Archive for the ‘Volunteers’ category
Desert Island Books
November
29
Something a little interactive for this week’s post: Last week, a student volunteer found a little booklet amongst a pile of miscellaneous library publications he was cataloguing, that sparked an interesting conversation in the archive about our favourite books. Inspired by the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs, the booklet “If you could only take […]
Archive discovery
October
31
The pleasure of opening a box and discovering something that hasn’t been seen by human eyes in years is a pleasure that an archivist experiences more than most. I have been fortunate in opening many such boxes in the past year as I have been cataloguing the University of Sussex Collection held in Special Collections […]