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Cambridge University Library, referred to within the university as "the University Library" or just "the UL", is the central research library. It holds around 8 million items (including maps and sheet music) and, in contrast with the Bodleian or the British Library, many of its books are available on open shelves. It is one of the six legal ...
The IfM is located in the Alan Reece building on the University's West Cambridge Site [1] in the United Kingdom. Previously, the Institute was located in the former Cambridge University Press building in Mill Lane before relocating to its current building in West Cambridge in June 2009.
The first set of regulations “for the Office of keeping the Library” were then formed in 1582. Little is known of the administration before the late sixteenth century. Before 1577 the University Chaplain had overall responsibility of the Library amongst other duties. [1] 16 potential Chaplain-Librarians have been identified. [2]
The largest academic subdivision of the university are the six schools; Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Technology. The schools are then divided into faculties and departments.
The Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS) at the University of Cambridge houses the university's Faculty of Mathematics, [1] the Isaac Newton Institute, and the Betty and Gordon Moore Library. It is situated on Wilberforce Road , on a site which was formerly a St John's College playing field, and has been leased by St John's to the university ...
The newly refurbished Philosophy Library was renamed the Casimir Lewy Library and opened by Edward Craig on 23 September 2000. [10] Casimir Lewy was a University Reader and Fellow of Trinity College who had been an inspirational teacher. [2] Many of his former students made donations towards the refurbishment of the Library.
The "Faith Collection" will have works from many different religious beliefs, including Judaism, Islam, Christianity and Buddhism. The Library's collections include some of the earliest Qur'an fragments on parchment, a section of devotional works and mystic treatises, a unique copy of the Kitāb al-Tawhīd by al-Māturīdī, and the first known Qur'an commentary written in Persian.
New Museums was the second university departmental site, after the Old Schools (near the Senate House), and the university's first science site. [1] Several important scientific developments of the 19th and 20th centuries were made at the New Museums Site, mainly at the Old Cavendish Laboratory, including the discoveries of the electron by J. J. Thomson (1897) and the neutron by Chadwick (1932 ...