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Cambridge University Library

The Cambridge University Library is the centrally-administered library of the University of Cambridge in England. It comprises five separate libraries:
* the University Library main building
* the Medical Library
* the Betty and Gordon Moore Library (Centre for Mathematical Sciences)
* the Central Science Library (formerly the Scientific Periodicals Library)
* the Squire Law Library. The Library was housed in the university's "Old Schools" near Senate House until it outgrew the space there and a new library was built. The large site on the western edge of Cambridge city center is now between Robinson College and Memorial Court, Clare College. The current librarian is Peter Fox.

Architecture

The library was built between 1931 and 1934 under architect Giles Gilbert Scott, who also designed the neighboring Clare Memorial Court (part of Clare College). It bears a marked resemblance to Scott's industrial architecture, a famous example of which is Bankside Power Station (the home of the Tate Modern). Its tower stands 157 feet (48 meter s) tall, six feet shorter than the top of St John's College Chapel and ten feet taller than the peak of King's College Chapel Contemporary reports stated that in opening the building, Chamberlain referred to it as "this magnificent erection", although this phrase is also attributed by tradition to George V . The fictional "Dark Tower" in the novel of that name (attributed to C. S. Lewis) was a replica of this building.

The library has been extended several times. The main building houses the Japanese and Chinese collections in the Aoi pavilion, an extension donated by Tadao Aoi and opened in 1998. There are over 5.5 million books and pamphlets in the library, more than 1.2 million periodicals, many maps, manuscripts, and specialist [ http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections.htmcollections] including that of the Royal Commonwealth Society.

Legal deposit library

As a legal deposit library, it is entitled to claim without charge a copy of all books, journals, printed maps and music published in Britain and Ireland. The library is open to all members of the University of Cambridge (although undergraduates in their first two years and University Assistants other than those who work at the library cannot borrow any books). As is traditional among British university libraries, research postgraduates and academics from other UK universities are allowed reference-only access to the library's collection, and members of the public can apply for access with an academic letter of introduction and on payment of a fee . The library is unique among the UK's legal deposit libraries in keeping a large proportion of its books on open access and in allowing some categories of reader (for example Cambridge academics, postgraduates and final-year undergraduates) to borrow from its collection. It has a well-used "Tea Room" in which full meals, snacks and beverages are available. The library regularly puts on [ http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/ exhibitions] , usually free to the public, and featuring items from its collections.

special collections

As part of its collection of more than 7,000,000 volumes, the library contains a wealth of printed and manuscript material from down the centuries [ http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections.htm] . These include:

* A copy of the Gutenberg Bible from 1455, the earliest European example of a book produced using moveable type.

*The Bible Society library and the library of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK).

*The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection, a store of 140,000 manuscripts and manuscript fragments, mainly in Hebrew and Arabic, from the Ben Ezra synagogue in Cairo.

*E.G. Browne's collection of around 480 codices in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish.

*Papers of Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, Ernest Rutherford, George Gabriel Stokes, Joseph Needham, G. E. Moore and Siegfried Sassoon, among others.

*Archives of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

*Material, such as newsletters, relating to various student societies.

References

*Peter Fox (ed.) "Cambridge University Library: the Great Collections" (Cambridge University Press, 1998) ISBN 0-521-62636-6 (Paperback ISBN 0-521-62647-1)

External links

* [ http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/index.htm Cambridge University Library ]
* [ http://ul-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/ Search the library catalogue ]

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Colleges are not required to enroll students in all subjects, and as such, some choose not to offer subjects such as architecture, art history, and theology, but most do offer close to a full range of subjects. Some colleges remain biased towards certain subjects, for example Churchill College tends to enroll more in science and technical specialties, while others, such as St. Catherine's, aim for a balanced admission and placement of students into majors.

Student expenses (accommodation and food prices) vary widely between colleges. Other institutions maintain a much more informal reputation. For example, students at King's College are left-leaning political views, and students at Robinson College and Churchill College are making attempts to minimize the harmful effects on environment. There are also several theological colleges in Cambridge, which are separate from the University of Cambridge. In number of data educational institutions include: Westcott House, Westminster College and Ridley Hall Theological College, which are less associated with the university, but are members of the Cambridge Ecclesiastical Federation.

The curriculum is an unusual mixture, consisting of lectures organized by university departments, as well as student inspections carried out by colleges. ( Scientific disciplines also include laboratory sessions organized by departments). The relative importance of these teaching methods varies depending on the requirements of the subject. Inspections are typically a weekly one-hour meeting in which small groups of students (usually one to three) meet with a member of the faculty or doctoral student.

Students usually need to do all of them in advance. preparatory tasks to the meeting, as they will be their topic of discussion throughout the meeting. Also at this meeting, issues related to difficulties in mastering and perceiving the lecture material provided to students during the week can be discussed. This task is usually completed in the form of an essay on a topic established by the inspector or in the form of a problem sheet compiled with the help of the lecturer. Depending on the subject and college, students may have between one and four inspections per week. A teacher named William Farish developed the concept of quantitative classification of student work at the University of Cambridge in 1792.

In addition to the 31st college, Cambridge University consists of more than 150 departments, faculties, schools, syndicates and other institutions. Their members are usually also members of one of the colleges, and responsibility for the implementation of the entire academic program of the university is divided between them. A "school" at the University of Cambridge is a broad administrative grouping of related faculties, as well as other departments. Each of them has an elected supervisory body - the school "Council," which consists of representatives of constitutional bodies.

The University of Cambridge consists of six schools: Arts and humanities, Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Humanities and social sciences, Natural Sciences, Technology. Educational and research activities in Cambridge is organized by faculties. Faculties have different organizational substructures that partly reflect their history and partly their operational needs. The structure of faculties may include a number of departments and other institutions. In addition, a small number of organizations, the so-called "Syndicates" (for example, the Cambridge Assessment Board, the University News Service and the University Library) are responsible for conducting educational process and research.

Threemthread college(English) Trinity College, Holy Trinity College) is one of 31 colleges at the University of Cambridge. This college has more members (counting students and teachers together) than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford. The college has a very solid reputation; many members of the British royal family were its graduates: king Edward VII, King George VI, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Charles, Prince of Wales. Trinity College has a very strong academic tradition and its staff have received 31 Nobel Prizes (out of 83 awards received by all university staff). Its famous alumni include Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, Lord Byron, Bertrand Russell and Vladimir Nabokov.

Library, laboratory, observatory, museum of the University of Cambridge

Cambridge University Library(English) Cambridge University Library listen)) is the centralized academic and research library of the University of Cambridge, consisting of the university's main library and 15 affiliated libraries. The University of Cambridge has 114 libraries, the largest of which is the University Library, also known internally as "the UL". Among its approximately 8 million storage units are geographical maps, notes, manuscripts and drawings. Unlike Oxford's Bodleian Library or the British Library, many of the library's books are available on open shelves. As one of the five legal deposit recipients, the library has the right to request any book published in Great Britain and Ireland. Every year its funds are replenished by 120,000 books, not counting donations. Total number There are about 15 million books at the university. The library is open to all members of the university. In June 2010, the university received a donation of £1,500,000 to digitize part of its collections and make it freely available through the Cambridge Digital Library website.

Cambridge Observatory- an astronomical observatory founded in 1823 at the University of Cambridge. Since 1972 it has been part of the Institute of Astronomy. The old observatory building houses a library. From 1990 to 1998, the Royal Greenwich Observatory was based in Cambridge at Greenwich House, just north of the Cambridge Observatory. In 1912, the Solar Physics Observatory was moved to Cambridge. Observatory scientists took part in the search for the planet Neptune.

Cavendish Laboratory- Department of Physics, University of Cambridge. The laboratory was created in 1874 as the world's first educational and scientific laboratory, where students could both study and conduct research together with university staff. Initially it was located in the very center of Cambridge on Free School Street. In the 1970s, a new complex of buildings for the laboratory was built on the western outskirts of the city.

In the laboratory there is a traditional honorary title Cavendish Professor, worn by one of the laboratory's professors. The laboratory's motto is a phrase uttered by the first director of the Cavendish Laboratory, James Maxwell: “I never discourage a person from trying this or that experiment; if he doesn’t find what he’s looking for, he might discover something else.” As of 2012, 29 laboratory researchers have received Nobel Prizes.

During World War II, the laboratory conducted research on projects related to nuclear weapons.

Collections and museums of the University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge operates eight museums of art, culture and science, as well as a botanical garden: the Fitzwilliam Museum - a museum of art and antiquity; Kettle Yard - contemporary art gallery; the Museum of Archeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge presents collections of local antiquities, as well as archaeological and ethnographic exhibits from around the world; Cambridge University Zoological Museum; Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge; Whipple Museum of History and Science; The Sedgwick Museum of Geosciences is the university's Geological Museum; The Scott Polar Research Institute includes the Polar Museum, dedicated to the study of the Arctic and Antarctic; Cambridge University Botanic Garden is a university botanic garden established in 1831.

Women's Education at Cambridge University

Initially, only male students could be enrolled at the university. The first colleges for women were Girton, founded by Emily Davies in 1869, Newnham, founded by Anne Clough and Henry Sidgwick in 1872, followed by the establishment of Hughes Hall in 1885 (first established by Elizabeth Phillips Hughes as Cambridge Teachers College for women), New Hall in 1954 (later renamed Murray Edwards College) and Lucy Cavendish College, founded in 1965. The first female students were examined in 1882, but attempts to make women full members of the university suffered They suffered a collapse until 1948.

Women were allowed to attend courses, take exams, and, from 1881, receive their results in writing; for a brief period at the turn of the 20th century, women were even allowed to obtain the same degree from the University of Dublin. Since 1921, women began to be awarded diplomas that “conferred upon their holder the Degree of Bachelor of Arts.” However, due to the fact that they were "completely not recognized as Bachelors of Arts degrees", they were excluded from the leadership of the university. Since the time students began to enroll in college, and since the newly established colleges were still closed to women, they found that access to colleges specifically founded for women was also limited.

Despite this, starting with Churchill College, all male-only colleges began admitting women between 1972 and 1988. One women's college, Girton, even began admitting male students in 1979, but other women's colleges did not follow suit. As a result of St Hilda's College, Oxford, lifting its ban on accepting male students in 2008, Cambridge remains the only educational institution in the UK whose colleges still refuse to admit men (there are only three such institutions in Cambridge: Newnham, Murray Edwards College and Lucy Cavendish College). In 2004-2005 academic year The gender ratio of university students, including graduate students, was 52% men and 48% women.

Myths, legends, traditions of the University of Cambridge

As a university with a long and rich history, a huge number of different legends and myths have been created within its walls. Of course, most of them are not true, however, they were actively disseminated and continue to be disseminated by new generations of students, as well as guides.

A tradition that has been discontinued is the "wooden spoon" tradition, whereby a given "prize" is awarded to the student who receives the lowest passing score on the final Tripos mathematics exams. The last such spoon was awarded to Cuthbert Leprier Holthouse in 1909, an oarsman of the Lady Margaret Boat Club, which was affiliated with St. John's College. This spoon was a meter long, and its handle was made of an oar. It can currently be seen from the Meja Combination Room at St. John's College. Since 1909, results began to be published in alphabetical order, by class, and not in order of points scored. This made it difficult to determine the winner of the wooden spoon (unless that person was in third grade), and so the practice was discontinued.

Every Christmas Eve, BBC radio and television broadcast the Festival of the Nine Lessons, as well as Carols (special Christmas songs), performed by the King's College Cambridge Choir. Since the broadcast first appeared on the radio in 1928 (although the festival began in 1918), the radio broadcast has become a true national Christmas tradition. These radio programs are broadcast worldwide by the BBC World Service and are also broadcast through an amalgamation of hundreds of other radio stations in the United States. The first television broadcast of the festival took place in 1954.

Interestingfacts about Cambridge

1. Princes Charles and Edward graduated from Cambridge. When Prince Charles studied here, he had a bodyguard accompany him to all classes.

2. For seven centuries (until 1909), the university had a tradition of giving wooden spoons to students with the worst academic performance.

3. Each faculty has a scarf of its own color, as well as sweatshirts, T-shirts and bags for textbooks and notebooks.

4. The most popular sport here is rowing.

5. Among the people connected in one way or another with the University of Cambridge, there are 88 Nobel laureates - according to this indicator, it ranks one of the first places among higher educational institutions in the world.

6. Lord Byron loved animals very much. While studying at Cambridge, he was faced with a ban on keeping dogs in rooms and decided to get a bear cub. Since bears were not mentioned in the ban, the university could not do anything about this fact. Throughout his life, Byron's pets included a fox, a badger, a crocodile, an eagle, a crane and a heron.

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“Our library preserves evidence of the birth of great ideas and world-class discoveries that have occurred over the past two millennia,” said librarian Anne Jarvis. - And now we want all this to become available to everyone. Through the Internet, people from any corner of the world will be able to visit our library. Our project aims not only to make all our collections accessible, it will begin a worldwide dialogue about these books. With just one click, students or scholars who study, for example, theology, politics, history, physics, medieval languages ​​or the history of medicine can immerse themselves in the worlds of Mediterranean Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities of the 11th century or the time of Isaac Newton and his famous contemporaries "

Cambridge was able to implement the project thanks to a grant from Dr. Leonard Polonsky amounting to 1.5 million pounds. With this money, the library is going to purchase the necessary equipment to digitize its books. The first collections will be called “The Foundations of Faith” and “The Foundations of Science”. Cambridge staff hope that these collections will become “living libraries” that will constantly grow and develop.

Religion Foundation
Cambridge's religion-related collection includes the world's oldest copy of the Koran and an 8th-century copy of Surah Al-Anfal (a sura denoting a chapter of the Koran). It also houses the world's largest collection of Jewish Genizah manuscripts (the Genizah housed Torah scrolls, sacred texts, ritual objects, etc. that had fallen into disrepair), including the Taylor-Schechter collection from the Cairo Genizah, which contains 193,000 fragments. In terms of significance, they are on a par with the famous Qumran manuscripts.

Among Christian treasures, the first place is occupied by the collection of manuscripts, which includes the Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis. The manuscript dates back to the 5th century and is considered one of the oldest and main manuscripts of the New Testament in Greek and Latin languages. The same collection includes the Book of Deere - a Latin evangelium of the 10th century with commentaries of the 12th century in Latin, Old Irish and Gaelic, and the Book of Cern - an Anglo-Saxon prayer book of the 9th century.

Science Foundation
In terms of the history of science, Cambridge will first digitize Newton's collection of papers, which include copies of his seminal work, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, lectures he gave as Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, and drafts of his Optics or a Treatise on Reflections , refractions, bendings and colors of light." Cambridge also preserves the works of John Flamsteed (1646−1719) and Edmund Halley (1656−1742), Newton's contemporaries, with whom the latter maintained an active correspondence.

If the project is successful (and other sponsors will be needed for its development), the Cambridge Library staff plans to digitize the works of Charles Darwin, physicists James Muswell and Stephen Hawking, as well as other collections related to the humanities and social sciences.

“Religion and science are the two cornerstones of our project, fundamental in our attempt to understand the world and our place in it. Thanks to Dr. Polonsky, we are at the beginning of an amazing journey that will further lead us into the world of digital libraries. We hope that other people will support us and we will create the world's largest digital library, which will be available to anyone in the world in the literal sense of the word,” concluded Jervis.

Date: 2010-02-26

When we talk about the oldest or largest libraries in the world, it is impossible not to mention the library of the University of Cambridge in the UK.

The fact is that the University of Cambridge - one of the oldest educational institutions in the world - dating back to 1209, consists of separate colleges. Today there are thirty-one such colleges in Cambridge. And naturally, each college has its own library. However, the greatest interest is the Trinity College library. It is interesting not only for its collection of volumes. The Cambridge Central Library is also of architectural value. After all, it was built by the great English architect Christopher Rehm in 1676 - 1684. In the Trinity College library, even bookcases made by carver Greenlyn Gibbone are of particular value.

Cambridge students joke that once you enter the Cambridge Central Library, you can stay there forever, it is so big. Well, as they say, there is some truth in every joke. The library building occupies an entire block. But this, as it turned out, is not enough. Therefore, construction of a new building is underway.

The collection of books at Cambridge University is incalculable. In 1971, the Cambridge library had 3 million volumes; today this figure has certainly increased, as the library's collections are constantly replenished. Both modern editions and ancient manuscripts are stored here. Some treasures of the Cambridge Library not only arouse increased interest, but even provoke rumors.

For quite a long time, the peace of the reading public was disturbed by rumors that the Cambridge Library allegedly kept a collection of pornographic literature. Oddly enough, these rumors were confirmed not so long ago. A representative of the library management confirmed the presence in the Cambridge book depositories of a collection of erotic and pornographic literature, represented by 200 thousand illustrated volumes. Moreover, the beginning of this collection was by no means laid in the era of modern glossy magazines “for adults”, but in prim Victorian times, when even the legs of a piano were considered an indecent detail and had to be covered.

Why is such literature needed in the library of a serious university? After all, students will be distracted. “They won’t!” - they assured the library management, because these copies are not available to students. It turns out that only scientists have access to frivolous publications. And politicians. What the latter are for is unclear. But the British took it for granted, so it was necessary.

However, if the historical and scientific value of such a collection of literature seems dubious to many, the importance of other treasures of the Cambridge library is undeniable. Among the most valuable publications kept in Cambridge are, for example, the Gutenberg Bible and the first edition of Homer's poems. In total, Cambridge has 4,650 books that are over half a millennium old. Currently, work is underway to digitize ancient publications. This expensive project, which costs about $480,000, is expected to take about five years to complete. Well, for first-print books that have already lived for ages, this is not a long time at all.

University campus, which includes faculties, colleges, dormitories, scientific centers and institutes, occupies a significant part of the city. Once at the University of Cambridge, the visitor can walk spellbound from one ancient building to another, enjoying the general atmosphere of a medieval university. In this sense, Cambridge University, with its numerous parks, lawns, fields and rivers, is in no way inferior to Oxford University. The University of Cambridge has 114 libraries. Central is the university library, which houses more than 8 million books and manuscripts on different languages peace. The university library is the country's National Library, which means it receives a copy of every book published in the UK. Unlike the British or Bodleian Libraries, most of the books in the Cambridge University Library are freely available and can be borrowed. There are also libraries in every college and department. Many of them are open around the clock, which makes life much easier for students while preparing for the session. There are 8 major museums in Cambridge. The Fitzwilliam Museum with its collections of ancient and modern art is of greatest interest. In addition, the city contains museums of Archeology and Anthropology, Zoology, History of Science, the Scott Polar Museum and a beautiful botanical garden.

Cambridge has several dozen clubs, associations and societies that promote the integration of students into the life of the university. Perhaps there is no area that the activities of these societies do not cover: here you can take part in archaeological excavations, go hiking, go caving, play poker, study the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, archery and much, much more. Participation in club activities is an integral part of every student’s life.

Huge role in student life Cambridge plays sport. There is probably no sport that cannot be played at this university. For this purpose, almost every college has its own training fields for tennis, cricket, rugby and football, gyms, boats, punts, kayaks and much more. Every college has sports teams, intra-university sports competitions and championships are held. The central event of the sports year is the so-called. Varsity matches in which Cambridge competes with its eternal rival, Oxford. In order to be on time for classes, which often take place at different ends of the university campus, many students use such a free and environmentally friendly form of transport as a bicycle.

It is no secret that for many applicants who are leaving their homeland for a long time for the first time, the real test is the experience of living outside their native environment. Numerous national societies help Cambridge students with this. For people from the former Soviet Union There are Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh and Estonian student societies in Cambridge. Leading politicians, people of science and art are invited to the weekly events of these associations, parties are held, language classes and films are shown. The Russian and Ukrainian societies are especially active. Themed parties and discos are also held weekly in each college. The winter and summer balls held several times a year usually cause special excitement. Cambridge has an Orthodox and catholic church, as well as a synagogue and a mosque. In addition, each college has Anglican churches and chapels. Cambridge campus, museums and libraries.

Student accommodation

• Cambridge colleges guarantee college-owned accommodation for three years, and most provide for fourth-year students too.
• The college is more than just a hall of residence: it’s for living, studying and socializing.
• The college communities include undergraduate and research students, teachers and lecturers.

Student Career Development

A Cambridge degree is an excellent tool for subsequent employment in the most prestigious branches of science and business. University graduates are helped in this by a special service Center, The Careers Service, where advertisements about vacancies, internships and possible employment are posted. At the Center you can find special publications and manuals on writing a resume, filling out application forms, finding a job, etc. The center also provides special courses and classes to help students pursue careers. A Cambridge degree also opens the door to employment upon returning home. Because academic terms are short and university studies are very intensive, Cambridge University strongly discourages combining study and work.

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