Hot on the heels of yesterday's post about the Quiet study Area closure on 8 March, there's a quite a few other events to tell you about. Please note that these events are all taking place in the Quiet Study Area of the Library so it will be closed to Readers during these times. The Group Study Space will be open to readers as normal:
Ok, have you got the diary handy?
Monday 24 March:
Introduction to the Caird Library, 10am-12.15pm. See:
http://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/events/calendar/caird-library-march14
Thursday 3 April: Ideas in Movement: the Role of Conflict and Commerce in the History of Navigation, 10am-2pm. Chart viewing session in the Library as part of this 2 day conference: See:
http://www.rmg.co.uk/researchers/conferences-and-seminars/ideas-in-movement
And then a new series- Something we've not tried before....
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'Library Lates' programme is a series of curator led talks held in the Caird Library. The talks are illustrated with rare and unique items from the Library and archive collections and will offer a fascinating and in depth look at maritime art and history.
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'Library lates' are run on Thursday evenings, between 6.15 and 7.15pm, taking advantage of the Library's Thursday late opening. The cost is just £5 (or £4 if you're already a Member) per session. Tickets are limited and must be booked in advance. Details of the first event are at:
http://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/events/wwii-prints-drawings
The Quiet Study Area will be closed for these Thursdays, 6.15-7.15pm for the Library Lates:
27 March: Second Worlds War Prints and Drawings
10 April: Clarkson Stanfield, (1793-1867): first 'Greenwich' curator
24 April: The Arctic searches for John Franklin's
Erebus and
Terror expedition
8 May: The Eddystone Lighthouses
22 May: 'From Portsmouth dockyard to the coast of Africa': The naval watercolours of Gabriel Bray, 1774-75
12 June: 'Clothes Make the Man': naval uniforms from the National Maritime Museum collection
27 June: Views of the Thames and Greenwich
Plenty for the diary...