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  • 4 Dec 2009

    Empire State Building Goes Blue

    Tonight, through December 6, the Empire State Building will light up blue for Cambridge’s 800th Anniversary! Keep an eye out. The schedule can be found here >> Plenty of folks here in NY will be celebrating, so raise a glass, everyone!

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  • 4 Sep 2009

    The Joy of Reading on the Train

    The only thing I miss now that I’m biking to work: reading on the train. In other words, I’ve lost close to an hour of reading time per day! The New York Times interviewed a slew of people about their train reading habits.

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  • 19 Aug 2009

    More challenges to Google Books

    It’s not over yet! The New York Times today reported on a new challenge to Google’s book scanning project.

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  • 7 Aug 2009

    Print-on-demand brings library collection off the stacks

    Two preliminary essays to On the Origin of Species. Family reminiscences of Jane Austen gathered by her nephew. The correspondence between Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. Charles Dickens, as a journalist, reporting from America. The Cambridge Library Collection is an exciting new collaboration between the library of the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Press, the world’s oldest publisher.

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  • 31 Jul 2009

    Kittens with Mittens

    It’s Friday. In case that’s not enough to cheer you up, here’s an otherwise unrelated cat trying to walk with mittens on!

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  • 28 Jul 2009

    PW On Cambridge 425!

    Publisher’s Weekly this week features an article about 425 years of evolution at Cambridge University Press.

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  • 28 Jul 2009

    Interns Blog: Grammar Nazism vs. Common Sense

    Now, I’ve been called a Grammar Nazi many times over, but I do believe there is a clear difference between a person truly deserving of that unfortunate title and others, like myself, who believe that some rules should just be common knowledge for native speakers of the English language.

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  • 24 Jul 2009

    Mind-boggling physics–printed and bound

    In the DNA of my family the science gene went astray. My father was a civil engineer who designed suburban roadways, but all I inherited from him was an excellent sense of direction. My cousin teaches high school science but I’ve a sneaking suspicion it’s because he likes to blow things up. I had somehow managed to avoid the nitty-gritty of most things scientific until I came to work for Cambridge.

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  • 20 Mar 2015

    Goodbyeee!

    From: Cambridge Library Collection Blog
    Alas, and thrice woe (from my point of view anyway), this is my last ever blog for the Cambridge Library Collection. I now slip away into the sunset, ...
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  • 16 Mar 2015

    Spring and Port Wine

    From: Cambridge Library Collection Blog
     … is the name of a play and then a film about Bolton, in northern England. However, I’m borrowing the title because I’ve just spent a few spri...
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