Special Collections Projects

Current Projects

	Clay Sanskrit Project: A project funded by the JJC Foundation to donate complete sets of the Clay Sanskrit Library, and conduct outreach, workshops, masterclasses and a conference exploring Classical Indian literature.
	Saving Oxford Medicine: Saving Oxford Medicine aims to record key sources for the recent history of medicine in Oxford. It includes work to survey the archives of current and retired members of Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division, and to catalogue medical archives already held by the Bodleian Library.
	What's the score at the Bodleian? This Google-funded project is looking to increase access to the Libraries' music collections through crowd-sourcing. From summer 2011, over four thousand digitised scores, mostly sheet music from the period 1860-1880, many with illustrated covers, will be available online. We are developing an environment which will allow, and encourage, description of these images through community engagement.
	Roy Jenkins Archive: A project to catalogue the archive of the politician, author, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Roy Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead (1920-2003).
	Maps and Music Card Catalogue: Converting 536,400 card catalogue records of Maps and Music special collections into an online format: unleashing the research potential of hidden collections.

	Oxford & Cambridge Islamic Manuscripts Online: A JISC-funded project to create an online catalogue of Islamic manuscripts at the universities of Oxford & Cambridge
	Linguistic Geographies: The Gough Map of Great Britain: The Gough Map is internationally-renowned as one of the earliest maps to show Britain in a geographically-recognizable form. Linguistic Geographies was an AHRC-funded research project that sought to address the key questions of how the map was made, who made it, when and why.
	The Sampson Project: Cataloguing the archive of Anthony Sampson, a journalist and writer. The collection reflects Sampson's interests in South Africa and the anti-apartheid movement, politics, business and publishing, with a list of correspondents including some of the most famous names in 20th-century Britain and elsewhere.