Some book shelf solutions

Ah, the joys of Crib Candy – so many pretty things appear in my feed reader!

Of course, as a library geek, I keep a note of the nicest shelving solutions…hey, you never know when my employers might go mad and demand a redesign of the Library using only eco-friendly materials, or one entirely suspended from the ceiling, right?!?!

So, here’s some of the most interesting book shelves that I’ve seen recently.

Diagonal Bookshelves

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Slat shelf

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Rotating Bookshelf

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Rotating Shelving System

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Double Access shelf

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Leaf Shelf (with perhaps a OTT claim – “Available in all leaves of the known universe.”

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Leaves Bookshelves

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Bamboo Bookshelves

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Think that’s enough for now…more to follow!

UK Library Blogs update

I’m continuing to add to this list, as and when I can, and trawl through those already on the list to check for changes since the last visit / my mistakes in the collection of the initial list (my apologies to Neil Infield for accidentally renaming him to Ian!)

Also, I received an email telling me to look at FADE Library‘s great work on collecting UK health library blogs, which I will(with their kind permission) also add in to the overall list (and blog about in a later post) to try and make it as comprehensive as possible. Unfortunately, my email provider went squiffy and deleted the original email before I could reply, so I don’t know who to credit for alerting me to this massive piece of work by the FADE staff, and also means their own blog details were zapped! If this was you, please can you get back in touch so I can add your blog, and say thank you personally!

Mary Queen of Scots…


…got ‘er ‘ead chopped OFF!

Well, she did in my childhood, while I viciously beheaded poor, innocent dandelions!

And yesterday, the Scottish Government presented a copy of the Death Warrant for Mary to the Blairs Museum in Aberdeen, while the original will stay in Lambeth Palace in London.

Hmmm….maybe time to do a little touristy sightseeing during my next trip in January?

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Capital Collections

From the Edinburgh City Libraries website comes news of Capital Collections, “an exciting website giving online access to some of the amazing and unique prints including photographs, engravings and drawings held by Edinburgh City Libraries.”

As a resident of Leith, which has been undergoing insane roadworks to install an unwanted tram network for 2 years now, and facing another 3 years of them before completion in 2011, this photo is pretty topical right now. It certainly feels like they’ve been messing with the roads non-stop since this photo was taken in 1904!