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DiadEM DiadEM is a project supported by Libraries and Information East Midlands, MLA East Midlands and MLA nationally to identify special collections held in the region's libraries and to create a set of collection level descriptions using the RSLP schema which are now being added to the national Cornucopia database. The DiadEM project uncovered an exciting range of collections in the East Midlands. Some of these are already well known, such as the D.H. Lawrence Collection at the University of Nottingham and the Tennyson Research Centre in Lincoln, but DiadEM has found other special collections in all corners of the region, such as the material on hunting held at Melton Mowbray Library, colliery disasters at North Nottinghamshire College and the Osborne Robinson collection of posters at the University of Northampton. Many other libraries and organisations across the East Midlands region also participated in the DiadEM project; these include bodies as diverse as the Chartered Management Institution and the British Horological Institute and small museum libraries such as the Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire and the Commemorative Collectors Society in Nottinghamshire. While some of the collections are accessible by the members of the organisation only, it has been gratifying to see the willingness of librarians and curators to open their doors and to promote awareness of their information resources. The first phases of the DiadEM project have now come to an end and we are hoping to encourage the DiadEM participating libraries to also join Inspire.
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