by Sharon Redgrave When the library was built in 1959 and then extended in the late 1960’s, talk of mobile phones, computers, eBooks, the Internet, and such like would have seemed like the stuff of science fiction. But in 2012, the world was a very different place. This was the year of the London Olympics. […]
Tag: Library history
By day, a lifted study-storehouse; night Converts it to a flattened cube of light. Whichever’s shown, the symbol is the same: Knowledge; a University; a name. Philip Larkin, 1983. On the Brynmor Jones Library, from Collected Poems, 1988. Larkin at 100 Given what would have been Larkin’s 100th birthday on the 9th of August 2022, […]