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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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Digitisation
The Wales window, Birmingham, Alabama
Fifty years ago on the 15th of September 1963, the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb at the 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, that …
A profusion of tales to entertain, amuse, educate and disturb
The Library’s pre-1965 collection of English adult fiction has recently been catalogued in its entirety. The collection comprises over 50,000 books never previously catalogued. Formerly …
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World War One : Family connections
In the early stages of the World War 1914-1918 and the Welsh Experience project, which is a JISC funded project to create an on-line archive …
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The Fine Bindings Collection
Some years ago the Library established a Fine Bindings Collection, formed initially by transferring rare, fragile or interesting bindings found elsewhere in the printed collections. …
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Snap Happy!
As I browse through the Library’s collection online, the website, the Digital Mirror and Facebook page, one collection always catches my attention. The Geoff Charles …
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Tagged flickr, Geoff Chalres, photos, twitter
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New Opportunities for Welsh Businesses
Finance Minister Jane Hutt will today visit DigiDo at The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth to learn more about the European Regional Development Funded project. …
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Rumours of a Papal Abdication
The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI caused a frisson of curiosity and wonder. Comments abounded in the press about the fact that the previous resignation …
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Boston Manuscript: creating the METS document
After the Imaging officers have completed scanning the manuscript it is necessary to create a METS document. METS is a data structure for describing and …
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World War 1914-1918 and the Welsh Experience Digitisation Project: 12 months in
In January 2012 the National Library in partnership with Aberystwyth University, Bangor University, Cardiff University, Swansea University, the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, the …
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Tracking the Boston Manuscript
I have just completed the work of tracking the Boston Manuscript of the Laws of Hywel Dda (NLW MS 24029A) as part of the digitisation …