Trinity College Library, Cambridge

Last week, Trinity Master Sir Gregory Winter was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. To celebrate, a small exhibition about Nobel Laureates from Trinity is currently on display in the Wren Library. There have been quite a few over the years, including Sir James Mirrlees, pictured here while receiving his Prize from the King of Sweden in 1996. Don't miss out! #ExTRINordinary

Don't know how to navigate our collection and find what you need? Confused by the various catalogues in the Cambridge Libraries system? Check this out: a 3-minute video on how to use Trinity Library's catalogue, and become a library search wizard! https://youtu.be/cGXl4eC5XqA

Revolution time! The "switch on" is happening today: two self-issue kiosks are now in place in the catalogue room. There might be glitches while we all get used to the new system, but there will always be a staff member available to assist you if needed. Happy self-issuing! :-)

"Julian Trevelyan: The Artist and his World" will be on display at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester from the 6th October to the 10th February 2019. This first comprehensive retrospective of the artist and Trinity alumnus, who was one of the most important Surrealist painters in the British arts landscape, will feature also documents from the #WrenLibrary archives. https://pallant.org.uk/…/julian-trevely an-the-artist-and-h…/

#NationalPoetryDay "Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, ... Without the meed of some melodious tear." John Milton, 1637, on the death of his friend Edward King. Milton's poetry notebook is fully digitised and available at http://trin-sites-pub.trin.cam.ac.uk/jame s/viewpage.php… #WrenDigitalLibrary
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On 3 October 2018 it was announced that Sir Gregory Winter, Master of Trinity College, has been jointly awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Professors Frances Arnold and George Smith, for his pioneering work in using phage display for the directed evolution of antibodies, with the aim of producing new pharmaceuticals. The Nobel Assembly said: ‘The 2018 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry have taken control of evolution and used it for purposes that bring the greatest benefit to humankind. [ 484 more words ] https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wo rdpress.com/…/nob…/

You said, we did: new features in the students library, following recommendations from the feedback survey we ran last June. Including a sneak peek at the brand new self-issue kiosks that will be switched on next Monday. More improvements to come in the next few weeks...stay tuned!

It is now 25 years since Andrew Wiles provided the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. A celebration of the event was held at the Isaac Newton Institute on 1 October 2018, with lectures (all now available online) by Sir Andrew Wiles, Jack Thorne and John Coates. The Wren Library provided a historical context for the day by displaying the first appearance of Fermat’s Last Theorem in print. [ 298 more words ] https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wo rdpress.com/…/fer…/

The #WrenLibrary re-opens today! This week, we are exhibiting both the Trinity Apocalypse (R.16.2: http://ow.ly/5cGH50jisqB) and the Canterbury Psalter (R.17.1: http://trin-sites-pub.trin.cam.ac.uk/jame s/viewpage.php…). It is quite unusual for us to have both these manuscripts on display at the same time, so make sure you pop by and view them. Digitisation is great, but a real-life encounter with medieval manuscripts is a different experience altogether.

It's the start of term! Yesterday and today, at #TrinityCam, students have been coming to the #WrenLibrary to sign the Admissions Book. Our special treat for them is Newton's own signature from the Admissions Book he signed when he was admitted to Trinity. #ExTRINordinary

Invest 30 minutes of your time now, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble later! Book a library induction tour (Tuesday and Wednesday this week) at https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/librarytour. We will cover everything you need to know about finding your way around the library, searching and, most importantly, finding. :-) See you there!

Almost forgotten today, the English polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1859) was lauded by his contemporaries as a ‘prodigy of universal genius’ and an ‘ideal of a University man’. Having been privately educated at Bath, reading Xenophon and Virgil and solving equations from the age of 10, Ellis went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1836, where he became a pupil of George Peacock and William Hopkins. [ 157 more words ] https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wo rdpress.com/…/a-m…/

The #WrenLibrary will be closed for two days at the beginning of next week. Back to normal on Wednesday. Want to know why? More will be revealed next week. ;-) Photo by @srawlinsonphoto

Last week, the Philosophical Nachlass of Ludwig Wittgenstein was included in the UNESCO UK Memory of the World Register (https://www.unesco.org.uk/…/memory-of- the-world-inscriptio…/); one of only seven new inscriptions this year. Feeling like having a look at it? You can! It is digitised and available online from https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/…/modern-man uscrip…/wittgenstein/ #WrenDigitalLibrary

Reminder - this coming Friday! Places still available.

Did you enjoy the #CreweCollection timeline last week? Were you intrigued by the history behind this collection? If you wish to know more, we have created a family tree, and a map showing how the collection travelled, over time, from its original location at Fryston Hall all the way to the #WrenLibrary. You can find both, together with the timeline, at http://ow.ly/6bHm50j4Ex3.

Last week, we were truly blown away by your fantastic response to the digitisation of Ramanujan's papers. You are all most welcome! And libraries are indeed amazing. :-) To thank you, here is a post published when the film was released: http://ow.ly/gKNZ50j4Dpi, and an interview with Prof. Bollobás on the significance of Ramanujan's work (courtesy of BBC Look East): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGFK7rhpb Wk

James Joyce's Ulysses was banned in the US and in Britain since its publication in the 1920s and for most of the 1930s, with the United States Postal Service burning copies sent in the mail. For #BannedBooksWeek, here is the first edition in French (1929), bound by Jean de Gonet, owned by the #WrenLibrary as part of the #KesslerCollection.