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Three mistakes we’re still making about Smart Cities
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Three mistakes we’re still making about Smart Cities
Congratulations…
Well done to Lightwoods Park project co-ordinator Cherie O'Sullivan on her award of Sandwell's Emloyee of the month. Congratulations on behalf of the whole of the Friends Group.
Cherie picking up her award from the Mayor of Sandwell, Cllr Linda Horton, and the Chief Executive Jan Britton, who looks almost as pleased about it as Cherie herself!
Four Decades, Three Libraries: A celebrated career in maps
Birmingham’s ‘BIG PEN’!!!!
The new Library of Birmingham is now open and map resources are progressively in place and available. However, one of our ‘institutions’ will not be there with us. For Richard Abbott, our long-serving map librarian, retired in September 2013 and his extensive knowledge and experience will be sorely missed by customers and staff alike. Richard joined the reference library from the geography department of the University of Birmingham in the mists of time (1971 is mooted) and his knowledge of maps and mapping has shone through ever since. Our guess is that retirement will not dim this enthusiasm!
In advance of the move to the Library of Birmingham, Richard has been working steadfastly to improve online access to map-based material by updating entries on our archival cataloguing system (see http://calmview.birmingham.gov.uk/CalmView/). In addition he has supervised the physical re-location of maps, atlases etc to our new home on floor…
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Keith Bracey the Brummie Bard Birmingham & Black Country poet & writer 