The Library and Museum of Freemasonry in London has been working with the computing unit at Kings College London on a project to digitise English Masonic Periodicals. Funding has been provided by the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons.

A pilot project covering 5,450 pages based on the following titles and periods has now been launched..

Freemasons’ Monthly Magazine (1855-1856) Freemasons’ magazine and Masonic Mirror (1856-1858)

...which can be accessed at the following web address: http://mpol.cch.kcl.ac.uk/

This pilot will be available until the end of April and the Library and Museum are keen to encourage all Nottinghamshire Masons to use it and let them have their comments on all elements of the site including the database of the periodical. Please send your comments to libmus@ugle.org.uk. They will be collating and assessing responses before they proceed to add more detail to the site.

A user guide is provided which you may want to test.

You are welcome to comment on all aspects but you might want to consider the following issues:

General accessibility / readability; Navigation around the site; Ability to obtain accurate search results; Ability to search key words or phrases; Ability to read / browse the publications on line; Ability to see context of articles, i.e. where they appear on the page; Ability to print out individual articles; Search results presented with context so that irrelevant search results can be discarded; Other contextual material provided on the site.