus Heaney in Cambridge. Our free exhibition, Living Water, features two rare pieces by Heaney: a poem and a short story. They are not online & can only be experienced in person at the exhibition. 🔗 Plan your visit: https://loom.ly/64SyJug

Welcome to Michaelmas Term at University of Cambridge Libraries! 🎓✨ Whether you've just arrived or are returning, our Termly Update has everything you need to get your academic year off to a great start. 📝📚 ➡️ Get the guide: https://loom.ly/-fR71X8 Photo by Alice the Camera

Day 2 done, and parchment completed, cut and a memento received Tomorrow follows the script part at @theul.bsky.social #Skin2Script

Part of @bibsoc.bsky.social's Caxton550 celebration! Caxton ephemera, annotated by Richard Farmer (d. 1797), great collector & @theul.bsky.social Librarian.

As we bid farewell to September, let's enjoy this lovely description from an 1818 children’s book: “The days are now very sensibly shortened, and the mornings and evenings are chill, though the warmth is still considerable in the middle of the day.” Does this sound like your September?

Stonking sunset behind @theul.bsky.social!

Spectacular views from Selwyn for the lucky attendees on the library tour! #ALSF2026

Very excited for this talk by Dr Grace Exley, Munby Fellow at @theul.bsky.social and a Natural History Humanities Postdoctoral Research Associate at @camglamresearch.bsky.social!

OUT NOW - Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible Pictured here at Emmanuel College beneath the Tyndale window, and with the @newnhamcollege.bsky.social table and pink velvet chaise longue that enabled its writing bodleianshop.co.uk/products/sel...

We are recruiting for two posts within the Open Research team, part of University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives. • one full-time post on a permanent basis • one part-time post (18.25 hours) on a fixed-term basis for 2 years Apply by 4 Oct: https://loom.ly/kRSdmnU #CambridgeUniversityJobs

Like Bilbo, our 1st edition of The Hobbit has been ‘There and Back Again’! In 89 years at the UL, it’s seen multiple class marks, locations & exhibitions. What adventure should it embark on next? Drop your Tolkien/UL puns below, ready for the eleventy-first anniversary (in 22 years!). #HobbitDay

⚠️ SERVICE UPDATE ⚠️ The open shelves on all floors of the North Wing are temporarily closed for maintenance. To access these collections, please place a request via iDiscover. We apologise for the inconvenience. 🔗 Updates: https://loom.ly/JAHIoXk