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A blog about the work and collections of the National Library of Wales.
Due to the more personal nature of blogs it is the Library's policy to publish postings in the original language only. An equal number of blog posts are published in both Welsh and English, but they are not the same postings. For a translation of the blog readers may wish to try facilities such as Google Translate.
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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Roy Davids Sale at Bonhams
There has been a huge sale today at Bonhams of the Davids Collection. This is an amazingly diverse and eclectic group of papers and portraits covering a fantastic range of personalities and periods.He wrote an insightful essay on collecting as … Continue reading
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DEEDS AND DOCUMENTS
When you have exhausted the maps and the visual images of the area in which you are interested,what is left to help you trace your family and the lands on which they lived? The answer is the deeds and documents … Continue reading
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PAINTINGS AND SO ON…
BLOG 17 MARCH In my map blog of 11 March, I said I would discuss the visual images held by the Library. I use the term visual images quite deliberately because although there are different types of imagery, their subject … Continue reading
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Yemen: Charles & Patricia Aithie
25 September 2010 – 2 April 2011 Tell us a bit about the exhibition It is around 50 -55 pictures of people and places in Yemen. What aspects attract you to the middle and Far East? Everything is different to … Continue reading
Posted in News and Events
How hard can it be to count heads?
On 27 March 2011 the UK will conduct the latest (perhaps the last) in a series of censuses stretching back to 1801. People tend to remember the problems with recent censuses. The million or so people thought to have avoided … Continue reading
Posted in Archives and Manuscripts
Re-launching the Health and Well-being Forum
In my last two blogs (22 January & 3 March) I discussed two of the Human Resources Unit’s key projects for the 2011-12 financial year. A further focus area during that time will be the re-launch of the Health and … Continue reading
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Time to Appraise the Appraisal
In my last blog (22 January) I introduced the Library’s new Talent Management software, TalentLab, and explained that it will initially be used to conduct an online staff skills and knowledge survey within a pilot group in Collections Services. The … Continue reading
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