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  • A box of uncatalogued historic journals, ready be indexed and catalogued onto our system. Photo by SV.

    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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  • Photo of the back of a woman reaching for a book on the shelf.

    A Day in the Life: Assistant Librarian

    This ‘A Day in the Life’ post shares what a typical working day might look like for Heythrop Library’s Assistant Librarian. Although no two days are the same, the following timetable offers a glimpse into how I organise my work, in addition to handling reader enquiries (in person, emails, phone calls) throughout the day.  9:30-10:00…

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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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