Oral histories of 5 UK public libraries and how they're changing, from people who use, work in and run them. Follow-on from Memories of Fiction (AHRC, 2014-18).
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(Belatedly), this finally marks the end of the @LivingLibs project. Public libraries & their workers pick up so many of the pieces of our persistently underfunded services while facing continuing cuts, restructuring, closures. They’re extraordinary, underestimated AND STATUTORY.
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Anyway, a @gdnlongread is good and everything but FUND PUBLIC LIBRARIES! THEY ARE STATUTORY UNDER THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS ACT 1964! IT'S THE LAW! and also no library hand-wringing without joining your public library, please
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Jolyne and Victoria here reflecting on Storyhouse in Chester and Peterborough's branch and central libraries. I really loved working on this project
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And if you want to know more about libraries and mental health, cuts to services, digital inclusion, etc, there's an oral history archive at the British Library (possibly, erm, not available just now...)
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You can hear some of their stories and read our project's policy recommendations on the site I made back in the early weeks of the first lockdown
livinglibraries.uk
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This made me think so much about all the wonderful people we interviewed for @LivingLibs back in 2019-20 theguardian.com/news/article…
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TWO WEEK COUNTDOWN: The deadline for applications to this @ahrcpress CDP is Friday 31 May.
Come & work with me & an excellent team on a fully-funded PhD scholarship with @portsmouthtoday on the history of Portsmouth's public libraries.
To apply, follow link in the quoted post
I am delighted to share this fully-funded PhD on 'Portsmouth's public libraries in the long 20th century'.
An @ahrcpress CDP with me, @Ben01Davies @portsmouthuni, & Michael Gunton & Clare Liddell @portsmouthtoday
The full project description is here:
port.ac.uk/study/postgraduat…
Logging back in to our @livinglibs account to share this!
I am delighted to share this fully-funded PhD on 'Portsmouth's public libraries in the long 20th century'.
An @ahrcpress CDP with me, @Ben01Davies @portsmouthuni, & Michael Gunton & Clare Liddell @portsmouthtoday
The full project description is here:
port.ac.uk/study/postgraduat…
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Yesterday marked 3yrs of working in Libraries (specifically public libraries). And I've posted before about how much I love it, how deciding to take the step into the profession literally changed my life, for the better....
But I want to share a longish story about yesterday 1/9
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“Libraries and museums to be ‘warm havens’ for people struggling with energy bills”. From the same government whose funding cuts have closed 800 libraries - a fifth of those in the UK - since 2010… theguardian.com/business/202… – at Edinburgh, Scotland
Hello, little flurry of new followers! We won't be posting much on this account any more, aside from the odd public libraries-related RT, but you can reach us on @pykelets and/or @ShelleyTrower2 if you have questions about the project, livinglibraries.uk or our future plans
In a tough week for higher education in the UK, it is good to be reminded just why we believe in this research and how much we loved collaborating with excellent colleagues like @LauraBombora. Thank you @a_bit_lit and @andykesson!
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‘I come to the library to keep warm’: Norfolk residents battling fuel poverty theguardian.com/society/2022…
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"People take problems of all shapes and sizes to the library – personal, practical, environmental, epistemological – searching for answers, advice or support that they are often unable to access anywhere else."
Me, for @BL_OralHistory, on public libraries, cuts, crises + Covid.
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There is a collection of interviews/statements on libraries at the @soundarchive of the British Library, gathered by the @livinglibs project which just finished.
(Belatedly), this finally marks the end of the @LivingLibs project. Public libraries & their workers pick up so many of the pieces of our persistently underfunded services while facing continuing cuts, restructuring, closures. They’re extraordinary, underestimated AND STATUTORY.
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(Belatedly), this finally marks the end of the @LivingLibs project. Public libraries & their workers pick up so many of the pieces of our persistently underfunded services while facing continuing cuts, restructuring, closures. They’re extraordinary, underestimated AND STATUTORY.
New blog post by Dr Sarah Pyke, of the Living Libraries project, University of Roehampton, which ran from 2019 to 2020. blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision…
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very interesting project about public libraries
New blog post by Dr Sarah Pyke, of the Living Libraries project, University of Roehampton, which ran from 2019 to 2020. blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision…
Thanks to @BL_OralHistory for all your support ✨
New blog post by Dr Sarah Pyke, of the Living Libraries project, University of Roehampton, which ran from 2019 to 2020. blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision…
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Borough libraries began lending books to shelters during the Blitz. In Feb 1940, St Pancras introduced the first Travelling Library Van (‘A Library to your Door’). And after Bethnal Green library was bombed, they created a new version, underground. (Photos from @LBTHArchives).
