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Having launched your digital collections, how will you build engagement and develop a sense of community? Learn from three institutions that are successfully using Quartex to strengthen engagement with their user communities.

From open communication to honesty and pragmatism, library and archive practitioners from Syracuse University Libraries, Towson University Special Collections and University Archives, and AM, share their advice for those considering how to embed accessibility into digital collections.

AM Editor, Matthew Brand takes a look at some of the RSC prompt books in our our newest Shakespeare collection, pulling out the visually stunning 1986 ‘Yuppie’ production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Michael Bogdanov and starring Sean Bean and Niamh Cusack.

In part 1 of her blog, Helen Duriez, Head of Product at AM, considered why accessibility matters and to whom. In part 2, discover examples of institutions using our technology to serve their audiences as well as how we consider accessibility in the context of our own primary source collections.

In the first of a two-part blog, Helen Duriez, Head of Product at AM, considers what accessibility means to us as a digital publisher and creator of Quartex, and reveals how we hold ourselves to account when it comes to meeting our customers' requirements.

The myriad benefits of serving multiple audiences with separate digital collections sites, all managed from one flexible, powerful and efficient DAMS, are being realised by libraries and archives across the US and around the world. Learn from the examples set by San Francisco State University, Harris County Public Library and Harris County Archives, and Syracuse University.

AM Senior Editor, Sophie Heath looks at our newest module, highlighting some of David Sarnoff's speeches and articles sharing his visions for the broadcasting industry, now digitised from the David Sarnoff Papers held at Hagley Museum and Library as part of our Broadcasting America: The Rise of Mass Media and Communications.

Eleanor Masters, Editorial Assistant at AM dives into our newest module Africa and the New Imperialism looking at the significance of the Berlin Conference from 1888-1885.

Like many members of the AM team, Ana Attrill-Klein, who recently joined our Customer Experience team, has a background working in libraries and archives. In this blog, Ana shares how these experiences have strengthened her belief in archival materials being accessible to all.

We designed AM Quartex with ease of use and efficient working practices front of mind. In a recent webinar, we explored some of the key processes in Quartex that ease digital asset management; here are five of them.

Eleanor Cambridge, Assistant Editor at AM explores the newest module for Interwar Culture, focusing on two fashion designers from the period, who have been largely forgotten.

Courtney Priday, Assistant Editor at AM, dives into our brand new Life at Sea collection to find out how Christmas would have been spent aboard ships during the Age of Sail. These documents provide fantastic insight into the relationships of crew members, their leisure activities and general morale aboard ship.

Editorial Assistant Stewart Pospischil takes a look back through Mass Observation Project and the 2004 Spring directive giving us an insight into what the British public really thought about the BBC. 

Natalie Dale, editor at AM, alongside other members of the editorial team share their personal highlights of canines featured in some of our collections such as Interwar Culture and Mass Observation Project.

Graham Moore, PhD student and Associate Lecturer at University of Reading and The National Archives UK, uncovers historical lived experiences in HCA records, now digitised as part of Life at Sea.

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Jade Bailey, Assistant Editor at AM takes a deep dive into India Office Records, E uncovering glimpses of colonial experiences in the newly digitised volumes of correspondence from IOR/E/4/1084, available now.

Sarah Birse, Assistant Editor at AM opens a window into the everyday life of the Victorians through new digitised footage from the British Film Institute.

AM editor, Beth Snyder takes a look into the Mass Observation Online archives, looking back at Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953. 

Guest contributor Clare Church, a PhD student at Aberystwyth University explores the story of the troops that came to the defence of the forces' sweetheart after attacks from Parliament in 1944. 

This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the iconic Globe Theatre. Exploring the rich collections available in Shakespeare’s Globe Archive: Theatres, Players and Performance unearths the pioneering work behind the theatre’s construction and the incredible painstaking methods involved in creating an authentic space for an audience to enjoy early modern plays as they were originally performed.

Zachary Bodnar, Archivist at Congregational Library & Archives explains the importance of display and metadata when presenting unique assets.

Exciting news for researchers, teachers, and enthusiasts of interwar magazines and culture: digital publisher AM has launched the 1920s Module of its Interwar Culture product! 

Digital archives/collections are heavily dependent upon the scope and quality of metadata for their usability and searchability, but how do you leverage metadata effectively to create meaningful pathways for discovery?