Last month a group of us visited Gray’s Inn Library, where the Librarian kindly gave us a tour of the collections. Jay and I have written up our thoughts on this very interesting library: Hilary Gray’s Inn is one of the four Inns of Court (the others being Inner Temple, Middle Temple and Lincoln’s Inn)….Continue Reading Visit to Gray’s Inn Library
In September, I visited Madrid as part of an Erasmus+ project called “Erasmus Staff Mobility Week for Librarians”. Our host was UNED, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Distance Learning National University), born in 1972 with in mind the very British Open University. Today, UNED is the biggest university in Spain, with over 60 associated…Continue Reading Erasmus+: Discovering Madrid libraries
Introductions Thanks to the Customer Service Group UK, this summer I, along with other lucky Information Assistants, was able to visit the library of another University and learn about their experiences. I was quite keen on a visit to Royal Holloway (I have wanted to go ever since first seeing a photo of the Founders’…Continue Reading CSGUK Visit to Royal Holloway
I was pleased to be invited to present at and attend the above event at Aston University. Last week, I managed to become excited about my quite esotheric topic Grey literature. The presentations included: Intergovernmental organisations, statistics, parliamentary publications (from the British Library), grey literature, Research data management (the Bodleian), free maths and stats resources,…Continue Reading Mastering Social Sciences event
On Thursday 9th August, Jonathan, Claire and Catie visited the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide in Russell Square. The library provides an incredibly important and invaluable source of primary historical documents as well as an actively functioning library for research. Catie Head of Collections, Greg Toth, estimated that the Wiener Library has: …Continue Reading Visit to the Wiener Library, 9th August
A visit organised by Cpd25 gave me the opportunity to discover the Stuart Hall Library, currently located in the heart of the vibrant district of Shoreditch. This is a seemingly appropriate location for the Library of the institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), Shoreditch being a hub for creative street art. But it is due…Continue Reading Visit to the Stuart Hall Library, 31st July 2018
On Friday 20th of July, I visited the Bloomberg Headquarters in London for my second Bloomberg in Education symposium. The day-long event was attended mostly by academics, but there were also a few familiar faces from the Business Librarians Association. The day was filled with talks from academics who have integrated Bloomberg into teaching or…Continue Reading Highlights from Bloomberg in Education Symposium – 20th July 2018
Following on from the invitation circulated by ALISS, we joined a small group of fellow professionals in an area currently buzzing with projects in the Library and Archive world. The visit was to introduce us to the archive and exhibitions of the Garden Museum, recently renovated during an £8,000,000 development project (2015-2017), and holding a…Continue Reading Visit to the Garden Museum, 19th July 2018
Visit of the Bloomberg European Headquarters A small group of City Library staff, academics and students headed under the sun towards Bank Station on Thursday 28th June to discover one of the most recent additions to London’s list of iconic buildings. The Bloomberg European Headquarters soon came into view, and we were all shown into…Continue Reading Tour of Iconic Bloomberg European Headquarters and London Mithraeum, 28th June 2018
One afternoon in December, a group of library staff ventured out into deepest darkest Bloomsbury on a trip to the Egypt Exploration Society. Upon arrival, we were ushered into a room full of boxes of letters and paintings and books on display. Dr. Carl Graves gave an illuminating talk on the history of the society,…Continue Reading The Egypt Exploration Society Archive