Entries from The Caird Library Blog tagged with 'Electronic resources'
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive
The NMM Archive and Library is pleased to announce the acquistion of the full archive of 'The Illustrated London News Historical Archive', from 1842-2003. With its debut in 1842 the Illustrated London News became the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper,...
Shipindex.org
Shipindex.org is an online resource that gives references to ships in books, magazines and other websites. It's been around for a few years so you may have come across it before, but what you may not know is that it's...
Tell us what you think about electronic resources
Have you used electronic resources here at the Caird Library, or indeed at any London museum archive or library? Here at the library we've been trying to increase the amount of information that you can access online, and over the...
Royal Marines online
The National Archives have just launched a new collection of digitised records: the service registers of around 110,000 Royal Marines who joined between 1842 and 1936. The collection allows you to search for ordinary seamen (not officers) by name, register...
Early English Books online and Ancestry Library
Another update on the electronic resources front: we've added another two new resources to our collection since I wrote my last library update back in May. Access is available from the Caird Library and E-Library here at the museum. (I've...
Library update
Well, it seems like it's been a little while since our last post, but there's certainly been no shortage of things happening here at the Caird Library.The first weekend of May was the Who Do You Think You Are? Live...
New! Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History is a just-published encyclopedia about all things ships and the sea. It's edited by John Hattendorf of the U.S. Naval War College (who also publish the Naval War College Review), and contains over 940...
Lloyd's List update
In one of my first posts on this blog I asked if the library still needed its current print subscription to Lloyd's List. One person commented to say that yes, we did, because it was an important part of being...
Guardian digital archive free in November
I got some exciting news last month - both the Guardian and the Economist have been busy digitising their backfiles, and are about to launch online archives. The Guardian Digital Archive includes the Guardian from 1821-1975 (1976-2003 will be added...
Feed Subscription
If you use an RSS reader, you can subscribe to a feed of all future entries tagged 'Electronic resources'. [What is this?]
