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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]
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.
Facilities such as libraries are provided on all these levels by the university. The Cambridge University Library is the university's largest and primary library. Squire Law Library is the primary library for the university's students of law. Individual colleges each maintain a multi-discipline library designed for each college's respective ...
The coffee pot, as displayed in XCoffee. The Trojan Room coffee pot was a coffee machine located in the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, England.It was the subject of the world's first webcam, created by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky in 1991.
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.
Dr Jessica Pearsall Gardner (born July 1971) is an English academic librarian who has been the University librarian of the University of Cambridge since April 2017. She is the second woman to hold the position, after Anne Jarvis (2009–16). [1] [2] [3] Gardner is a Fellow of Selwyn College. [4]
A "Rename Seeley Library" sticker on a road crossing sign, opposite Bateman Street, in Cambridge. In November 2021, a petition calling on the University of Cambridge to change the name of the library to the History Faculty Library has attracted more than 600 signatures. 28 university societies and organisations have backed the petition, including the Student Union, which is calling on the ...