MMLL Library
@mmll-library.bsky.social
Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Library at the University of Cambridge📚
Currently closed until 5th January.
https://linktr.ee/mmll_library
Currently closed until 5th January.
https://linktr.ee/mmll_library
The library itself will be open on weekdays for anyone staying on into December, until we close for Christmas from 20th December - 4th January.
Enjoy these autumnal shots of Sidge, and a summary of our vacation borrowing policies!🍂
Enjoy these autumnal shots of Sidge, and a summary of our vacation borrowing policies!🍂
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The library itself will be open on weekdays for anyone staying on into December, until we close for Christmas from 20th December - 4th January.
Enjoy these autumnal shots of Sidge, and a summary of our vacation borrowing policies!🍂
Enjoy these autumnal shots of Sidge, and a summary of our vacation borrowing policies!🍂
The end of another term is in sight! Well done to all those finishing up on essays, articles and teaching!
You may be wondering what to do with your library books as you head off for the holidays - except for short loans you can keep them all over the vacation!
You may be wondering what to do with your library books as you head off for the holidays - except for short loans you can keep them all over the vacation!
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The end of another term is in sight! Well done to all those finishing up on essays, articles and teaching!
You may be wondering what to do with your library books as you head off for the holidays - except for short loans you can keep them all over the vacation!
You may be wondering what to do with your library books as you head off for the holidays - except for short loans you can keep them all over the vacation!
Relive the recent symposium on La Noire de… at the MMLL Library with our new exhibition!
Put together in collaboration with Dr Doyle Calhoun for the symposium, it combines Ousmane Sembène’s films and literary works, along with relevant scholarship.📚
Put together in collaboration with Dr Doyle Calhoun for the symposium, it combines Ousmane Sembène’s films and literary works, along with relevant scholarship.📚
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Relive the recent symposium on La Noire de… at the MMLL Library with our new exhibition!
Put together in collaboration with Dr Doyle Calhoun for the symposium, it combines Ousmane Sembène’s films and literary works, along with relevant scholarship.📚
Put together in collaboration with Dr Doyle Calhoun for the symposium, it combines Ousmane Sembène’s films and literary works, along with relevant scholarship.📚
Happy Bridgemas!⛄️
Look out for multilingual crocheted Christmas trees around the library foyer, and for some festive treats at Tea & Biscuits!
Look out for multilingual crocheted Christmas trees around the library foyer, and for some festive treats at Tea & Biscuits!
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Happy Bridgemas!⛄️
Look out for multilingual crocheted Christmas trees around the library foyer, and for some festive treats at Tea & Biscuits!
Look out for multilingual crocheted Christmas trees around the library foyer, and for some festive treats at Tea & Biscuits!
Our current exhibition is based around events happening locally to mark Black History Month, with a focus on audio/visual culture, from music and art to black divas throughout history.🎨🎼
Find out more about the events still happening across Cambridge via the link in our bio!
Find out more about the events still happening across Cambridge via the link in our bio!
October 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Our current exhibition is based around events happening locally to mark Black History Month, with a focus on audio/visual culture, from music and art to black divas throughout history.🎨🎼
Find out more about the events still happening across Cambridge via the link in our bio!
Find out more about the events still happening across Cambridge via the link in our bio!
If you've been in the library recently you may have noticed the cabins for the Stirling Building refurbishment blocking some windows. Not to fear - we've replaced these with some sights we'd all much rather be looking out on!
Can you identify these dream Year Abroad destinations?
Can you identify these dream Year Abroad destinations?
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If you've been in the library recently you may have noticed the cabins for the Stirling Building refurbishment blocking some windows. Not to fear - we've replaced these with some sights we'd all much rather be looking out on!
Can you identify these dream Year Abroad destinations?
Can you identify these dream Year Abroad destinations?
- Foreign-language cookbooks to borrow🍳
- The Stirling Building is being refurbished.
- Punny plants around the library!
- The Stirling Building is being refurbished.
- Punny plants around the library!
October 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
- Foreign-language cookbooks to borrow🍳
- The Stirling Building is being refurbished.
- Punny plants around the library!
- The Stirling Building is being refurbished.
- Punny plants around the library!
- External monitors for connecting to your laptop💻
- Posters using photography from students' years abroad.
- Library tours throughout early October.
- Posters using photography from students' years abroad.
- Library tours throughout early October.
October 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
- External monitors for connecting to your laptop💻
- Posters using photography from students' years abroad.
- Library tours throughout early October.
- Posters using photography from students' years abroad.
- Library tours throughout early October.
- An expanded and reorganised collection on wellbeing, popular fiction, activism and more.
- Yoga mats for borrowing🧘♀️
- A growing Modern Greek collection, now located near the Medieval sections.
- Yoga mats for borrowing🧘♀️
- A growing Modern Greek collection, now located near the Medieval sections.
October 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
- An expanded and reorganised collection on wellbeing, popular fiction, activism and more.
- Yoga mats for borrowing🧘♀️
- A growing Modern Greek collection, now located near the Medieval sections.
- Yoga mats for borrowing🧘♀️
- A growing Modern Greek collection, now located near the Medieval sections.
Welcome to all those arriving in Cambridge for the new academic year!🍂📚
Here's a quick rundown of what's been happening at the MMLL Library in advance of the new term🧵
- Cozy lighting in the Student Room.
- English-language fiction translated into Tripos languages.
Here's a quick rundown of what's been happening at the MMLL Library in advance of the new term🧵
- Cozy lighting in the Student Room.
- English-language fiction translated into Tripos languages.
October 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Welcome to all those arriving in Cambridge for the new academic year!🍂📚
Here's a quick rundown of what's been happening at the MMLL Library in advance of the new term🧵
- Cozy lighting in the Student Room.
- English-language fiction translated into Tripos languages.
Here's a quick rundown of what's been happening at the MMLL Library in advance of the new term🧵
- Cozy lighting in the Student Room.
- English-language fiction translated into Tripos languages.
Over the holidays we’ve been busy with book moves and collection expansion at MMLL!
We’ve added a selection of foreign-language cookbooks and popular fiction translated from English into MMLL Tripos languages - look out for speech bubbles marking this on the books’ spines💬
#UniversityofCambridge
We’ve added a selection of foreign-language cookbooks and popular fiction translated from English into MMLL Tripos languages - look out for speech bubbles marking this on the books’ spines💬
#UniversityofCambridge
September 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Over the holidays we’ve been busy with book moves and collection expansion at MMLL!
We’ve added a selection of foreign-language cookbooks and popular fiction translated from English into MMLL Tripos languages - look out for speech bubbles marking this on the books’ spines💬
#UniversityofCambridge
We’ve added a selection of foreign-language cookbooks and popular fiction translated from English into MMLL Tripos languages - look out for speech bubbles marking this on the books’ spines💬
#UniversityofCambridge
At MMLL we’ve been tracking the beautiful ginkgo trees outside the library throughout the seasons!🌳
As we come to summer, the library will be closing to allow for staff annual leave and book move projects. We will be closed from 4th-26th August inclusive.
As we come to summer, the library will be closing to allow for staff annual leave and book move projects. We will be closed from 4th-26th August inclusive.
July 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
At MMLL we’ve been tracking the beautiful ginkgo trees outside the library throughout the seasons!🌳
As we come to summer, the library will be closing to allow for staff annual leave and book move projects. We will be closed from 4th-26th August inclusive.
As we come to summer, the library will be closing to allow for staff annual leave and book move projects. We will be closed from 4th-26th August inclusive.
As you can imagine, the books we purchase for MMLL are shipped from all over the world.📦
We’ve recently started collecting the gorgeous stamps which arrive on these parcels in order to make them into magnets as a small Easter term freebie!
We’ve recently started collecting the gorgeous stamps which arrive on these parcels in order to make them into magnets as a small Easter term freebie!
May 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
As you can imagine, the books we purchase for MMLL are shipped from all over the world.📦
We’ve recently started collecting the gorgeous stamps which arrive on these parcels in order to make them into magnets as a small Easter term freebie!
We’ve recently started collecting the gorgeous stamps which arrive on these parcels in order to make them into magnets as a small Easter term freebie!
Cambridge is getting busy with students settling back in for Easter term!
We’re taking this opportunity to also welcome some new punny trolleys to the library trolley team: meet Gabriel Cartcía Márquez, Bookrecia Martel, Cartemisia Gentileschi and Samuel Bookett!
We’re taking this opportunity to also welcome some new punny trolleys to the library trolley team: meet Gabriel Cartcía Márquez, Bookrecia Martel, Cartemisia Gentileschi and Samuel Bookett!
April 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Cambridge is getting busy with students settling back in for Easter term!
We’re taking this opportunity to also welcome some new punny trolleys to the library trolley team: meet Gabriel Cartcía Márquez, Bookrecia Martel, Cartemisia Gentileschi and Samuel Bookett!
We’re taking this opportunity to also welcome some new punny trolleys to the library trolley team: meet Gabriel Cartcía Márquez, Bookrecia Martel, Cartemisia Gentileschi and Samuel Bookett!
📣The University of Cambridge now has online access to over 50 Latin American newspapers from the nineteenth and early twentieth century!
You can find the full collection via the University's A-Z of databases or by searching for the newspapers on iDiscover.
libguides.cam.ac.uk/az/databases...
You can find the full collection via the University's A-Z of databases or by searching for the newspapers on iDiscover.
libguides.cam.ac.uk/az/databases...
April 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
📣The University of Cambridge now has online access to over 50 Latin American newspapers from the nineteenth and early twentieth century!
You can find the full collection via the University's A-Z of databases or by searching for the newspapers on iDiscover.
libguides.cam.ac.uk/az/databases...
You can find the full collection via the University's A-Z of databases or by searching for the newspapers on iDiscover.
libguides.cam.ac.uk/az/databases...
New MMLL reads!📚
Look out for these on our new book displays around the library.
Here is also a quick reminder that the MMLL Library will be closing at 4pm every day next week, and that we’ll be closed from 18th-21st April. Happy Holidays!
Look out for these on our new book displays around the library.
Here is also a quick reminder that the MMLL Library will be closing at 4pm every day next week, and that we’ll be closed from 18th-21st April. Happy Holidays!
April 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
New MMLL reads!📚
Look out for these on our new book displays around the library.
Here is also a quick reminder that the MMLL Library will be closing at 4pm every day next week, and that we’ll be closed from 18th-21st April. Happy Holidays!
Look out for these on our new book displays around the library.
Here is also a quick reminder that the MMLL Library will be closing at 4pm every day next week, and that we’ll be closed from 18th-21st April. Happy Holidays!
Absolutely incredible stamp game on this recently arrived parcel at MMLL!
Who thinks we should turn some of these into magnets?👀
Who thinks we should turn some of these into magnets?👀
March 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Absolutely incredible stamp game on this recently arrived parcel at MMLL!
Who thinks we should turn some of these into magnets?👀
Who thinks we should turn some of these into magnets?👀
To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay, we've gathered some resources which spotlight women in film - from criticism and journals to films by female filmmakers from around the world.
You can also find details about streaming platforms which University members can access - Sunday plans sorted!🍿
You can also find details about streaming platforms which University members can access - Sunday plans sorted!🍿
March 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay, we've gathered some resources which spotlight women in film - from criticism and journals to films by female filmmakers from around the world.
You can also find details about streaming platforms which University members can access - Sunday plans sorted!🍿
You can also find details about streaming platforms which University members can access - Sunday plans sorted!🍿
If you’re at the library today or tomorrow, have a break in the sun and check out the 48-hour installation Sur place & À emporter by Sébastien Hoëltzener and Nina Rendulić, co-ordinated by Prof Hugo Azérad.
A description of the installation can be found here: www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/sur-p...
A description of the installation can be found here: www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/sur-p...
March 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
If you’re at the library today or tomorrow, have a break in the sun and check out the 48-hour installation Sur place & À emporter by Sébastien Hoëltzener and Nina Rendulić, co-ordinated by Prof Hugo Azérad.
A description of the installation can be found here: www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/sur-p...
A description of the installation can be found here: www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/sur-p...
The first week of spring felt like a fitting time to join Bluesky! Blue skies at MMLL this week featured below☀️
March 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The first week of spring felt like a fitting time to join Bluesky! Blue skies at MMLL this week featured below☀️