Sunday, 15 December 2019

Buildings, books and blockbusters: balancing access and preservation

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In November I attended (and co-organised!) the 2019 Historic Libraries Forum conference , which was a great opportunity to explore issues ar...
Monday, 1 July 2019

Citation capture: what's in a name? Citing collections consistently for greater impact

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The view from lunch This was a one day workshop at The National Archives to explore the findings and recommendations made in the report...
Sunday, 16 December 2018

Historic Libraries Forum conference 2018: Any other duties as required: skills for non-traditional library responsibilities

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Our conference venue - the beautiful Christ Church, Oxford It was great to be back at another HLF conference, having organised the ...
Sunday, 23 September 2018

RBSCG conference 2018: The library as classroom

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At the beginning of September I attended the first day of the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group conference, at the beautiful D...
Wednesday, 4 July 2018

Developing collaboration between archives services and Higher Education

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The National Archives I attended this day long event at The National Archives in June - it was designed to launch a refreshed guide to...
Monday, 28 August 2017

Engaging younger children with heritage

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This post is part of my 2017 chartership revalidation reflections - I explored how libraries and other heritage institutions cater for the ...
Tuesday, 18 July 2017

Getting organised

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I've always been interested in organising things (I am a librarian, after all) and I've always done a lot with my time: work, volunt...