Tag: collections
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Joint Open Day : 7 October 2026
Read more: Joint Open Day : 7 October 2026On Wednesday 7 October 2026 from 10:30am until 4:30pm, Heythrop Library and the British Jesuit Archives are holding a joint open day to allow anyone who is interested an exceptional opportunity to see relics, rare books, historical documents as well as modern books. It is also a chance to see both reading rooms and to…
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Logistics management
Read more: Logistics managementWhether 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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Cataloguing update: investigations in stenography
Read more: Cataloguing update: investigations in stenographyAt 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.