An update on the Special Collections staff changes we shared with you back in October.
We are delighted to welcome our new archivist to the University! Julie Parry will start work in January. She is highly experienced and has worked with lots of modern, radical archives at the People’s History Museum, where she is senior archivist.
Alison (who writes this) leaves the University at Christmas to take up wonderful role at Durham Cathedral. Martin is now settled into his new subject librarian role though still continues to be involved with Special Collections and will help Julie to settle in. Our Project Archivist, James Neill, finishes on the 30th November. He has done a fantastic job in cataloguing and promoting the complex Calvin Wells Archive and we are very grateful to him for all his efforts.
We are hopeful that we can offer a fairly seamless transition to new opening hours and arrangements in 2019 once Julie has started. However we are not yet able to confirm exactly how our new service will operate. Please therefore continue to inform us by email special-collections@bradford.ac.uk if you are interested in making a booking for 2019. As soon as new hours are agreed, we will be contacting interested parties to offer appointments. Apologies for any inconvenience. We believe it is better not to take firm bookings than to risk disappointing people whose bookings we cannot honour.
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