BiblioBoard Library now available

BiblioBoard Library is a multi-media database featuring historical content on a wide variety of topics.

Thousands of pages of primary source content (maps, letters, pamphlets, documents, diaries, photos and images), as well as historical books and articles, streaming audio and video content, have been expertly organised into anthologies. The database currently includes over 200 anthologies on a wide variety of topics and will grow to 400 anthologies over the next year.

To access BiblioBoard Library via the web, go to; http://library.liv.ac.uk/record=b3136446~S8

To access BiblioBoard Library via its app, first visit BiblioBoard Library via University of Liverpool’s web access, and create a personal account.  Then, download the free ‘BiblioBoard Library’ app on your tablet or mobile device and log in using the account you've just created.

‘Electronic Enlightenment’ now available

We are pleased to announce that we now have access to ‘Electronic Enlightenment’ from Oxford University Press.

To access Electronic Enlightenment go to:
http://library.liv.ac.uk/record=b3084825~S8

With 63,967 letters and documents and 8,002 correspondents, Electronic Enlightenment is a wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century, discussing everything from religious tolerance to animal rights, vulcanology to classical archeology, economic modelling to celebrity culture.

A searchable and browseable database, offering extensive access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long eighteenth century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Coverage includes letters and documents, document sources such as manuscripts and early printed editions, scholarly annotations, and links to biographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, and other online resources.

British Literary Manuscripts Online, c.1660-1900

We have purchased British Literary Manuscripts Online, c.1660-1900 and access is now available from:

http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/menu/start?prod=BLM1&userGroupName=livuni

or via the Library Catalogue or Metalib.

British Literary Manuscripts Online, c. 1660-1900, presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. Searching is based on tags and descriptive text associated with each manuscript. Images of the complete manuscript can be viewed, manipulated and navigated on screen. Please note that the text of the manuscripts themselves is not searchable.

You can read more about British Literary Manuscripts Online, c.1660-1900 or take a guided tour.