Hello All,
Some praise for librarians ...
The following appeared in a book review in the Independent on Sunday on 10
April.
-- The book is rooted in research, mostly undertaken in Tower Hamlets local
history library. "It's a great place, a cavern of treasures, and you never
go to the indexes, you tell the guys [sic] what you want and they just pull
it out for you. They know every book in it, every unpublished manuscript,
scrap of paper or photograph. You go in there and say, 'I've been looking
at this building ...' and they say, 'oh yeah, we've got these photos and
this is the story." --
The book is 'An Acre of Barren GroundI' by Jeremy Gavron and the full
article is at:
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/story.jsp?story=628190
Paul Manson
Medical Library
University of Aberdeen
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