A lesser-known fact about the Library is that we house several “special” collections. Special collections has to be a phrase dreamt up by a librarian. It translates broadly to “fun and interesting, often specialised stuff that doesn’t fit on the …
We are excited to begin the new year by presenting you with the archives of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) covering 1482-2010.
Funded by research funding from our success in the last Research Excellence Framework exercise, this archive of historical geography is extensive and includes Maps, Atlases, Charts and Plans; Expedition Reports; Fieldnotes, Correspondence and Diaries; Grey Literature; Photographs, Artwork and Illustrations; Journal Manuscripts; Photographs; Proceedings, Lectures, and Ephemera. The collection spans a wide variety of interdisciplinary research areas, and supports educational needs in Anthropology, Area Studies; Cartography and Visualizations, Colonial, Post-Colonial & Decolonisation Studies; Development Studies; Environmental Degradation; Historical & Cultural Geography; Historical Sociology; Human Geography; Identity, Gender & Ethnic Studies; Geology; International Relations; Trade and Commerce, and Law and Policy relating to Colonization and over a hundred special collections.
From Admiralty maps of the oceans to historical maps showing translucent overlaid layers from different time periods overlaid on the same map, maps of the agricultural census and land coverage maps showing the distribution of geology, biogeography and hydrology there are so many maps you can access, annotate, overlay, manipulate and download sections from online through our Digimap service.
What makes something special? Reaching for the Oxford English Dictionary, one promising definition it offers is: “Distinctive in some way; distinguished from others of the kind by a particular quality or feature; particular, specific.” Oxford English Dictionary Online (n.d.) From …
Have you downloaded any data from the Digimap OSNI (Northern Ireland Ordnance Survey) collection? If so, Digimap want it back! Or at least, they want you to delete it all by 31 July 2020 because this is when their license …
Digimap has launched a pilot collection of data that they are trying out and evaluating against demand. Just login to Digimap, agree to the licence conditions and you are free to use the new data up until 31st July 2020. …
A new, free world map is now available. Its equal area projection shows countries and continents at their true size relative to one another. On this map, Africa is accurately shown to be 14 times the size of Greenland, far …
Do you use Digimap? We’re pleased to announce a new schedule of weekly webinars starting next week that offer you the opportunity to learn about different aspects of using Digimap. They are presented by Digimap’s Geo support team and give you …
Marine Digimap has just joined our growing online collection of digital cartography resources. This online tool allows registered users to view, annotate, save and print hydrospatial vector marine maps and Admiralty charts for waters around the UK. These marine maps …
We regret that due to planned staff absence, the Map Library will be closed on Tuesday 31st January and again for a week from 20-26 February. Please plan your large format scanning and digital mapping work around these times.
