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Posted on June 6, 2020March 13, 2021

Molly Hilton: Library Assistant by Bertha Lonsdale

First of all, let me put my cards on the table. I am a Chartered Librarian. I qualified in 1990 and gained my Charter in…

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Posted on April 18, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Fourteen

How dated is this cover?!  I never even thought about it when I first read See You Thursday by Jean Ure because I was a…

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Posted on April 18, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Thirteen

I had the very great pleasure of meeting Dan Smith when I was asked if I would like to host a couple of events on…

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Posted on December 15, 2018

15th December

I discovered the Drina books by Jean Estoril serendipitously in Lossiemouth Library as a child. I read them in a random order as and when…

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Posted on February 15, 2011

Emily Gravett

What a brilliant artist Emily Gravett is and what wonderful picture books she produces.  Her first book was Wolves.  Set in a library, it was,…

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Posted on November 15, 2010

Back Beside the Sea

As I write, it is a beautiful autumn day: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and there is scarcely a breeze.  The view…

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Posted on September 7, 2009September 9, 2009

Book Festivals and Book Launches

Over the last few weeks I've met and listened to about as many authors as I could cope with!  Without exception they've been lovely people…

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Posted on August 14, 2008October 21, 2008

IFLA

Yesterday I met Anne Shirley.  Well, not really, of course, but someone from Library and Archives Canada dressed up as her.  This year, of course,…

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