Monday 13 February: Supervision with Professor Dudley. Library research (particularly verifying Goody sources). Monitor readings administration.
The description for the curatorial sessions I attended last week:
Historical Manuscripts
Arnold Hunt, Curator of Modern Historical Manuscripts: This session provides an overview of the historical manuscript collections of the British Library. An introduction to the electronic and printed finding aids, and on using the manuscripts reading room, will be followed by a discussion of how these sources can be used for a diverse range of historical research, with examples from the collections, and particular emphasis upon manuscript maps.
Newspaper Collections: printed and online resources
Ed King, Head of Newspaper Collections: The talk and workshop will look at the background to the Library's enormous collection of newspapers. The introduction will cover the formation of the collection; how the Library has now 4 million pages online, available free in our reading rooms and in UK HE institutions, and also available on a pay-per-view basis; and what we plan to do in the future regarding more digitisation of newspapers. The range of UK newspapers now available online covers the period 1700-1900, and the titles digitised provide a huge research resource. The session will explain how the selection of C19 newspaper titles for online access has been carried out so far. It will include live interaction with the files, with questions and answers.
Tuesday 14 February: Monitor readings--we are trying out external as well as internal readings. Current theory is that the documents are drawing the moisture from the atmosphere. Valentine’s Day. Returned to modest social media exchanges.
Wednesday 15 February: Social media updates. Worked on revisions to recent paper. Journal updates. Alex Woodall at Museum Studio Seminar, article for discussion: Interpretation and the Hermeneutic Turn by Cheryl Meszaros. Our department is losing its staff to some sort of professional training ‘intervention’. They will be gone five hours a day for the next three months.
Thursday 16 February: Was awakened early by different set of neighbours. (One set out, new set in?) Since I was up anyway, walked up to the campus library to return a late book and check out additional materials.
Friday 17 February: Disruptive Differences Conference/Symposium all day. Dr. Amy Jane Barnes will be added to department staff during the three months of 'Office Intervention' which commence on Monday 20 February.
Weekend: My updates are a bit threadbare this week! Especially given how full of discussion that this past week has been. I am afraid been doing a bit too much ‘social media’ recently, not enough actual work! I will try to do a better reflection upon this past week, next week.
