CILIP LIHG Conference 2024: Libraries, Archives and Natural History

Registration at 10am

Panel 1: Crowd sourcing and citizen science

Lisa Cardy, Natural History Museum

Digitally unlocking collections at the Library and Archives of the Natural History Museum

Kiri Ross-Jones, Kew Gardens

Unlocking the Archives of Kew Gardens: Citizen Science and Handwritten Text Recognition in the Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project

Panel 2: Human narratives from natural history archives

Katherine Enright, University of Cambridge

Digital Methods for Reconnecting Botanical Publications with Herbarium Specimens: Mohamed Haniff's Ethnobotanical Collecting for Malay Village Medicine (1930)

Kimberly Glassman, Queen Mary University of London

Library, Archive, and Herbarium: A Literary/Material Analysis of Nineteenth Century North American Floras

Christopher D. Preston & Nathan Smith, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Community and Continuity: Non-hierarchical recording of Cambridgeshire’s Plants and Fungi 1919-1949

Lunch includes optional tours of the Linnean (limited number - sign up on the day)

Panel 3: Women in natural history

Liz Smith, University of Cambridge

Establishing the Darwinian Legacy: editorial and scientific work in the archive of Lady Nora Barlow

Ann Sylph, Zoological Society of London

Women and zoological art : Uncovering art and illustrations by women in ZSL's Library and Archives

Panel 4: Second lives of natural history collections

Renae Satterley, Middle Temple

Engagement with historic natural history collections in Middle Temple

William Noblett, University of Cambridge

The 1774 sale of Philip Miller's library in the context of the London book trade

4.30pm Close

Host or Publisher Jill Dye