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A blog about the work and collections of the National Library of Wales.
Due to the more personal nature of blogs it is the Library's policy to publish postings in the original language only. An equal number of blog posts are published in both Welsh and English, but they are not the same postings. For a translation of the blog readers may wish to try facilities such as Google Translate.
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The Researcher of Tomorrow and the end of the Europeana Libraries Project
I’ve just come back from The European Library’s Researcher of Tomorrow conference which took place in Madrid. The conference covered a number of aspects of the challenges and opportunities facing libraries with the advancement of digitisation and the associated development … Continue reading
Wales in Europe
Exciting news! 10,000 images from the John Thomas and Welsh Landscape collections can now be searched and viewed via the newly re-launched European Library website. Thanks to our work with the Europeana Libraries project we are one of 19 leading … Continue reading
One Million Hits on Flickr!
I’m happy to announce that the NLW’s Flickr page has today received its millionth hit! Thanks to all those who’ve taken advantage of the opportunity to view some of the Library’s most important photographic collections. Thanks also to those who’ve … Continue reading
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Digitising the First World War
Nearly a century ago in 1914 the Great War began. It was a war which changed the world. And in my current role I am helping to digitise resources which were created during that time as part of a project … Continue reading
John Thomas’s family portraits
One of the bonuses of working on a digitisation project such as the Europeana Libraries Project is the opportunity it provides to reacquaint yourself with some of the library’s collections. As part of my first job here at the Library, … Continue reading
Historical Newspapers and Journals Project Update
Here’s a quick update on one of our most ambitious and challenging digitisation projects to date. For those new to this, the project aims to digitise 2 million pages of the Library’s paper holdings of out-of-copyright newspapers and periodicals – … Continue reading
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