Author: Clemens Gresser

  • Three Heythrop Library users in our Mount Street reading room .

    Who are our users in October 2025?

    Frequently I get asked who uses our Library. I don’t think that most people asking me this are those who would dismiss the value of a research library with over 200,000 volumes for theology and philosophy in London. Rather, I believe that they are thinking along the lines that for most other libraries people might…

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  • Sign on new acquisitions trolley telling everyone when the Library will close on that day.

    Improvements October 2025

    Lots of changes, most of the improvements have been made, but the following four might have escaped your notice – even if you are a library member who regularly uses our reading room. First up: inspired by a regular user of the reading room, who construct their own standing desk by finding door-stopper volumes to…

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  • Photo shows 4 pages of the new opening hours, ready to be hung up in the Library.

    Captain’s log #5

    Captain’s log. 19 September 2025. For those who read this blog, and the Captain’s logs vigoursly: you will remember that 3 months ago we said good bye to our old library management system! We have been very busy getting to grips with the new system which has propelled the spaceship, erm, the library into the…

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