Bringing together and supporting historic libraries
UK
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Tickets for our hybrid conference at SOAS on security in historic libraries are selling well. Registration for in-person attendance closes on Monday 28 October - don't miss out! Online tickets also available. eventbrite.co.uk/e/securing-…
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Have you booked your place for Library Treasures: Unexpected Worlds on Thursday 24 October?
To find more information and book your place, visit our website: herefordcathedral.org/news/l…
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Reading the Room is a new John Fell funded project @UniofOxford exploring what it means to engage with books in a heritage setting, models of interpretation + engagement in libraries & complicating understandings of heritage libraries. english.web.ox.ac.uk/reading…
@ResearchNT
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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus
The colours are turning around Hawarden. When the sun shines in just the right way, the leaves light up like stained glass windows.
ALT A close up of the underside of leaves (possibly beech). Some are light green, others are amber
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VERY busy in @StDavidsCath Library this afternoon. Lovely to share our Rare Books collection with visitors from #Italy #Germany #SouthAfrica #Cardiff #Llandaff
& show visiting choir Ferrabosco Singers our Tomkins part books
& so to #ChoralEvensong 6pm
Clucas, Sumsion, Howells
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Curious about the types of projects we fund?
Check out our 'Past grants' page on our website:
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Next grant deadline 📅 1 November
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While we’re closed for summer maintenance works, our rare books librarian @girlinthe has been surveying some of the books in the Dorchester Library. 📚🧵
ALT A wall lined with wooden bookshelves, filled with old brown leather-bound books. A set of blue library steps and a blue library trolley are in front of the bookcases.
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Happy #WorldOysterDay and #MolluscMonday🦪
Chromolithographs of Great Barrier Reef oysters in "The Great Barrier Reef of Australia" by William Saville-Kent, 1893.
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#DiwrnodRhyngwladolMenywod
#InternationalWomensDay
Coloured plates by Augusta Withers "Flower Painter in Ordinary" to Queen Adelaide & Queen Victoria, in "The Botanist" by Maund & Henslow 1878.
Augusta's name does not appear on the publication.
Displayed 2pm-4pm in our Library.
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This Saturday! Free drop-in event! Join us for 'Bound to Impress: Creativity and the Book', showcasing the skills of printers, book-binders and designers down the centuries.
📅Sat 2 March
⏰10.30am-1pm
#EarlyPrintedBooks
eventbrite.co.uk/e/bound-to-…
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That's more of the scaffolding now down this week from Dunblane's historic Leighton Lubrary, revealing more of the marvellous restoration work which has been going on over the past year. Thanks to Tom Astbury for these photographs.../🧵👇
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We're #hiring: want to steer the Portico Library's transformational Reunited project supported by @HeritageFundUK as our new Project Manager?
Get to know the project and the role: theportico.org.uk/vacancies
Deadline: Friday 1 March, 12 noon
ALT A poster by the Portico Library that has an illustration of a flower with the text: We are hiring.
ALT Portico Library is looking for a Project Manager and this graphic outlines what the role entails: We're looking for someone to lead the Portico Library's transformational Reunited Project . The role is responsible got ensuring the delivery of all aspects of the capital, activity programme and associated tasks on time and on budget.
ALT Key info about the Portico Library Project Manager role: This contract type is freelance, for 15 months. The fee is £58,500 (excluding VAT). To apply you have to submit your CV, answer some questions, and fill in an equal ops form. The deadline to apply is Friday 1 Mar 2024, 12 noon. And interviews are on Tue 12 March.
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Call for papers! @IndieLibraries Facing the Future conference @ @morrablibrary . We would love to welcome you and help to share your stories about the wonderful world of Independent Libraries! independentlibraries.co.uk/a…
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Tune in to BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 23 January at 1:45pm to listen to Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes, featuring The Exeter Book from his visit to the #ExeterCathedral Library and Archives. Listen at bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vm4…. #1000YearsOfWonder @BBCRadio4 @CofEDevon @ExeterCityofLit
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🌞 Tourism hotspots! Shoutout to the finalists in the ‘Tourism Website of the Year’ category at the @DigitalIre @ptsbireland National Digital Awards!
@FunkytownAdven
@heritageparkwex
@Laois_Chamber
@MarshsLibrary
@VisitDublin
🌐🏆
#DigitalAwards24
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It’s been a long, long week but hearing about @DialectHeritage talking about their achievements has made my day! Helping them to build the project was a long time ago so hearing about the delivery is fab. Thanks @HistLibForum
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Exciting to learn that @nkivilcimyavuz has examined 57 Ripon Cathedral books, 84% of which have fragments in situ, and there are hundreds more books to examine! #HistLib2023 #HLF2023
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Fantastic that the detached fragments of medieval manuscript in the Ripon Cathedral collection are being digitised and added to @FragmentariumMS #HistLib2023 #HLF2023
Collaboration and manuscript studies up next with @nkivilcimyavuz: Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Practice: Digital Approaches to the Ripon Cathedral Library Collection #HLF2023 #HistLib2023
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We are so lucky at leeds to have enthusiastic & inspiring researchers using our Special Collections. Huge thanks to @DrabigailHarris @nkivilcimyavuz & Fiona Douglas (@DialectHeritage ) for their brilliant presentations at the @HistLibForum conference @LULGalleries
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Great talks at #HLF2023 Lara Haggerty made a very strong case for hosting applied research studentships at @Innerpeffray the joy of each discovery ripples through the whole organisation. Here, @bibliophisla crowd sources a transcription and identifies a past reader! #HistLib2023
