Amelie Roper (@amelieroper.bsky.social)

Not using this account regularly. Find me at Head of Research at Cambridge University Library (@theUL).

[Amelie Roper (@amelieroper.bsky.social) @amelieroper]

Delighted to be supporting @samoore_ and others with this new @theUL project. Thank you to @ahrcpress, @wellcometrust and @UKRI_News RED find for making this possible.

[Cambridge University Library @theUL]

@theUL has been awarded over £800,000 to investigate ways to encourage and embed innovative open research practices within humanities and social science (HSS) disciplines: https://t.co/r4XWTwhR94

[Amelie Roper (@amelieroper.bsky.social) @amelieroper]

Really delighted that @theUL is one of the winners of this funding call, for our project ArCH - the AI for Cultural Heritage Hub. Working with @CamGLAMresearch, @suz_paul, @CamDigLib and others.

[ai@cam @ai_cam_mission]

🚨 New AI-deas winners 🚨

We're excited to announce our two winning projects for our second AI-deas cohort - this time within the #education & #cultural heritage sectors.

🖼️ AI for Cultural Heritage
📚 Opportunities & risks of AI in supporting evaluation
https://t.co/N8x0Idd9Ch

[Amelie Roper (@amelieroper.bsky.social) @amelieroper]

Just manage to squeeze this in before the holiday break: a reflection on the first 18 months of @UL's new Research Institute (ULRI). It's been - and continues to be - such a privilege to work on this with @CamUniLibrarian, @CamLibResearch, @orietta_darold and others.

[Cambridge University Library @theUL]

The ground-breaking research centre setting the agenda for collections-led research: join us in celebrating the first 18 months of the University Library Research Institute (ULRI): https://t.co/jETqWQzbDR 🧵

[Melonie Schmierer-Lee @m_schmierer]

The Illustrated Cairo Genizah is now available to buy in the bookshop @theUL!

[Cambridge University Library @theUL]

Jeanne-Marie Dolmetsch left a significant collection of music books and manuscripts to Cambridge University Library, along with the archive of the musician and instrument-maker Arnold Dolmetsch and the Dolmetsch family.
https://t.co/nYJEMRFZch

@MusiCB3t @YoursCambridge

[Amelie Roper (@amelieroper.bsky.social) @amelieroper]

Come and join @theUL! Closing date 20/10/24

[Dr Mark Purcell @CamLibResearch]

Please retweet - a marvellous job for the right person - Senior Associate Director and Head of Development for one of the world’s great libraries, @theUL in Cambridge. Closes on 20 October, so plenty of time to apply. https://t.co/9GXvi98mbb

[Amelie Roper (@amelieroper.bsky.social) @amelieroper]

@liamsims Wonderful news! Congratulations! Celebrate well!

[Amelie Roper (@amelieroper.bsky.social) @amelieroper]

Fab advisory board meeting today for the @ahrcpress-funded @HiPS_Project - new perspectives on @theUL's collections and new friends made!

[Amelie Roper (@amelieroper.bsky.social) @amelieroper]

Launching @theUL's new University Library Research Institute's Professional Development Programme for staff with a fabulous AI 101 delivered by the equally fabulous @NadiaAbouayoub

[Amelie Roper (@amelieroper.bsky.social) @amelieroper]

@liamsims Well done Liam - an excellent paper!

[Baskerville Punches @Baskerville1707]

ULRI showcasing event was a blast @theUL with @amelieroper @liamsims @mmpawlikowski thanks to @markboxphoto for the video and colleagues @MyBCU for #3d prints of the #typography punches. #imaginglab

[Amelie Roper (@amelieroper.bsky.social) @amelieroper]

The University Library Research Institute (ULRI) celebrated its first birthday yesterday with a Research Showcase celebrating our collections-led research. Thank you to all who came and celebrated with us and those who were with us in spirit! https://t.co/7reQAdQ4xj

[Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristinesr]

Sparkling company (manuscript and human) at this evenings @theUL Research Institute first anniversary event ✨

#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #ULRI #CULconservation

[Maciej M Pawlikowski @mmpawlikowski]

Do you have DAMS experience, copyright and licensing knowledge? We are looking for Picture Library Manager to join our team in Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory @theUL #jobpost #glam

https://t.co/8Qvk8irkvt

[Matt Greenhall @GreenhallMatt]

It’s wonderful to join colleagues from across the research community @wellcometrust to celebrate the role of libraries in research and the results of the @ahrcpress @RL_UK Research Engagement Programme https://t.co/GHvMX7wIGf

[Amelie Roper (@amelieroper.bsky.social) @amelieroper]

Super excited to be heading to @wellcometrust today for the @RL_UK "Celebrating Research" event. I'll be presenting the findings of my @ahrcpress fellowship on "Documenting the Role of UK Science in the COVID-19 Pandemic". https://t.co/cJZOg9B2D3

[Mel Bach 🇺🇦 @bibliofilka]

A recent blog post from the Royal Commonwealth Society team in @theUL about my fantastic department's hard work to catalogue their little-known 'Foreign colonies' collection.

FYI esp @TheSeeleyLib and @MMLL_Library

https://t.co/HQN3mBx4mx

[Cambridge UL Special Collections @theULSpecColl]

Do you want to learn about healing sore eyes with herbs and urine, conjuring demons, and the soul’s journey after death? Then read our #CuriousCures blogpost on a newly digitised fifteenth-century book of Middle English medical recipes!

https://t.co/qZHaBgFWY2

[Amelie Roper (@amelieroper.bsky.social) @amelieroper]

@LauraVNG @theUL Wow - the queues! Lovely to see! :-)

[Cambridge UL Special Collections @theULSpecColl]

Medieval people who informally practised medicine were called “leeches”. Little is known about them but we have uncovered one of their names in a 15C book of medical recipes using multi-spectral imaging. Read more in our new #CuriousCures blogpost:

https://t.co/qZHaBgFWY2

[Amelie Roper (@amelieroper.bsky.social) @amelieroper]

@TanyaKirk Fantastic news and so well-deserved! Congratulations!