Entries from The Caird Library Blog tagged with 'Library'
November's Item of the Month
It is certainly well known that the National Maritime Museum holds a superb and precious collection of objects, paintings and manuscripts. However, it is not as well known that among the Museum's Library and Manuscript collections are valuable, occasionally priceless,...
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Posted by Richard on November 24, 2011 12:04 PM
October's Item of the Month
October's item of the month is a fascinating insight into life on board a Royal Navy aircraft carrier in the inter-war years. It is a binder containing 35 consecutive issues of Eagle Weekly, a magazine written, printed and sold on...
Posted by Richard on October 24, 2011 4:49 PM
Moving into the new Caird Library
Over the past ten weeks, the new reading room facility in the Sammy Ofer Wing has been transformed from an empty white box into the new Caird Library. Tables, chairs, lockers, a document scanner and even a touch screen viewer...
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Posted by Gareth on July 4, 2011 11:31 AM
July's item of the month: Pictures of Greenwich Night Pageant, 1933
July's item of the month is a souvenir pamphlet produced in 1933 for the 'Greenwich Night Pageant', arranged by the historian and journalist Arthur Bryant as self-styled 'Pageant Master'. Set against the illuminated background of the (now Old) Royal Naval College,...
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Posted by Richard on July 9, 2010 11:02 AM
Earlier closure dates for the Library
Further update on 4 December 2008: New Caird Library opening hoursWith the exciting news of the HLF grant towards the building of the Sammy Ofer Wing, the project, to include state of the art library and archive facilities, is firmly...
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Posted by Eleanor on October 15, 2008 1:00 PM
New Reader Services Librarian
After a fortnight of shaking hands and introductions all around the National Maritime Museum, I'd like to introduce myself to readers of The Caird Library Blog: I'm Gareth Bellis and I have joined the Archive and Library Team as Reader...
Posted by Gareth on September 23, 2008 8:43 AM
Should we change our opening hours?
If you've visited the Caird Library recently you'll know that in July and August we were on 'summer hours', where we close an hour later than usual at 5.45 pm. This is something that we now do every year to...
Posted by Renee on September 25, 2007 9:09 AM
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