It’s the start of a new academic year in Cambridge, which means the publication of our annual report for the previous year–looking back over a major incunables exhibition at Cambridge University Library, a feast of festive blogging on the subject of the word made flesh, and some of the rudest visual marginalia ever seen. You can download a copy (with said marginalia) from our homepage.

We’re also looking forward to a new year of HMT seminars (click on the ‘Seminar Series’ tab for details), and in a new development many of these will take place in the UL’s Milstein Seminar Room. This will mean less wine but more books, a trade-off that we hope will be bearable. In the course of the year, we’re also going to be getting some exhibition cases, so we can start putting on our own shows. We’re saying goodbye to some valued members and saying hello to some new ones, including National Trust Libraries Curator Mark Purcell, who is going to be the new Head of Research Content and Strategy at CUL. And a host of colloquia and conferences are in prospect. Watch our Twitter and Facebook feeds or sign up to our mailing list (details on the ‘Members’ page) for details.