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Visit to Kings Ely and Ely Cathedral
The Graduate Trainees visits over the course of this year have covered an extremely wide range of libraries, allowing us to observe various working environments and pick the brains of library...
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Once we’d located the unobtrusive entrance to the consortium, in a building which is known as the ‘elephant pen’, we were welcomed by two of the conservators, Bridget Warrington and Elizabeth Bradshaw....
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Following our visit to the Cambridge Conservation Consortium at Corpus, we scooted across the road to the Whipple Library, the departmental library for the History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)....
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Visit to Cambridge University Press
As graduate library trainees, we’ve visited 21 different libraries and archives over the past year, and three conservation studios! What amazing experiences. Each visit was unique in its own way, and...
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Website makeover!
Regular readers of the CaTaLOG website may have noticed that it now has a new look! This is the product of months of hard work on the part of both myself and the other 2012-13 trainees. We decided back...
View ArticleEnd of year training summary
I haven’t really been as good at writing about the training I’ve received over the past year as I should have! Being a graduate trainee at a College library in Cambridge has meant that I have had the...
View ArticleGoodbye St John’s!
Well, this is it! The last day of my traineeship. It really has been a wonderful year, and I can’t emphasize enough how grateful I am for this experience. Where else in the world would I have been able...
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Final weeks as a Graduate Trainee
Time has marched on quickly – I can’t believe that it’s August already. I’ve finished the summer stock check (!) and have moved on to the mountain of processing jobs that have built up while I’ve been...
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Our time is running out…
It feels strange that already our group is significantly depleted, with only 4 trainees left now. As I begin the countdown to my last day at Trinity, I am suddenly aware of how much I still have left...
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So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye!
The Wren Library exterior, illuminated during Trinity May Ball Well, this is it. Final few days as a graduate trainee. What a year it has been. I couldn’t have asked for a better place to carry out my...
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