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.
Below are displayed the last 6 blog posts:
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Second officer’s log #2
One of the challenges I’ve recently faced as second officer (in charge of cataloguing), is to do with data cleaning. I took a training course on the library metadata editing software MarcEdit, in the hopes that it could help fix some common data issues in our catalogue records. I exported all of our library catalogue…
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Our Journals : Communio : international Catholic 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 Communio : international Catholic review Published since 1974 ISSN 0094-2065 Held at the Heythrop Library since 1974 Our catalogue record https://hey.koha.openfifth.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=43828 Subject(s) covered Christian theology, Catholic Church,…
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Subject list: Biblical Studies 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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Why we do not have many digital resources
For those who have looked up our catalogue or read parts of our web page covering collections, you will know that we do not provide access to any ebooks, or indeed many ejournals. There are links from our catalogue, when we have a printed copy of a book, and there is a freely-available digital version…
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Collections: Moral theology
In this post, and later posts in this series on Collections, we try to highlight areas in our collection which are either particular important to our Library’s holdings, or it is maybe not very obvious to the uninitiated that we would have books or journals on this area of theology or philosophy. We hope that our…
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Captain’s log #8
Captain’s log. 4 September 2026. As the Library has just turned 100, a slightly longer Captain’s log might be in order. The Library’s 100th is measured from the point of it being called Heythrop (College) Library, and your captain is coming up to his anniversary (21 September 2021, when he took his seat at the…
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- Julian Allen (until 30 April 2025)
- Naomi Hart (until 1 February 2025)
- Katherine Vinten (until 15 February 2026)
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