By Danny Millum – BLDS Metadata and Discovery Officer Normally when you tell your family / friends about what you do, unless you’re a fireman or a nurse they just zone out (especially when your job title is Metadata Discovery…
Blog Archives
We’ll meet again – or how I gambled away Vera Lynn’s autograph and ended up in a Zambian jungle with a bunch of hippies…
Tagged with: African journals, African pamphlets, Burma, Zambia
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS, The Library
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS, The Library
You think blended flex with a touch of hybridity is tough? Try a Soviet-era correspondence course
By Danny Millum – BLDS Metadata and Discovery Officer One of the many consequences of the pandemic has been to accelerate the development and adoption of new teaching methods, with all the associated stress for teachers and students of having…
Tagged with: Education, India, Literacy, Russia, Teaching methods, USSR
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS, The Library
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS, The Library
Well that’s a lot of pamphlets….
BLDS Legacy Collection By Caroline Marchant-Wallis – BLDS Metadata and Discovery Officer I was chatting to my Librarian mentor recently about how we approached starting the BLDS Legacy Collection project, and I realised it was a good question. What did…
Tagged with: Cataloguing, Classification, Grey literature, Pamphlets, Project management
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Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS, The Library
Collections reading group
By Richard Wragg – Collections Manager For the last few months, the Collections Team have been meeting for a reading group. The texts we have chosen to discuss have all had a focus on decolonisation, equality and diversity. The reading…
‘For security reasons it may not be prudent to unfold where I am’ – Ghana’s 1978 electoral commissioner’s letter from hiding surfaces in the BLDS Legacy collection
By Danny Millum – BLDS Metadata and Discovery Officer Cataloguing on the BLDS Legacy Collection project has now reached Ghana, and we’ve just unearthed a fascinating letter from a dramatic time in that country’s political history. On 30 March 1978…
Tagged with: Elections, Ghana, Government, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Letters, Politics, Referendum, UNIGOV
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS
Football, poetry and fables -the surprising features in BLDS African port harbour magazines
By Danny Millum – BLDS Metadata and discovery officer There are many fascinating rabbit holes to explore in the BLDS Legacy Collection, and you often come across them in the most unexpected places. Perhaps this just shows our limited imagination,…
Tagged with: Africa, African history, Cameroon, Cultural history, Football, Industry, Poetry, Ports, Somalia, Tanzania
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS