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Reports and College Activities Credit: John Cairsns A YEAR IN THE LIBRARY Dr Matthew Shaw College Librarian The year has been marked by a return to the usual patterns of activity in the Library, despite the challenges of the Delta and Omicron variants – from inductions and tours in Michaelmas Term to the packed desks of Sixth and Seventh Weeks as junior members prepare for exams. While the Library has been able to operate almost as usual during the pandemic, we finished Hilary Term with the removal of social distancing limits on seating in the New Library reading room, and with it the end of special measures. We have retained some things, such as a popular ‘click and collect’ service outside of the library for busy students, intelligent use of Teams video calling and imaging for remote researchers, and a better understanding of healthy ventilation and monitoring of air quality in the reading rooms: there is now even less of an excuse to fall asleep at one’s desk in the fug of an overwarm, under-oxygenated library. The collections continue to grow. In part due to the donation of several collections resulting from the changeover of some Fellows’ rooms, over 800 volumes have been processed and added to the collections by our librarians. These have been augmented by increased access to digital books and other online resources, working in collaboration with other college libraries and the Bodleian Libraries. Circulation of physical books among readers have also returned to pre-pandemic levels. Contributing to the social life of the College, a small collection of board games, such as Mysterion, can also be borrowed from the New Library, and the Library has investigated and augmented its Ukrainian collections (some of which were on display in the Hall during the coffee and cake morning in aid of the Red Cross Ukrainian appeal). Existing collection items continue to give up their secrets, such as the provenance of a folio of Piranesi engravings, or the prior ownership of several rare books by Robert Southey, the poet laureate from 1813 to 1843 who, like the College, possesses a strong connection to the Lake District. The discovery of an account of a College bicycle ride in the Historical Society minute book from 1922 led to the ride’s centennial re-enactment in June 2022 by Fellows, staff and Old Members. Sadly, the ferry at Bablock Hythe exploited by the earlier cyclists was no longer running. Books (and manuscripts) have also been out on display in the Upper Library. In Michaelmas Term, the Library celebrated the work and career of Prince Akiki Nyabongo: novelist, ethnologist, and Ugandan administrator who studied at Queen’s in the 1930s. The exhibition featured on BBC South News, made use of photographs provided by Nyabongo’s son, and it included a curatorial tour and discussions for the JCR. In Hilary Term, we contributed to the College’s sustainable food initiative, with a display on ‘Dining Right’, drawing on the Library’s collection of JCR suggestions 40 The Queen’s College | College Record 2022
Reports and College Activities ‘Africa Answers Back’ exhibition The ‘Dining Right’ exhibition Credit: John Cairns books (seasonable vegetables was one idea from the 1950s) and reaching back as far as the fifteenth century, with Edward IV’s manuscript instructions to his kitchen: ‘let there be no wast[e]’ (MS 134). Trinity Term explored ‘Cummerland Talk’: the dialects of the north west, curated by Library Assistant Dr Felix Taylor, and which College Record 2022 | The Queen’s College 41
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