Archive for September, 2010

Books and their owners: a tiny link with the past

Books often have associations that mean more than the text between the covers. Another example surfaced recently.

Now that’s a lot of enquiries!

The National Library’s Ask a librarian service answers hundreds of offsite reference enquiries each month.  The majority of these enquiries are received via our online enquiry form, though we also receive reference enquiries by phone, letter, fax, email, and chat. To give an idea of figures, in August Library staff answered 2640 reference enquiries from [...]