Heythrop Library

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Author: Amelia Leventhal

  • Our journals: British Catholic History

    Title of journal  British Catholic History Formerly titled Biographical Studies, 1534-1829 (1951-1956), Recusant History (1957-2014) Published since  1957  ISSN  2055-7973 (Print), 2055-7981 (Online) Held at the Heythrop Library since  2015 Our catalogue record  https://hey.koha.openfifth.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=89630 Subject(s) covered  British and Irish Catholicism, British and Irish Catholic history Publisher or issuing body’s name  Cambridge University Press Web site  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-catholic-history (last…

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    Cataloguing update: investigations in stenography

    At first glance this Bible appears relatively unassuming. I started cataloguing as I normally would by first looking at a book’s title page. As I had only paid attention to one part of the title ‘The Holy Bible containing the Old & New Testament’, I thought this would be a pretty straightforward job.

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  • Second officer’s log #1

    Training new crew members (or in our case, work experience volunteers) comes with its own trials and tribulations. In my case, as Second Officer but primarily Cataloguer, I am tasked with breaking down cataloguing to its basic and most simple form. I have discovered that this can be way more difficult than it sounds! I…

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