the Bodleian, dulcimers, and Conchords…all in one day

Yesterday was terrific and I’m still weary and recovering. First, there was Alumni Day at GSLIS, a whole day of programming geared toward grads of the program. In the morning, the speaker was Sarah Thomas, a GSLIS graduate who is the librarian at the Bodley Library at the University of Oxford. She told us this story about a set of books gifted to the library by King Henry V (yes, a long time ago) and in the religious upheaval during the time of King Edward VI the library was destroyed (purged of