Monthly Archives: November 2010

Highgate School

Following his training at the Slade in 1944, Kyffin secured a post as art master at Highgate School in London. His description of this opportunity …

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TEI conference at Zadar, Croatia

I have just returned from the Text Encoding Initiative Annual Conference held at the University of Zadar, the oldest university in Croatia, situated in a …

Posted in Digitisation |

Collective Collections Care

In my last post, I talked about the role of the Collections Care section in ensuring the sustainability of our holdings. In this post, I …

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Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day, held on the fourth Thursday in November, is one of the most celebrated holidays in the United States. For millions of …

Posted in Digitisation |

Pests, bugs and viruses

There is a story, possibly apocryphal, that the phrase “computer bug” derived from the discovery of a  moth in a computer which was stopping it …

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Hollywood Star visits the Library

As this seasons Drwm programme draws to an end, last night, actor and film star Matthew Rhys visited the Library to promote his recent book …

Posted in News and Events |

J B WILLANS GLASS NEGATIVES

It is suprising the picture that can be painted of someone from a collection of jumbled and diverse glass negatives. J B Willans, who photographed …

Posted in Collections |

Art Nouveau, naughty students and the KGB

I have just returned from the Latvian capital Riga, where I was invited to present a paper at the Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council’s annual conference, …

Posted in Collections |

Copyright and Kyffin’s personal collection

As part of my work I am responsible for copyright research within Kyffin Williams’s personal collection, that is the works of other artists which he …

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Hello Wrexham!

On a wet and blustery Thursday afternoon, I ventured up to Wrexham to prepare for an Open Evening at the Guildhall. The evening itself was …

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