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Desert Island Books

November

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Something a little interactive  for this week’s post: Last week, a student volunteer found a little booklet amongst a pile of miscellaneous library publications he was cataloguing, that sparked an interesting conversation in the archive about our favourite books.  Inspired by the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs, the booklet “If you could only take […]

Archive discovery

October

31

The pleasure of opening a box and discovering something that hasn’t been seen by human eyes in years is a pleasure that an archivist experiences more than most.  I have been fortunate in opening many such boxes in the past year as I have been cataloguing the University of Sussex Collection held in Special Collections […]