10 years and over 800 blog posts ago, the head of European Collections and Cataloguing, David Lowe, launched ‘European Languages across Borders’. Today we are very excited to rename our blog ‘Languages across Borders’ and to welcome our colleagues in the Department of World Collections as our new partners in the blog. Continue reading “Celebrating our blog’s 10th birthday with a new name and new partners”
When this blog was launched, the thought of reaching 600 posts would have seemed absurd. Producing the first 6 felt like enough of a challenge. This blogpost celebrates some of our blogging activity over the last 7 years.
The blog was the brainchild of David Lowe, our now-retired head of department. A great deal has changed since the first blog post appeared in November 2013. In it, David introduced the blog and also what was then the department: European Collections & Cataloguing. In 2016, he wrote again about the department, this time to introduce its new incarnation: Collections and Academic Liaison, a coming together of European Collections & Cataloguing and the English Collections Department. More recently, I touched upon the need to think about a new name for the blog itself (as yet unresolved) in this post.
Languages across Borders 