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Now the library is the social rendezvous
From the Changing Face of Ormskirk series: By Clifford Rimmer, Librarian When the Lancashire County Library opened its first library centre in Ormskirk in 1926, it was housed in a room adjoining the old Fire Station in Derby Street, and opened for four hours a week. Borrowers visiting the library would see on the opposite…
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Memories: Mandy Phillips
Yesterday I was at Liver and Mash, the Liverpool Mashed Libraries event and took the opportunity to speak to Mandy Phillips, former Edge Hill student and employee about her time here. If you’d like to share your memories of your time at Edge Hill, leave a comment and I’ll get in touch with you!
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Even more Library photos!
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The Night Before Christmas
We already know that the University Library (or LRC) opened on 31st January 1994 but I’ve now got hold of some photos of the final stages of kitting it out including some faces you might recognise:
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The Old New Library
One of the very early posts in this series showed an artist’s impression of the Student Information Centre – originally built as a library. Colleagues in Learning Services unearthed these photos of the build.
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The Old Library
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Student Information Centre
As Margi Rawlinson points out in the comments of Sunday’s post, the Library used to be located in the building I’m currently sat. It’s now the Student Information Centre housing Student Services, Academic Registry, bits of IT Services and probably a few others I’ve forgotten about – sorry! The above artist’s impression was taken from…
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31st January 1994: Learning Resource Centre Opens
This day 16 years ago the LRC – now known as the University Library – opened. The Library has moved around quite a bit over the years and I’ve found some photos showing different locations that I’ll try to feature in the future.
