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Visiting the office

Posted on July 30, 2020 (July 30, 2020) by Karen Pierce

This week (29th July) I was able to visit my office for the first time since 17th March. The building I normally work in isn’t a library, but the first floor is dedicated to the ‘back office’ staff of the library service.  Here you will find cataloguers and acquisitions staff, the inter-library loans team, open-access, […]

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Furlough

Posted on July 17, 2020 (July 30, 2020) by Amy

What was it like to be on furlough? https://www.fortherecord.wales/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/furlough.mp3Title: furlough […]

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Catalogue & Index – the first issue

Posted on July 17, 2020 (July 17, 2020) by Karen Pierce

Trawling through back issues in order to write an article for C&I no. 200 […]

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CKG in the Time of Covid

Posted on July 17, 2020 (July 17, 2020) by Alison King

My first year as a CKG judge has been an absolute whirlwind – and that’s without factoring in the global pandemic! I spent last summer buried in books, which is my favourite place to be, and this year looks set to be just the same. Lost in those pages, I travelled far and wide from […]

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Community buddies

Posted on July 17, 2020 (August 11, 2020) by Alexandra

My job has definitely changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.  I work in a single staffed branch library so it was impossible to work from home.  Instead we were redeployed as community buddies, shopping for people in the community.  It is a role that is perfect for library staff, as we have excellent customer care skills […]

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Remote access to special collections

Posted on July 11, 2020 (August 11, 2020) by Kristine Chapman

Helping out a student based in Germany interested in one of our 16th century books – these types of queries are my favourite! […]

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Committee Meeting!

Posted on July 8, 2020 (July 8, 2020) by Amy

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Ebook metadata…

Posted on July 8, 2020 (July 17, 2020) by Amy

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The home office – reinvigorated

Posted on July 3, 2020 (July 30, 2020) by Karen Pierce

I’ve been working from home since Tuesday 17th March.  I’d been feeling twitchy for a few days prior to this, and increasingly uncomfortable about travelling on packed commuter trains. On the Monday I left the office taking home a variety of papers and documents that I knew would be useful for working from home, I […]

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Acceptance

Posted on June 26, 2020 (July 8, 2020) by yellowwallpaper

So it looks like we’ll be WFH for a good few months yet. This has made me rethink the whole thing. I can’t ‘camp out’ in the dining room any more. I can’t keep using my phone ear buds for 6 hours a day. I can’t just use scraps of paper which are now piled […]

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