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Friday Snapshot from Special Collections
Back in Special Collection after a little break and I came across a book about Roger Fry. My mind not perhaps on the work didn’t notice it particularly; a 21st Century paperback until I looked at some...
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Friday’s snapshot from the library …
To celebrate a few days of sun and blue skies; a colourful snapshot or two …. from the library
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Friday’s Snapshot from the library at Special Collections …
I came across this book while browsing (working) this week. Called Impresses quaint by Joseph Crawhill, and published in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by Mawson, Swan & Morgan, 1889 it is a large...
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Friday’s Snapshot from Special Collections …
For the last few weeks I have been working with a work experience student while she only comes one day a week she has really made a difference in the library at Special Collections here at the...
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Friday’s Library Snapshot …
When we receive library of books as donation or indeed a collection we have purchased ; we sometimes come across a random set of journals often there is only one. When the item relates to the...
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A request from the Library …
The frog for Hilaire Belloc’s The bad child’s book of beasts by Pat Jaffe This week I posted an image of a wood engraving by Patricia Jaffe. It was from a back dated journal of the Society of Wood...
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Friday’s snapshot from Special Collections …
I don’t know too much about this little book of Psalms from the Finzi Book Room in Special Collections at University of Reading … it is just so tiny at 2 x 3 inches. A perfect book, published in 1708...
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For the past months I have been working on a small collection of books that belonged to James Knowlson, a friend and scholar of Samuel Beckett. So while many of the items are related to his works about...
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Friday’s Library Snapshots …
This week I posted a blog about an artist called Maria Helena Veira da Silva. I don’t know much about her but understand one of her teachers was Stanley William Hayter, who I know less about. I did a...
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A snapshot from the Bodleian ….
Today, as if you didn’t know is my last day at work in the library before I go on holiday. It marks the end of a wonderful year. Lots of achievements and milestones reached both sides of the Atlantic...
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Wednesday’s Woman
Yesterday was Beatrix Potter’s birthday, everyday I drink my tea at from a Peter Rabbit cup although I didn’t like her books too much; the cup previously owned by my daughter, is a delight at the end...
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Friday’s snapshot from my library
I have enjoyed dipping into my library for the last few weeks; next week I return to Special Collections when I begin on a new project. Meanwhile from Woodcut/wood engraving : a contribution to the...
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Friday Snapshot …
Earlier this week I was able to go into work for a few hours and prepare for next week when I hope to begin the organisation of the Cole Collection; by this I mean to give each item a place on the...
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Saturday …
My daily blog post has been difficult these last few weeks. I thought returning to work even for a few hours might make it all better and of course it will in time. As I write I hear that little voice...
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Weekly Photo Challenge … I spy
I spy my next task, I have been looking forward to beginning the classification on the Cole Library for several months. It is a wonderful collection and the first few shelves are mostly biographies...
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Friday’s Snapshot from the Library …
You may be aware that I began a new reclassification project at the end of last year. It is going well although the first 100 or so items were biographies, dictionaries and lexicons mostly in German...
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Friday from the Library …
Earlier this week I attended an art class, as we chatted, during a break, the name Victor Ambrus came up. I don’t remember why, as we were drawing Roman artifacts found at the archaeological site, at...
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Friday’s Snapshot from the library at Special Collections
Classification of the Cole Library goes on and I am now in the section that appears to be Anatomy; some books are very explicit, strange and wondrous; this one by Gilbert Pidcock published in 1778 is...
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