Welcome to the Marshall Library for New Students

 Welcome to Cambridge from the Marshall Library Team! 

If you are a student in Economics or Development Studies we are the Library for your course. We have a comprehensive Economics and Development Studies collection, both in print and online. We have multiple copies of all your key textbooks and, where possible, we have provided ebook access too. We also hold the Archives of Alfred Marshall and other key figures from Cambridge Economics.

The Marshall Library is based on one side of the Austin Robinson Building (opposite the main Faculty of Economics entrance) and has a surprisingly beautiful Reading Room, which you will enjoy using as a study space.

To begin with during Michaelmas Term we will be operating a Book a Study Space service for longer stays in the Library space: https://www.marshall.econ.cam.ac.uk/book-seat    but we hope to be able to open up more as term progresses. If you just want to come in and borrow/return a book or speak to us for help and advice you can just come in. Keep up to date with our current library services here: https://www.marshall.econ.cam.ac.uk/current-marshall-library-services

We strongly recommend that you watch our Library Induction talks either in person, or via recordings on your Moodle Induction pages. For a flavour of our space and services please watch our brief video Introduction to the Marshall Library: https://bit.ly/3EU2CYO

We have a useful website which gives you all the information about the Library, our services and our resources such as online databases and datasets: https://www.marshall.econ.cam.ac.uk/

To find resources you need for your studies it is important that you learn how to use the catalogue iDiscover: https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/

We have shared the Economics iDiscover workbook with you and really recommend you spend a short time doing this to get the best out of the catalogue and save time later!

For basic tips about using Cambridge Libraries, including searching iDiscover check out the Library Essentials Libguide

If you cannot find a book, journal article, database or dataset then just ask us! All the Marshall Library staff are very friendly. We are here to help you and look forward to seeing you soon in the Library.

Keep in touch by following us on Twitter @Marshalllibrary and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallLib

You are likely to see our mascot, Jasper the #Economicscat on Twitter and, hopefully, in catperson, at the Library where he makes a couple of visits each year

The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge - Exhibition Launch 15th October 2019

I was very privileged to be invited to attend the launch of the University Libraries new exhibition:
The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge, which marks 150 years since the founding of the Cambridge's first women's college. It tells the stories of lives of women at Cambridge and the fight for equal educational rights.

You can read more about the exhibition, curated by Dr. Lucy Delap and Dr. Ben Griffin on the Cambridge University Library website.

I was lucky to be invited to the launch as the Marshall Library has contributed to Rising Tide exhibition by lending our Roger Fry portrait of Mary Paley Marshall 1850-1944, the first librarian, benefactor and founder of the Marshall Library of Economics. I am very proud, as Marshall Librarian, to see Mary hanging in pride of place along with other key portraits of Cambridge women in the University Library main corridor.

Mary Paley Marshall. Courtesy of the Marshall Library, University of Cambridge.

Mary Paley was one of the first women to study the Moral Sciences Tripos at Newnham College, as well as one of the first to take the exam. She was taught by Alfred Marshall, whom she later married. She was also the first woman lecturer in Economics. She could not graduate, of course, and, unfortunately died before women were granted this right at Cambridge in 1948. John Maynard Keynes and Austin Robinson commissioned this portrait by Roger Fry in honour of her work for the Faculty of Economics. She sat for this portrait in Keynes' rooms at Kings. This is actually the second portrait, which was accepted. The first portrait painted by Roger Fry was not a good enough likeness!

It was a great evening with some excellent speeches, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell gave a very moving speech about her discovery of pulsars, while studying for her PhD at Murray Edwards College (then New Hall) at Cambridge. It was also a wonderful opportunity to meet some amazing Women at Cambridge, past and present. I particularly enjoyed the story behind the "Behave Badly" badge: Lisa Jardine, a renowned historian who studied at Newnham College 1963-73 used to hand out these badges to women friends - those she though would benefit from them. One such badge was worn by Jane Tillier, first laywoman chaplin at Jesus College in 1984 and Jane used to wear it under her robes. The exhibition is on at the University Library until January 2020 and has involved Libraries and Archives from all over Cambridge - I thoroughly recommend visiting it.

Clare Trowell

Marshall Librarian