ByRob
Last February I wrote a post about the Loss of Print Journals from Academic Libraries. In it I noted how libraries are becoming increasingly dependent upon electronic databases, a development which is generally welcomed, but may have some negative consequences, especially for those who are not affiliated to an academic institution. Since the end of…
ByRob
One of the advantages of working for an educational institution is that you do get a good long break over Christmas. This has proved very useful, as I was able to clear some of my back-log of scanning over the holiday. The major milestone reached was the completion of the scanning of all 96 volumes…
ByRob
The Baptist Magazine was published for 95 years between 1809 and 1904. It is remarkable that such an important publication has never been digitised and made available online before. Complete sets of this journal very rare making it very difficult to access such old books. Spurgeon’s College has around 80 volumes of the The Baptist…
ByRob
During the Summer I have not been posting much to social media in order to concentrate on a couple of outstanding projects. Historic Baptist Journals The digitisation of the Spurgeon’s College’s holdings of the following historic Baptist journals is now completed. None represent a complete run, but there is sufficient overlap to allow important people…