Occupation Births, Marriages, and Deaths indexed
11th April 2019
Local researchers make a great contribution to the Priaulx Library’s holdings and to local studies.
Donations 2018
10th April 2019
Mrs Geraldine Alford of Guernsey: The World of de la Rue 150th year anniversary presentation. Jill Barnicoat of Guernsey gave us an Exhibition Catalogue of local artist Eric Snell, another Eric Snell Catalogue, and local books Guernsey's Forgotten Past , our own publication Guernsey on the Map , St Martin's (A Parish History) , A Document School Report for Kilimani School,…
Priaulx Library - Caretaker required - 15 hours per week
19th February 2019
The Priaulx Library has a vacancy for a caretaker (15 hours per week). Please contact the Chief Librarian, Sue Laker for an application form and further details.
The Digital Priaulx
1st November 2018
The Priaulx Library is beginning an extensive programme of digitisation in order to preserve the precious documents and images it has in its collections. In so doing the Library is also making its wealth of material more easily accessible to visitors and researchers. Digitised newspapers and documents, as well as the Guernsey Photographic Archive and the map collection, will be available to…
Printed Transactions for sale
6th August 2018
A number of copies of The Report and Transactions of the Société Guernesiaise are being sold at the Priaulx Library in aid of funds. They are modern (dating from the 1980s onwards) and are priced at £1 each. Please contact the Priaulx Library for further details. (Visitors to the Library only, apologies to our off-island friends!) Transactions of La Sociétè Guernesiaise For Sale at £1 each…
Window film renewed
6th July 2018
Any book collector will know and dread the fearful power of the sun. Spines drained of colour, pages yellowed, leather cracked. Making sure this doesn 't happen to our precious books is one of the responsibilities of the staff at the Priaulx Library, and we have recently renewed the film on our large Georgian windows to ensure that the UVF protection for our collection is the best it can be.…
New services at the Digital Priaulx
3rd July 2018
Find My Past and The British Newspaper Archive, invaluable tools for the genealogist, normally only available by subscription, are free to use to all visitors to the Priaulx Library as part of the Digital Priaulx project. Ask at reception!
Osmond gets a facelift
10th April 2018
Art restorer Sally Ede-Golightly has been patiently working on the benign but slghtly shabby features of our benefactor, Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx. The work has been sponsored by Martel Maides Auctions , to whom the Library is very grateful. Osmond is pretty pleased too; he is now bright and positively beaming! To get in touch with Sally contact Ede Conservation.
The Michael Paint Collection of Channel Islands Silver
19th October 2017
A departure for the Library; our display cases were used to show off this magnificent collection of silver objects to great effect.
The cartographic history of the Channel Islands
22nd September 2017
A new book from Extraordinary Editions, The cartographic history of the Channel Islands , will be available to buy next year. Any one who is interested in seeing the book can view it at the Priaulx Library, along with an extensive selection of maps from the book, as well as original maps from the Library's collection, dating from the 16th century onwards, that are featured in the book. Also on…