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…
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: Cataloguing1, 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
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…
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
12th May 2020 an introduction to the diaries
By Chloe Daniel – Mass Observation Archive Assistant 23 March, 2020. The country, along with life as we knew it, stopped. School’s out. Non-essential shopping is no longer permitted. Gatherings involving more than two people now prohibited. You may only…
Tagged with: 12th May, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Diaries, Lockdown
Posted in MO (Mass Observation), The Keep
Posted in MO (Mass Observation), The Keep
House bound
By Lisa Towner – Collection Development Library Assistant (and bookbinder extraordinaire) When bookmaking during lockdown I think about a book by Mark Williams and Danny Penman, Mindfulness a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world. Making books has…
Tagged with: Bookbinding, Books, Hobbies, Lockdown, Mindfulness, Notebooks, Sketchbooks
Posted in Collection Development, Uncategorised
Posted in Collection Development, Uncategorised
Telling the time and temporal rhythms
Evidence from the MOA Autumn 2017 directive One-day diary: organising and experiencing time By Clare Holdsworth, Keele University Writing a one-day diary is a key activity of being a MOA correspondent. One-day diaries are often used in directives, including the…
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