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The British Library is this month putting on a digital display of some of its more hidden treasures, including historic globes which will be available to explore online. This week, the British Library will unveil its latest cutting-edge project: making the first batch of what ultimately will be thirty historical globes available for unprecedented up-close interaction, including an augmented reality fuction.

Qatar Digital Library (QDL) is the culmination of a partnership between Qatar Foundation, Qatar National Library, and the British Library in 2012. Around the world from your sofa: British Library to put rare globes online Examples include 1679 pocket globe and 1730 terrestrial globe showing California as an island Published: 18 Mar 2020 Most …

Together they reflect the historic strengths of the Museum's diverse curatorial departments, which are dedicated to excellence in the research of human cultures – past and present – across the globe. The Digital Collections unit supports the research and teaching mission of East Carolina University and preserves the cultural heritage of the eastern North Carolina community through digital initiatives, especially the creation of digital library materials and tools. It is the result of two years’ collaboration between BL imaging specialists and the digitization company British Library, Map Library: The British Library's map collection spans the world, but for now Old Maps Online provides access to two online collections: the Ordnance Surveyors' Drawings, made between the 1780s and 1840 during the first detailed survey of Britain, and the Crace Collection of maps of London, charting the development of the city from around 1570 to 1860. Videos from the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom The British Museum Library collections are made up of more than 300,000 volumes. The association of glove-wearing with handling old books is in fact a modern phenomenon, and one that has little scientific basis. David Rumsey Collection - A collection of historical digital maps from a wide variety of sources, including atlases, globes and single sheet maps. However few of us have ever turned a celestial globe by hand, we can now do it virtually. Whenever a British Library manuscript is featured in the press or on television, we inevitably receive adverse comments about our failure to wear white gloves! The British Library's digital collection boasts several such "celestial globes," which chart the sky rather than the Earth. Our university library, for example, holds a book on 19th-century Russian drama with the following note pasted in: “Bring a bottle of bubbly, sweetie, and have some fun. Read More

The library has about 150 historic globes in its vast collection of books, manuscripts and maps. If 1602 seems a bit too vintage, give a digital spin to the others from 1700, 1728, and 1783.