Welcome to the Heythrop Library blog. This blog covers a broad range of subjects, from behind-the-scenes information to discoveries in the collection to reflections from the librarians.
You can also explore all posts written by each contributor, by clicking on their name:
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Previous contributors
- Julian Allen (until 30 April 2025)
- Naomi Hart (until 1 February 2025)
- Katherine Vinten (until 15 February 2026)
Below are displayed the last 6 blog posts:
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Work experience behind-the-scenes
Here at the Heythrop Library, we have been offering work experience placements for a few years now for those keen to explore a career in the library sector. We are open in theory to anyone aged 16 and over who may feel they would benefit from working with us. In practise, you might be wondering…
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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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User survey 2026 : our users
In May 2026 we invited 361 library users (those with active accounts) to respond to a user survey, and 101 people replied. We will share the findings, their responses and our comments (where appropriate) to this user survey 2026. We have used our blog a couple of times to write about our users, but when…
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Subject list: Theology 1
This is another instalment in a series of us providing subject lists of (post-2000) books we have added in the last seven months (since 1 October 2025, the beginning of our financial year). The list is sorted by date of publication. We hope that these lists will help to share what we have bought or added in…
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Captain’s log #7
You won’t believe this! Unless you are one of the Heythrop Library Crew, a member of the Heythrop Library Committee, or a Trustee of the Jesuits in Britain, you will not know how much it costs to run the Heythrop Library. Most people might assume that we get some kind of funding, but a lot…
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Our Journals : Catholic historical review
In Our journals we introduce you to all our journals; currently, there are over 140 live journals we subscribe to. If you would like to explore this series, please click on https://heythroplibrary.co.uk/tag/our-journals/. Title of journal Catholic historical review Published since 1915 ISSN 0008-8080 (print) & 1534-0708 (online) Held at the Heythrop Library since 2001 Our catalogue record https://hey.koha.openfifth.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=80021 Subject(s) covered Catholic theology,…
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