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July Workday

commonwealcollection — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:16:59 +0000

Workday this wednesday to get the annexe open to allow access to our journals…

2-8pm in Commonweal – come along for as much or as little as you can…

Tea and biscuits provided!

February 2010 Workday

commonwealcollection — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:37:55 +0000

We are having a Commonweal Workday on Tuesday 23rd February 2pm – 8pm

Please come and join us – all volunteers very welcome.

Our quarterly workdays enable us to process new and donated books and do other essential tasks towards keeping the library alive and developing. Also a chance to meet Commonweal trustees. This workday will focus on assessing and clearing surplus materials remaining in the Commonweal Journals Room, prior to its being opened to the public in the summer. We envisage this process taking more than one workday to complete!

Further Workdays will be held on:

Wednesday 7th April, 1 – 8pm
Wednesday 5th May 2-5pm
Wednesday 21st July, 2-8pm

Meet in the Commonweal Collection. Come for as long or short a time as you wish. Tea and biccies will be provided but you’re welcome to bring more to share! Look forward to seeing you there.

WORKDAY – 1st July

commonwealcollection — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:13:30 +0000

Wednesday 1st July

2pm – 8pm

All volunteers welcome. Meet in the Commonweal Collection. Come for as long or short a time as you wish.

Tea and biccies will be provided but you’re welcome to bring more to share!

Look forward to seeing you there.

Paxcat News

specialcollectionsbradford — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:31:51 +0000

The PaxCat Project to make the Commonweal Peace Archives more widely available is now well under way. The first Project e-newsletter is now online, and includes introduction to the Project Archivist, Helen Roberts, and detail about the work of the Project.

http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/special/paxcatnews.php

Keep in touch with the Project via its own Blog:

http://commonwealarchives.wordpress.com

It’s no joke – April 1st Workday

commonwealcollection — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:55:19 +0000

The next commonweal workday will be on April 1st 2-8pm.

All volunteers welcome. Meet in the Commonweal Collection.

Jobs we’ll tackle this time will include sorting out the pamphlet collection. This is really valuable as many of these items are unique to commonweal and not available in many other libraries.

Tea and biccies will be provided but you’re welcome to bring more to share!

New exhibition: Drawing for Peace

commonwealcollection — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:08:40 +0000

A unique and fascinating glimpse at the personalities involved in 1930s politics, pacifism and the arts will be on show at Gallery II at the University of Bradford from 6 March – 3 April 2009. The exhibition shows pencil drawings made by Peggy Smith while she was working freelance for newspapers in the 1930s. Peggy Smith was a dedicated peace campaigner, who worked for the League of Nations Union in the 1920s, was one of the first women to sign the Peace Pledge in 1936, and sold Peace News on the steps of St. Martin-in-the-Fields for many years. The exhibition will be the first time most of these original sketches have been shown in public. It is curated by Alison Cullingford of Special Collections at the University. The sketches are held by the Commonweal Library and are cared for by Special Collections.

February Workday

commonwealcollection — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:04:29 +0000

We are holding the second of our regular Workdays on Friday February 6th from 2.00 – 8.00 pm. We will be working in Room 2.7b on Floor 2.

Please come and help us process donations and carry out various other practical library maintenance jobs. Come for as long or as short a time as you like. Any hours that you can spend with us will be much appreciated. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be on hand.

An opportunity also to meet Commonweal trustees, other Commonweal enthusiasts and learn more about the library.

A further Workday will be held on Wednesday !st April , 2 – 8pm.

Funding news!

commonwealcollection — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:51:00 +0000

A wide range of peace activists and organisations have donated archives to Commonweal Collection. These are now part of Special Collections at Bradford University, though their separate distinctive peace story is still very much acknowledged. We have great news: the PaxCat Project, established to catalogue these wonderful peace history resources and thereby make them available, is to receive £35k from the National Cataloguing Grants Scheme.

Commonweal Workday – Volunteers Needed!

commonwealcollection — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:54:09 +0000

Commonweal is holding a Workday on Monday 3rd November 10.30am-4.30pm

An opportunity also to meet Commonweal trustees, other Commonweal enthusiasts and learn more about the library.

Further Workdays will be held on Friday 6th February 2-8pm and Wednesday 1st April 2-8pm.

Welcome to the Commonweal Collection Blog

commonwealcollection — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:17:19 +0000

This is the new Commonweal Collection blog – designed to keep you up to date with developments and Commonweal news.

Information about Commonweal Collection can be found on our static website at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/services/commonweal/index.php