Ourania Karapasia

Metadata Assistant, Special Collections at @UOMLibrary, @TheJohnRylands - Views are my own.

[John Rylands Research Institute and Library @TheJohnRylands]

Journey through Japan in our new online exhibition. Curated by @Soniafavi , the exhibition features maps and travel guides from the Tokugawa (1603-1868) period from our Japanese maps collection. Start your trip to Japan here: https://t.co/2bGgqJKAjn

[Ourania Karapasia @SabbathOK]

@ClareBakerJRL

[John Rylands Research Institute and Library @TheJohnRylands]

Today we're joining in with @ARAScot #Archives30 and sharing a video of our curator @sebsakura discussing her #FavouriteItem: Li Yuan-chia’s 'Rose Tinted Glasses, VFA.6'.

Discover what makes them so special and learn about Li's lasting impact and legacy: https://t.co/rNoIugteUH

[Jessica Smith @JessicaSmithCAA]

A quick blog about our new Elizabeth Gaskell & Charles Dickens digital collection on our shiny image viewer! Manchester Digital Collections: https://t.co/IobcXfOVvk @UoMSpecColl @TheJohnRylands

[John Hodgson @JohnHodgsonUoM]

@TonyFourtoes has found this wonderful newsreel clip of Henry Guppy, Librarian @TheJohnRylands, discussing the famous #papyrus fragment of John's Gospel (P52), in 1935: https://t.co/nYjlwkf7yu.

[UoMCAHAE @UoMCAHAE]

Our wonderful technician @johnpiprani has written a brilliant post about Lockdown, photogrammetry and teaching collections! https://t.co/dJaIkVIMAc

[Cambridge University Library @theUL]

We've launched a public appeal for help in tracking down two missing notebooks belonging to Charles Darwin - one of which includes his iconic Tree of Life sketch.

We are heartbroken by the loss. Can you help? Find out more here: https://t.co/2AxGCBrZJH
#TreeOfLife #DarwinAppeal

[Jessica Smith @JessicaSmithCAA]

The latest post in the Rylands Reflects blog series is up, I wrote about content warnings, and why they're so important. https://t.co/avREYcG5L8 @TheJohnRylands @UoMSpecColl

[John Hodgson @JohnHodgsonUoM]

Staff @TheJohnRylands go the extra mile to promote our collections, even sporting tattoos of images from manuscripts. Great blog by Jamie Robinson:
New Digital Collection; Magic, Monsters and Macabre. https://t.co/oJfM90DB8z via @thejohnrylands

[clare baker💙 @ClareBakerJRL]

Picture This! The University Photographic Collection https://t.co/ky1lOfc5mc via @thejohnrylands

[John Hodgson @JohnHodgsonUoM]

Just acquired a set of these brilliant prints @TheJohnRylands

[clare baker💙 @ClareBakerJRL]

Excellent read and great images!
More than words: Medieval Storytelling https://t.co/bAIeR8409P via @thejohnrylands

[clare baker💙 @ClareBakerJRL]

Medieval Storytelling: Ave Marina https://t.co/FSMbuPd4ox via @thejohnrylands

[clare baker💙 @ClareBakerJRL]

Acrobatic nuns? (No nun emoji?!) What's not to like about this? Medieval Storytelling: Beyond the Borders https://t.co/3M7NrGcxhO via @thejohnrylands

[clare baker💙 @ClareBakerJRL]

Quite like the sound of St Margaret!🐲Medieval Storytelling: From Golden Pages to the Golden Legend https://t.co/wmRNtKN4Su via @thejohnrylands

[Ourania Karapasia @SabbathOK]

@library_carlyr Congrats 🥳🥳😉👍👍👌

[Jessica Smith @JessicaSmithCAA]

Delighted to see The Bow in the Cloud launch on Manchester Digital Collections. First of our collections to carry an accurate content warning. Here's to many more! @UoMLibrary @TheJohnRylands https://t.co/NS19MI6Ito

[Ian Fishwick @uomlib_ian]

As always, images taken in a time of social upheaval (and their captions!) are open to interpretation. This "Charming Canadian Landworker" features in the fascinating "Women in Wartime" album now available in @UoMLibrary's Digital Collections - https://t.co/RB4du7pCGg

[Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @Hamilton_Papers]

Want to learn more about the work of our fabulous imaging team at @JRRIManchester? Lisa's blog is an insight into issues of damage, aesthetics and the role of the photographer in digitising the Hamilton Archive! You can read it here: https://t.co/KLnWdFgFGO