As the UK can no longer take advantage of EU orphan works exceptions the @BLpressoffice has had to take down their digitised editions of Spare RIb - blogs.bl.uk/socialscience/… "For researchers working on Spare Rib, the full run of the hardcopy magazine remains available via the British Library’s Reading Rooms in London and at Boston Spa". But not at the moment of course!

Heading north from Cardiff to Durham University, I wanted to continue the theme of how items enter collections for #RLUKCollections and their wide variety For some of @dulib collections the connection is obvious. As a well-established university in a powerful and often rich ecclesiastical centre there are the illuminated manuscripts and items reflecting the history of the region that you might expect