It’s a year of anniversaries at the National Library this year. As you probably know by now, the Library will be celebrating a hundred years since the laying of the foundation stone on Friday with a big cwtsh of the building. Before then, however, the National Screen and Sound Archive, tomorrow lunchtime, will present a showing of how the National Library has been portrayed on film and television over the whole of the century, from 1911 to the present day.
This is the Archive’s contribution to this week of celebration, but it is also part of our own celebration of the tenth anniversary of the NSSAW. We have many events lined up for the year, details of which you will find on both the Library and the Archive’s websites.
Compared to manuscripts, and even books, we may be very much the new kid on the block in many ways; however, it’s good to remember that the earliest days of this institution were captured on film and are in themselves priceless documents of our own history.
There is some fairly recently acquired early material (1937) that we will be showing, as well as a filmic progress report of how working practices, and indeed technology, have developed over the years.
You are most welcome – but please make sure you have a ticket (which is free!) before you come.