Blog

1. 

   Book Clean

   As heritage organisations are opening their doors once again, we are preparing ourselves to welcome back visitors and readers. It will not come as a surprise that our staff have...

   13th May 2021 • Read more

2. 

   Environmental Control

   Environmental conditions play an important role in the life span of collections, if ignored the problems they cause can build up over time and cause a lot of damage to...

   15th April 2021 • Read more

3. 

   A Bread and Cheese Bookseller

   A new work by our late Librarian, Michael Powell and his friend and colleague Terry Wyke While we as Library staff are always pleased to welcome a new volume from...

   8th April 2021 • Read more

4. 

   Pesky Pests

   Today’s blog continues our conservation series, this time focusing on the damage to collections by pests. The majority of library and paper-based collections will have objects affected by insects and...

   16th March 2021 • Read more

5. 

   A Restoration Ash Wednesday

   Most of us probably harbour an impression that with the accession of Charles II the age of the Puritan was over for good or ill. Theatres re-opened, Christmas was brought...

   17th February 2021 • Read more

6. 

   Another One Bites The Dust

   Next in our Conservation series, we will be exploring the damage caused to books and collections by dust. Dust may be something you would expect to find in old libraries,...

   8th February 2021 • Read more

7. 

   Speedway Superstars

   The last year has seen us rely on digitised resources more than ever before, and we continue to work on increasing the content of our online catalogue to meet the...

   26th January 2021 • Read more

8. 

   Good As Mould !

   Following on from previous blog posts, we have decided to introduce a more detailed series on the conservation work carried out in historic libraries. This series will focus on the...

   21st January 2021 • Read more

9. 

   A Tale of Two Statues

   In our Library newsletters recently we’ve been taking a look at items from the series of 101 Treasures in our collections, and today’s blog post, taking the minute book of...

   7th December 2020 • Read more

10. 

    Chetham’s Library receives lifeline Culture Recovery Fund grant

    Chetham’s Library has been awarded £66,400, as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and to ensure they have...

    12th October 2020 • Read more