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All new Sparrows' Nest 'Digital Library'

info [at] thesparrowsnest.org.uk (The Sparrows' Nest) | 17.04.2013 18:55

We are very happy to announce that we have not only restructured the digitised documents on our website, but also added loads and loads more materials you can to browse to your delight.

All in all we added another 4,500 pages of zines, bulletins, pamphlets, news sheets, etc. including e.g. a series of the SWF's ‘Direct Action Pamphlets' from the 40s and early 50s, documents from the 1960s and 70s (including more than 50 issues of ‘Anarchy'), numerous 1980s punk zines and much more!

You can access all digitised documents on our new ‘Digital Library' section on the Nest's website.

There is a direct link to a comprehensive table of all digitised materials, containing both searchable catalogued information as well as hyperlinks to the digitised documents.

There are also links to more detailed tables regarding the individual collections (almost the same thing, but containing more contextual information).

Everything that was online before is of course still accessible, including e.g. Ron's fabulous collection of Syndicalist materials (1940s to 1960s), providing fascinating insights into the history of syndicalist groups and individuals, in Britain and around the world. However, it is no longer necessary to do stuff like downloading spread sheets and following separate links for each page of a document.

Admittedly, the tables we produced look a bit late 1990s internet, but it should be quite straightforward to navigate the tables in order to browse and discover amazing documents.

We are of course always striving to make this Digital Library as accurate and user-friendly as possible and if there are any people out there who could assist us in putting together a more user-friendly (or fancier looking) database, please get in touch!

We also constantly busy scanning more documents so please come back often to find more and more digital content.

Have fun browsing the materials and please get in touch with any suggestions, additional information regarding the documents etc.

Hope to see you soon at the Nest!


info [at] thesparrowsnest.org.uk (The Sparrows' Nest)
- http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/5592