Continuing the series about getting to know our lovely colleagues, next up are Arran and Kane our fabulous LSA’s.
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Continuing the series about getting to know our lovely colleagues, and welcoming the TEL team to their new home in the Library, next up is TEL’s very own David Walker.
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Continue readingTo kick off the new year on the blog we continue our mini series on libraries from childhood, this time with Sam Nesbit.
Sam Nesbit
Blindfold me, spin me dizzy, and send me staggering down the Uxbridge Road: I could still find my way to the shelf which held the Dorling Kindersley Encyclopaedia of Sharks in Shepherds Bush Public Library. Such was my fascination with all things Carcharodon carcharias that I must’ve borrowed that book over 50 times (no automatic renewals in the 80s!), and it helped embed a lifelong fear of swimming in water more than knee-high. (My dad letting me watch ‘Jaws’ at a ridiculously young age didn’t help, but I’m not pointing fingers…)
Continue readingDanny, Caroline & Tracy take us on a trip down into the IDS basement…
Continue readingLeonard Cheshire intern Vicky Ward takes us through some of the stranger ‘health’ adverts in the Hills stamp collection currently being catalogued at the Keep…
Continue readingA Blog by Andrew Lycett, literary biographer and contributor to new TV documentary Rudyard Kipling: A Secret Life
As a new documentary about our local writer Kipling airs on Sky Arts this October we thought the time was right to revisit the writer’s claim on our beautiful county:
Continue readingContinuing the series about getting to know our lovely colleagues, next up is The Keep’s Karen Watson and FAB’s Jack Coull.
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Continue readingContinuing our new mini series on libraries from childhood, next up are recollections from Esther Gill and Kerry Smith.
Continue readingby Clare Playforth
I’ve recently had an exciting visit to the Wiley European Distribution Centre with the Society of Indexers and because I am kind and you are lucky I’m going to share the experience here.
The Wiley warehouse is spread over a couple of units on an industrial estate in Bognor Regis and after arriving at this glamourous location we were treated to pastries and coffee and a chat about the history of the company: quite interesting. Then we donned our high vis and went on a 2.5 hour tour of the warehouse: very interesting.
Continue readingIn the start of a new mini series of library staff blog posts we first have Claire Kettle and Lizzy sharing memories of the library from their childhood.
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