But what do you do all day? Our third lockdown diary
June 29, 2020
This is the third in a series of blogs looking at the work that Manuscripts and Special Collections staff have been doing from home, and we are once again focussing on the additions to our manuscripts catalogue. New Online Catalogue In the first of this series of blogs, I talked about the planned upgrade to our archival management software, …
But what do you do all day? – Our second lockdown diary
June 10, 2020
This is the second of our lockdown diaries, looking at the work that staff in Manuscripts and Special Collections have been doing since we switched to home-working. In last week’s blog the focus was on cataloguing; this week I want to look at some of the behind-the-scenes work that we’ve been doing to improve the …
But what do you do all day? Our Lockdown Diary
June 1, 2020
We closed the doors to our reading room at 5pm on Friday 20th March and since then all our members of staff have been working from home. Now, in the first of a series of blogs, we want to update you on what we’ve been working on whilst socially-distancing from our beloved archive and rare book …