Goodbye TPL

It's been a while now (over ten years) since I left the University - where a fair bit of my time, as student and lecturer, was spent in the Thomas Parry Library on Llanbadarn campus.

So when it was announced this year that the University was consolidating its teaching on Penglais Campus, and relocating all library materials to the Hugh Owen Library - I took up the invitation to go along and say goodbye . . . 



It was a nice evening - saw lots of old, familiar faces, listened to a few speeches, had a wander through the stacks, the photocopying area (spent a lot of time there!), the old teaching rooms, etc.  - brought back a few memories.

End of an era - the old place (est. 1970) nearly made it to 50 years as a library of librarianship, but not quite.

Out With The Old . . .

Long time, no blog. February was a strange month - my last working in academia - and after taking down the hedge, we didn't seem to do a great deal around the garden. Did clear up most of the hedge debris - Martin just needs to dig out the stumps now - I'll leave that to him and the chainsaw!

Anyway with the end of February, I finally finished with the University (well for the most part anyway - will still be marking for them!). On my last day there was the traditional coffee and cakes, and I was presented with a lovely bouquet of flowers, a standard Bay Tree in a pot, and a silver pendant set with quartz. There was a card and speeches, and it was all rather strange - I've been there nearly six years (plus all that time as an undergraduate, Masters and PhD student), and can't quite believe it's over . . .