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BLDS Legacy Collection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Caroline Marchant-Wallis – BLDS Metadata and Discovery Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was chatting to my Librarian mentor recently about how we approached starting the BLDS Legacy Collection project<\/a>, and I realised it was a good question. What did we do? Having been caught up in the whirlwind of the project for the past 18 months, it feels like a good time to start looking at what we have been up to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this is the first in what will be a series of posts over the next year or so about the BLDS project; how we have been managing it, things that have caused us sleepless nights, the highs of seeing the collection coming together, and as with most things these days some chat about how we dealt with Covid and not being able to access our collection for 6 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For background information on the BLDS Legacy Collection, see our previous posts here<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the beginning…<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

October 2019…feelings: overwhelmed….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking into the IDS basement – where the BLDS Legacy Collection is housed – and seeing stack after stack after stack of densely populated shelves of material that it is your responsibility to organise, rationalise and make accessible in 3 years is a daunting prospect. One which I can\u2019t deny did for quite a few months leave us feeling slightly panicked. To help you picture the size of the collection, when we started the project it contained roughly 4,000m of pamphlets, censuses, annual reports, monographs, journals, government publications and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n