When someone says library, everyone automatically thinks of words, yet what about numbers. Numbers can reveal just as much history as the words in the books. Recently it has been discovered that The Library offers tours for those who wish to learn more about the place where students spend up to 8 million minutes last … Continue reading “Numbers Lost in a World of Words”
The University of Lincoln library has not always been a library, as previously discussed it used to be an Old Goods Warehouse, so therefore time has played huge part on this building. But by how much? I conducted a little experiment with time based within the library. In the early hours of Monday morning I … Continue reading “Time in the library”
After visiting the library for the last year and a half, I was pretty sure that there was nothing there that I hadn’t seen. That was until I started to really explore. The library has a lot of character if you look close enough. You can still see that it used to be a railway … Continue reading “Silence on the third floor?”
No library is complete without books, shelf upon shelf of pages filled with voices and opinions. Every book has a story to tell, whether that be a biography, a historical journal or an encyclopedia. But this provided me with the question with “What if books could talk?” you could debate their story with them personally … Continue reading “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?”
It has been a century since The Great Central Goods and Grain Warehouse was in operation, yet the importance of the building has never decreased in its ranks. Originally the warehouse was fundamental to the to the industrial sector of Lincoln and the Brayford area. As a fully operational warehouse in 1907, however as the … Continue reading “A Spectacular”