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When you’re a Legal Deposit library holding more than eight million books and manuscripts, one million maps, and have been entitled to a copy of every UK publication since 1710, space can be at something of a premium.

An exhibition offering a rare chance to see some of Jane Austen's letters has opened at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library.  ̽»¨Ö±²¥correspondence on display is held by three different Cambridge collections. This is the first time that the letters have been shown together.

Dr Jessica Gardner has been revealed as the new Librarian of Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library – becoming the second female in the history of the institution to hold the role.

̽»¨Ö±²¥Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visited the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge on Tuesday 29 November to mark the Fitzwilliam Museum’s bicentenary and to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library

Why does one of the world’s great research libraries have ‘ectoplasm’, a spirit trumpet and beard hair posted to Charles Darwin among its eight million books, manuscripts and digital collections?

Shakespeare's 'First Folio', Dante's Divine Comedy, and fragments of Homer's Odyssey from the second century CE, are among the objects in our final film celebrating Lines of Thought at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library.

A hand-coloured copy of Vesalius’ 1543 Epitome – one of the most influential works in western medicine – and the first written record of a dissection carried out in England are among the objects in our latest film celebrating Lines of Thought at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library.

Darwin’s stuffed pigeons, the letter which first coined the term ‘genetics’ and a paper by Crick and Watson which helped decode DNA all feature in the latest film to celebrate Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library’s 600th anniversary. 

Some of the world’s most important religious texts are currently on display in Cambridge as part of Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library’s 600th anniversary exhibition – Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World.

̽»¨Ö±²¥most important publication in the history of science – Isaac Newton’s own annotated copy of Principia Mathematica – and other seminal works by Copernicus, Einstein and Stephen Hawking, feature in a new film, released today, celebrating 600 years of Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library.