Trip to Cambridge

Today was another travel day, which included a visit to the UK headquarters of ProQuest and a meeting with Pembroke College's head librarian and a tour of the library.

The morning session consisted of presentations by staff of ProQuest at their UK headquarters. The detailed program was arts and humanities focused, and included a look at some of  Proquest's digitization efforts, including Early European Books, John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, and soon to be unveiled Vogue magazine archive.

Next up, we traveled by minibus into the Cambridge historic center for lunch at the canal-side Granta pub.

The Granta pub, Cambridge

Next was a visit to Anthony's Aama mater, Pembroke College for a tour of historic college. We then met with head librarian Patricia Aske who spoke about her job managing an historic and functional academic library. Patricia also gave us a tour of library and showed us some of its archival treasures.

The upper floor of the Pembroke College library