BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:614@m25lib.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150529T114500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150529T163000 DTSTAMP:20170315T121035Z URL:https://www.m25lib.org.uk/events/unknown-special-collections-british-l ibrary-event-ref-tg4bl/ SUMMARY:Into The Unknown: Special Collections at the British Library [Event Ref. No. TG4/BL] DESCRIPTION:Twitter – #cpd25BL\n\ncpd25 is pleased to present a unique in sight into the inner workings of the British Library. This visit will take you around various parts of the building and there will be presentations from some of the librarians here. You will hear from three special collect ion Librarians about the work they are doing. You will also hear from a sp ecial guest speaker\, Dr Gordon Gill\, a reader who visits from America to use the reading rooms.\n\n \;\n\nProgramme:\n\n1145-1200 – Delegat es meet in the main hall (coats and bags must be placed in the locker room s)\n\n1205-1300 – About us\n\nDiscover more about our history\, collect ions and architecture on a tour of the public areas of the Library. http:/ /www.bl.uk/aboutus/index.html \n\n1300-1400 – Aquiles Alencar-Brayner\, Digital Curator\n\nAquilies will discuss how libraries are using new tech nology to change the ways people can interact with manuscript. Focusing hi s attention on digital projects led by the British Library. He will talk a bout innovative tools such as the Mechanical Curator and how his team seat about communicating with library users through existing social media and other digital platforms. http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-schol arship/index.html \n\n1400-1415 – Tea Break\n\n1415-1500 – Christian Algar\, Rare Books and Music Team\n\nChristian has a keen interest in Ply mouth and tales of the sea. He regularly presents workshops on finding Ear ly Printed Material in the Library’s collections. Christian is part of t he Rare Books Reference Team and deals with Western printed material publi shed between the 15th Century and 1914 – this includes many of the Libra ry’s Treasures\, the likes of which can be seen in the permanent exhibit ion spaces in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery and through the glass on the sh elves of the King’s Tower in the public area of the Library. He will be talking about a small number of objects selected from the British Library ’s early printed collections. There will be 15th Century books\; fine bi ndings\; fascinating marginalia\; old newspapers and\, of course\, some Sh akespeare. https://twitter.com/bl_ref_services   \n\n1500-1520 – Ja imee McRoberts\, Newspaper Reference Team\n\nJaimee has worked with the Li brary for many years and was the sole Reference Librarian in the Colindale Newspaper Library and now works as part of the News Reference Team in the newly opened Newsroom in St Pancras. She regularly presents workshops on locating news material in the collections and using the news databases suc h as the British Newspaper Archive. Her talk will help you learn more abou t the Newsroom and the history of its collections. http://www.bl.uk/collec tion-guides/newspapers  \n\n1520-1600 – Steven Dryden\, Sound and Vis ion Team\n\nSteven’s interests include live and performance art. He is p art of the sound archive team. He has worked on several projects including Roving Reference\, Mobile Tech in Libraries and Academic books of the Fut ure. He does live recordings at festivals and theatres including WOMAD\, B attersea arts centre\, and Chelsea theatre. His talk will be about the wor k he does and he will highlight some interesting items from our sound coll ections. http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/soundarch/about/soundarchive.html \n\n1600-1615 – Dr Gordon Gill\n\nDr Gill has lectured on a variety of courses on the History of the Caribbean and the African Diaspora. He is cu rrently working on a book manuscript “Restructuring the Swamp: Labor\, R esistance &\; Identity in the Slave Society of British Guiana\, 1800-18 34”. He visits the library 3 times a year from America for his research. He will give a presentation about his experiences as a user of the librar y and how it aids in the work he does.\n\n \;\n\n \n\nThere is an opt ional visit to the Magna Carta Exhibition at the end\, please indicate if you plan to visit the Magna Carta as we need to book slots for this to ens ure you have a place. http://www.bl.uk/events/magna-carta--law-liberty-leg acy\n\nThis exhibition was put together by the Manuscript curator team\, p lease see their blog http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscri pts/2015/04/ten-things-to-know-about-medieval-monsters.html \n\n \n\nVen ue:\n\nBritish Library\, 96 Euston Road\, London NW1 2DB\n\nhttp://www.bl. uk/whatson/planyourvisit/findlibrary/index.html\n\n \;\n\nCost:\n\n£6 5 for members and £98 for other institutions.\n\nCancellations less than one week before the event will be charged a 50% cancellation fee. In the e vent of a ‘no-show’ on the day\, the full fee will be charged.\n\nTo b ook a place please use our online booking form or email the administrator via cpd25@london.ac.uk CATEGORIES:cpd25 Events LOCATION:British Library\, 96 Euston Rd\, London\, NW1 2DB\, United Kingdom GEO:51.5297852;-0.12737479999998413 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=96 Euston Rd\, London\, NW1 2DB\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=British Library:geo:51.52 97852,-0.12737479999998413 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20150329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR