The University of Sussex Library Legacy collection A diverse collection of over 20,000 documents, pamphlets, books and reports which have been collected by the Library since it opened in 1964 From local to national, the well known to little known…
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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…
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…
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
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS, The Library
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS, The Library
Not as boring as they sound – reading the history of Zimbabwean independence from airline annual reports in the BLDS Legacy Collection
By Danny Millum – BLDS metadata and discovery officer One of the many strengths of the BLDS Legacy Collection lies in its holdings of annual reports, from both government departments and public and private companies. While obviously vital source material…
Tagged with: Air Zimbabwe, Airlines, Annual reports, Zimbabwe
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), The Library
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), The Library
Our treasure trove of printed journals
By Chloe Dobson – Collection Development Librarian Did you know that we have a basement area in The Library which is full of printed journals from all subject areas? We provide access to tens of thousands of journals online, which…
Tagged with: Images, Journals, Magazine's, Print journals
Posted in Collection Development, The Library
Posted in Collection Development, The Library