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Novelist James Runcie and broadcaster Katie Thistleton will chair the judging panels for the 2021 and with Cambridge ̽��ֱ��, and submissions are now open.

̽��ֱ�� ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge has been awarded £3m from the AHRC's Capability for Collections Fund to invest in equipment and refurbishment that will enable researchers from across the UK and worldwide to undertake new research into its heritage collections. 

Hot air balloon disasters, scandalous court records and a boom in digital collections all feature as we look back at some of Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Libraries' most popular stories of 2020.

Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Library’s collaboration with the people of Cambridge brings to light the experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city. 

For many people, COVID-19 has meant remote working, but some jobs just have to be done in person. We meet the the technicians, gardeners, porters and others who have been keeping the ̽��ֱ�� and Colleges going during the uniquely challenging circumstances of a global pandemic. 

Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Library has launched a public appeal for help in tracking down two missing notebooks belonging to Charles Darwin - one of which includes his iconic Tree of Life sketch

What happens when you are a librarian without a library? This is exactly what happened with husband and wife Veronica Phillips, Assistant Librarian at the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge Medical Library, and Matthias Ammon, Research Support Librarian at Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Library. Here they discuss their experience of living, and working, through the coronavirus pandemic.  

Have you ever lost access to an important file? Or opened a file only to find that it doesn’t look as it should? These are challenges that collecting institutions also face but at a much larger and complex scale. 

Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Library partners with Google Arts and Culture to open its world-class collections freely to a global audience becoming the first ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge institution to join the platform. 

Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Library's joint project with the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society, continues to reveal the secrets of crime and punishment in the Isle of Ely