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:
Current contributors
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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User survey 2026: access to specialist faith-based resources
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. For the third post in the series, we focused on access to specialist faith-based resources. One…
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Our Journals : Cistercian studies quarterly
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 Cistercian studies quarterly Published since 1966 ISSN 1062-6549 Held at the Heythrop Library since 1979 Our catalogue record https://hey.koha.openfifth.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=60064 Subject(s) covered Christian monasticism, Cistercian beliefs and practices,…
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Top most-circulated items
We measure any of our libraries activities, normally from 1 October of any year to the 30 September of the next year (that’s our financial year, and London Jesuit Centre teaching spans usually from mid-October to mid-July). The top 5 most-circulated items are: 1. The spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius 2. Understanding the Spiritual Exercises…
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Logistics management
Whether you have read some of our posts about our off-site stores, or have seen our page about how to access materials, you will hopefully realize that the Heythrop Library’s collections of over 200,000 are spread over four locations: When a full-paid or free-full member requests materials from Crown or Deepstore, a staff member at the Library needs…
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Subject list: Christianity 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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First officer’s log #2
First officer’s log #2. 31 July 2026. The LJC teaching year has finally drawn to a close earlier this month, and with it, the regular classes that take place at the Centre have taken a break for the summer. This means that with slightly fewer in-person visitors to the library to deal with, July and August…
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