FROM THE LIBRARY Liz Osman, Librarian create The Little Library. Housed on trolleys in an accessible space, The Little Library was a selection of adult and children’s fiction, DVDs and our Wellbeing Collection, covering everything from coping with anxiety to recipe books. This ran on an honesty basis for everyone remaining on site until the Library re-opened.
Liz raided the archives for an online talk on Pantomime
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t certainly has been a strange way to spend my tenth year at Homerton, one that I’d be happy not to repeat, although it has brought with it opportunities to reflect and adapt too. January and February seem a lifetime ago, but the start of the year saw myself and my Deputy Rosie Austin presenting at the Cambridge Libraries Conference on our involvement in an ARHC project considering diversity in children’s literature rare books collections such as our own, and issues around digitisation. Unsurprisingly, our collection is not diverse, and contains a fair amount of challenging material reflecting opinions and attitudes of earlier times. The project continues and we are awaiting more analysis of our holdings from the research assistant so we can explore how we can address the issue and create a better balance of material. February also saw me trial my first sessions using Lego as a tool for study skills education. It may not seem obvious that being asked to build a duck out of Lego can be helpful in finding sources and referencing work correctly, but it can! The teaching was well received and I’m looking forward to delivering more. Then came Covid, and a rapid succession of plans for ‘amber’ and ‘red’ levels, mostly thrown out the window as we quickly shifted to a full closure. I can’t praise my team enough for being calm, efficient and supportive, and continuing to give their all to help students as they left College. One small thing we were able to do as we packed up and closed the doors was to
