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  • Photo shows the presenter of the talk, the audience, and with a view of a nearby building through a window.

    Treasures at Campion Hall – report June 2025

    On 2 June 2025, our rare book cataloguer, Alison Felstead, gave a superb introduction to the history and contents of the Heythrop Library’s rare book collection, as well as providing some tantalising insights into the work of antiquarian cataloguing. Alison first traced the origins of the Heythrop collection, from the 1614 establishment of a training…

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  • Captain’s log #4

    Captain’s log. 20 June 2025. Today, is the beginning of the end of our old library management system! First, yesterday, was the last day we would catalogue new books, fix errors in our catalogue records or even make changes to where a book is located (we sometimes move books; normally, from the reading room (Heythrop…

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  • Front cover of the journal Concilium issue 2, 2025

    Journal indexing and its pitfalls

    One of the less frequent (but no less important!) library tasks that I find myself engaged with each week in the library, concerns both sending off and ordering in issues of our journals collection to our offsite store. The sending off of older issues is often the more straightforward of these two, provided the catalogue…

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