Computerworld

Microsoft moves to digitize books from the British Library

The scanning race has started: Microsoft Corp. announced an agreement today to scan 25 million pages from the British Library’s collection that will eventually be made available on its MSN Book Search ...
insider.si.edu

The Ethiopian manuscript collection in the British Library

The British Library's collection of Ethiopian manuscripts is the richest in Europe, where there are in fact numerous public and private collections of such manuscripts. Three inventory catalogs have ...
Newsweek

Gorgeous Medieval Book Is As Heavy As a 5-Year-Old, But Now It’s Viewable Weightlessly

The British Library has digitized one of the most astounding works of art of the Middle Ages, an illuminated manuscript known as the Sherborne Missal, making it viewable in astonishing detail online.
PR Newswire

British Library and Yuewen Commence Three-Year Collaboration

The three-year collaboration includes a programme for Yuewen writers to see some of the iconic items in the British Library's collection, attend creative workshops, and engage in co-creation digital ...
Computer Weekly

Core British Library services to return for new academic year

British Library chief executive Roly Keating has said that the organisation is aiming to have some key services that remain offline after a cyber attack restored in time for the beginning of the new ...
Digital Journal

Imaginary Cities: How the digital age changes perceptions (Includes first-hand account)

What Michael Takeo Magruder has undertaken with the new exhibition is to take items from the British Library collection and to remix images of historic urban maps into fictional cityscapes, designed ...