Part 3 of the write-up of our trainee projects is out now!
Some trainees were tidying up library collections, one was helping readers navigate the @TAYOxford , and one was deepdiving into all things the @SainsburyLib !
Read this here👇
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Here's Part 2 of our trainee projects for the year!
Including: investigating offprints owned by a prominent Old Norse-Icelandic Studies scholar, widening access to special collections @StJohnsOxLib & launching the @BodArtLib account!✨
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Now that our traineeship year is wrapping up, we thought we'd bring you along to our trainee showcase to explore the culmination of our work: our trainee projects!
Read about the first four below, more coming out over the next two weeks! 👇
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From exploring Northern Irish collections @thelawbod, to the importance of cataloguing @LibAllSouls, promoting special collections @NewCollegeLib & developing a wellbeing collection at the Old Bod @bodleianlibraries - our trainee projects reflected a broad range of interests! 📚
🔔Graduate Trainee Opportunity!🔔
Are you looking for a trainee role? Check out this post @UniRdg_Library developing skills in aspects of library work with the Museum of English Rural Life and Special Collections @UniRdg_SpecColl 📚
Find out more👇
jobs.ac.uk/job/DIZ711/gradua…
Happy National Cheese and Wine Day!
You can celebrate in fabulous fashion in @bodleianlibs Special Collections, with a pairing of Ted Hughes' 'Laureate's Choice' Oloroso Seco Sherry and (of course) the infamous '20 Slices'.
(n.b. please don't eat our special collections!)
ALT The '20 Slices' book made of American cheese slices, next to a bottle of Laureate's Choice Oloroso Seco Sherry on a wooden table.
🔔Oxford trainee opportunity🔔
An exciting new graduate trainee role at the Bodleian libraries has come up in resource description.
⏰Deadline: 9th August
👉More info here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
Yesterday was the trainee showcase, where we had the chance to present the projects we have been working on in the past year!
It was fantastic and truly inspiring to hear about the diverse work going on across the different libraries in Oxford 😊
ALT Elena, the trainee at All Souls is standing behind a computer. Her presentation, entitled 'The Importance of Cataloguing' is projected onto the screen.
ALT Lara, the trainee at the Law Library is standing behind a computer. The first slide of her presentation, entitled ''O Stranger from England why stand ye aghast' is projected onto the screen.
ALT Nia, the trainee at the Old bod is standing behind a computer on the left of the image. On the right of the image, we see the first slide of her presentation, entitled ''A wellbeing collection for the Bodleian Old Library and Radcliffe Camera'.
Today, some of us got the chance to visit @LibAllSouls and peruse the exhibition prepared by the All Souls Trainee
Focusing on how generations of librarians have dealt with information and metadata, it provided a fascinating insight into cataloguing through the ages!
ALT The main reading room of All Souls College Library, including two white statues, and two rows of sloping wooden desks and chairs.
ALT A view of the Radcliffe Camera through a window from the All Souls College Library Office. To the left of the image, there are two floors of bookshelves.
ALT A wooden, glass-topped display case. Inside the case, there is a 17th century amalgamated manuscript of papers opened to show an alphabetical index and a 1631 catalogue compiled by Humphrey Dyson.
That's a wrap on a busy week featuring not one but two Open Days!
It's always fun to deliver library tours on days like these, giving potential students an insight into the spaces and collections we have to offer.
🔔Graduate trainee opportunity🔔
The University of Bath is advertising for a graduate trainee library assistant to work primarily in their Library's Technical Services area.
⏰Deadline: 8th July
More details here: bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx…
Have you ever bought butter that turned out "to contain a snowball at its core"?
This description of how the sale of adulterated food changed over time is from the "Report on the State of Public Health in the City of Dublin for the year 1892".
#LibraryFinds@HistMedLibOx
ALT Text reading: "In 1872, the last year the Act of 1860 remained unamended, the number of convictions for the sale of adulterated food was 67, and the amount of fines imposed was £306 10s. During the ten years that the first food adulteration Act was in force in Dublin, there were hundreds of convictions obtained under it, notwithstanding its defects. The articles found to be adulterated were- milk, butter, tea, coffee, cocoa, mustard, flour, bread, arrowroot, confections, sugar, rum and wine. The milk was nearly always adulterated, not only with warer, but occasionally, though rarely, with other substances, namely, sugar, starchy matter, and salt. The butter contained excessive quantities of water and salt. On one occasion a sample was examined which contained the pulp of swedish turnip; and on another occasion a roll of butter was found to contain a snowball at its core. On several"
ALT A book with a brown patterned cover and title "Report upon the state of public health in the city of Dublin for the year 1892".
This week we visited @BodleianHCL Cairns Library and learnt how Outreach Librarians at healthcare libraries conduct literature reviews, go to meetings with medical staff to learn their research needs, and teach information skills - including from tea trolleys on busy wards!🏥📚
🔔Graduate Trainee Opportunity 🔔
Another chance to join the library traineeship programme here in Oxford with @OxUnionLibrary
⏰ Deadline: 8th July
More details here: oxford-union.org/resources/v…
Should you judge a book by its cover? 🤔
It was the vibrant binding of this volume on botany which attracted the trainee at @StJohnsOxLib, who opened it to discover these lovely pressed flowers and a handwritten note! 💐
#LibraryFinds
HB4/4.b.2.9
ALT A book opened to show two pages of Latin text and a sprig of a flower
ALT A book opened to show one page of printed Latin text and a scrap of paper bearing a handwritten note.
ALT A book opened to show a botanical illustration, featuring two plants, one with prominent flowers
ALT The green front cover of a book, featuring a decorative gold border. The book rests on a grey foam on a grey desk. The brown spine of another book is visible in the top right of the image.
This week the trainees visited the @OxUnionLibrary and Bodleian Electronic Archives and Manuscripts department.
It was fascinating to learn about library work in a historic student-led society, and the challenges of conserving born digital material for posterity!
Congratulations to the trainee @NewCollegeLib for curating this excellent exhibition examining mythical creatures across a range of Special Collections items, including medieval manuscripts, early printed works, maps and more! 🐲
Thank you so much to everyone who visited our ‘Mythical and Monstrous’ exhibition on Tuesday, curated by our Grad Trainee @JessHodgkinson_!
We hope you enjoyed seeing some weird and wonderful beasts in items from @NewCollegeOx’s fabulous library special collections 🦄
🔔Oxford Trainee Opportunity🔔
It’s not too late to be part of the 24/25 Oxford library traineeship programme📚
Jesus College Library is recruiting a Graduate Library Trainee!
⏰Deadline: 24th June
Read more here tinyurl.com/5adu6ynr
📜The trainees had an amazing time at the @bodleianlibs training this week typesetting and printing a sonnet at the letterpress workshop in the Schola Musicae📜
📰Did you know there are a number of book arts workshops in the Old Bod? bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/book-a…📰
ALT A photograph of a typeset printing block, with supports and re-enforcements to ensure the type remained tightly set in place. The type is made from lead, as is the frame and some supports, some are made from wood.
ALT Three trainees stand infront of cabinets full of type, they are typesetting their names by picking up letters and placing them in their supports in the correct manner.