Note: this has been sitting in my drafts for over a month...
It has been all quiet on the library front in the last week and a half. For this, I can only offer my heartfelt apologies (to my one reader - hi Mum!). But with a final spurt of energy that will take me to my last non-revision supervision essay EVER, I think I may have finally completed my rounds of the Sidgwick site.
The Pendlebury Library of Music is housed in the West Road Concert Hall, a large an intimidating building that's slightly outside the rest of the Sidgwick Site.
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| It looks bigger in real life |
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| What on earth is ethnomusicology? |
The library is only open from 9:30 to 5:30, shorter hours than most department and faculty libraries.
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| Unassuming entrance |
By now, I have got used to the whole 'leave your bags and coats outside', but requiring a £1 coin for the use of a locker was certainly new.
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| As if £9000 of tuition fees weren't enough. |
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| Reminds you of school. |
The shelves seem to be arranged in an L-shape around a separate reading room through another door. Consequently, those in the reading room can avoid disturbances from the main part of the library - a fantastically sensible idea, but a little bit odd.
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| The only one in here... |
The reading room was very quiet with soft, warm lighting. A desk lamp certainly wouldn't have gone amiss.
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| One of the many pot plants |
The variety and number of pot plants was one of the greatest that I have yet encountered on my library adventures.
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| Average shelves and some slightly random chairs |
All in all, a small, cosy library with an unusual layout and a startling number of fake plants in vases.
