tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330624578584433357.post1898960993561231344..comments2023-11-03T13:12:02.025+01:00Comments on Wales - Culture and Life: My old jobNettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17073062032402632360noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330624578584433357.post-76732399342046193422007-09-06T13:19:00.000+02:002007-09-06T13:19:00.000+02:00Hi Netty, you might be interested in reading this:...Hi Netty, you might be interested in reading this:<BR/>The National Library of Wales Appreciation Society<BR/>Just for Fun - Totally Pointless<BR/>Description:<BR/>For all of those who like to spend long days in this glorious place.....eating expensive food in the Pendinas Restaurant, ordering pointless books you have no intention of reading for a laugh, hiding your mobile from the security guards, looking out the windows and up at the ceiling, sleeping off a hangover on the tables, staring at people who order huge books that are delivered to them on trolleys and wondering what the hell they are actually doing?, going out of the reading room to check emails every 5 minutes, re-joining the library at the start of each year just so you can get some more free passport photos, getting in there at 4.30 (after having just woken up) and leaving at 5 feeling happy you've had a constructive days work...and many more!!!<BR/><BR/>"It's a magical place we're on our way there, it's called.....the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330624578584433357.post-7706130179138635102007-07-21T17:55:00.000+02:002007-07-21T17:55:00.000+02:00Hi Netty! I do not like that librarian either - An...Hi Netty! I do not like that librarian either - Andrew Green....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330624578584433357.post-82042279164753444242007-07-11T14:55:00.000+02:002007-07-11T14:55:00.000+02:00The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth is 10...The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth is 100 years old; but it’s a constant source of irritation that the Library is in so remote a position. OK, I know that the placing of a major academic institution as a major adjunct to a fairly remote university gives the whole area a cachet which can only encourage future development, not only of the institution but also of the area in which it is sited.<BR/><BR/>I also know that the unique holdings of the National Library will make it an essential port of call for some academics wherever it is. But the ‘casual’ non-specific academics of Swansea, Newport and Cardiff are never going to traipse up to Aber rather going to the British Library – the vast majority of the people of Wales are denied the use of their own library because of a political decision of social engineering.<BR/><BR/>From: A fairly recently retired Head of English in a Cardiff Secondary School, having just made the journey from Wales to Catalonia and now looking forward to establishing himself in his new country (and finding a home for his many books!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330624578584433357.post-65995164340300015382007-06-21T17:32:00.000+02:002007-06-21T17:32:00.000+02:00Opening of a photographic exhibition about Wales i...Opening of a photographic exhibition about Wales in Tallinn. All the best to Mark Robert Davey!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com