Dear colleagues,
I am working as Senior Library Assistant at the Modern History Faculty Library
of the University of Oxford. It is chiefly an undergraduate library, devoted
to resources in modern history and associated areas. I am interested, to help
with my PDR, in communicating with those of you who also work in history libraries,
or history and history-related departments within libraries, in
HE especially, as I feel that working in this discipline often brings up special
issues of its own (different, say, to working in a library for sciences, or
even English).
I mean things affecting how the service is run (for example,
at Oxford the history syllabus is very prescriptive, with many core/set texts,
and little project/group work, so there are not a great deal of subject-
and resource-type -based queries for us to help with...).
I'd be very grateful for any help on this; responses from those of you working
in local studies or history-related sections of public libraries, and specialist
'private' libraries, would be very interesting too.
And if I can help any one else with professional issues, I'll try and return
the favour.
Thank you
Suzanne Eckersley.
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