News and Views
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Published Date
- December 19, 2014
New acquisition: Actress Billie Whitelaw’s Beckett archive
The University of Reading and the Beckett International Foundation are delighted to announce the purchase of a unique archive of…
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- December 17, 2014
A trip to the SS Great Britain
This post comes from David, our Graduate Trainee Library Assistant. Each year, our teams visit a few other collections to…
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- December 8, 2014
New acquisition: ‘King Arthur’s Wood’
Written by Fiona Melhuish, UMASCS Librarian. One of our most recent acquisitions for the Children’s Collection will also be one…
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- November 25, 2014
Life behind the scenes and beyond …
Today’s post comes from our Library Assistant Helen, who has a special interest in books about illustration and design and…
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- November 11, 2014
World War One: Special Collections library resources
Written by Claire Wooldridge, UMASCS Graduate Trainee 4 August 2014 marked the centenary of the day that Britain entered World…
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- November 6, 2014
Garlands of Gold and Circles of Pearls: The Rosalind Laker Collection
Written by Claire Wooldridge, UMASCS Graduate Trainee I have recently finished cataloguing a wonderful collection of books by the historical…
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- October 31, 2014
Happy #MusHalloween!
Happy #MusHalloween! We marked the #MusSpooks @CultureThemes day this week on 29 October. Here are a selection of spooky halloween #MusSpooks and…
