Hosted by the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.

Music by Michele Tasin.

An interview with Dr Matthew Shaw– The Queen's College Library, Oxford

Recorded on 12.02.2021.

Contents:

0.13: introduction

SECTION 1 (general)

1.09: academia vs librarianship
2.48: academic ties
4.32: a librarian's research
4.51: different libraries (BL, IHR, QCL)
6.09: librarianship over the centuries
7.59: reopening with COVID-19
10.13: services for locked-down scholars
11.35: stereotypical librarians

SECTION 2 (London)

15.38: the Americas collection
18.33: Benjamin Franklin at the BL (2006)
19.23: choosing items
22.21: a spectacular item (Cicero's Cato)
23.51: feedback (and Franklin's glass harmonica)
24.47: Jack Kerouac at the BL (2012)
27.28: a single-item exhibition
29.48: exhibitions and lockdown
32.10: a librarian in London

SECTION 3 (the QCL)

34.14: a short history of the collection
38.15: a unique library
39.11: architecture
41.13: mysterious provenance (Miles Coverdale's Ghostly Psalms)
44.14: curious books (the devil's language)
45.44: the future of librarianship
48.33: the invention of newspaper

50.16: goodbyes
51.27: acknowledgements

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Thank you!

Gabriele Rota