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Grow and Learn with Professional Registration

CILIP

Grow and Learn with Professional Registration An upgraded skillset, a new set of challenges, and long-term career goals are some of the benefits Shanice Muir, Library Services Adviser at Anglia Ruskin University Library Services, gained while undertaking Professional registration at CILIP.

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Remembrance through cultural memory: First World War commemorated by Preservica users

Preservica

Of course central to this is ensuring we do not forget the sacrifice made by so many. And 1,868 women were employed during the course of the war. Transport for London (TfL). Tamara Thornhill, corporate archivist at TfL, discussed the company’s captivating wartime history.

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2021 - A year in review

CILIP

We have also been able to grow our influence in Westminster and the Devolved Administrations, particularly thanks to the re-launch of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Libraries, Information and Knowledge (APPG LInK) ? which has given us a platform to engage with dozens of policymakers during the course of the year.

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I Have A Kindle Now. But I Won't Read A Book On It. Discuss.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Perhaps that's a bit too sweeping: Put another way, I don't ever want to read a book that I would ever want to share or keep - one that I'd want to put on my shelf in my library at home. Newspapers and magazines? Countless books have been written about this mystery of the book as artifact , of course.).

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A Boy’s Song

Archives Blogs

This collection – a handful of boxes –surveys the lives of several generations in a British family that lived and worked and fought wars in India, England, France, and Iraq over the course of about 150 years. The family lived in London for many years while his father was writer and the editor (for 20 years) at “The Builder ” magazine.

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Incredible adventures, incredible journeys – India and beyond

CILIP

magazine about her fiction and her involvement with India, Incredible India and why it is so important to bring the story of the country to life for children and young people. As a little girl growing up in Nottingham, I was an avid reader and a member of the local library. Jasbinder spoke to CILIP's Pen&inc.

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Sergeant Dennis Fisher and Marine Corps Combat Photography in Vietnam

Unwritten Record

Wilson Hicks who was the former executive editor of Life Magazine. I met him in his role as advisor to student publications, primarily the Ibis yearbook, Tempo magazine, and Hurricane newspaper. 45 automatic pistol and two extra magazines, two or three canteens, gas mask, jungle first aid kit, and a K-Bar knife.