The Digital Priaulx

1st November 2018
Volunteers Barry Gibson and Alan Solway using the large Metis scanner to digitise the newspaper collection
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
Priaulx Library 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
Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx says BNA and FMP available free of charge Guernsey 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
Sally Ede-Golightly of Ede Conservation working on Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx's portrait
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 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…

Asbestos removal

3rd June 2017
Certain of the Library resources usually available on the ground floor will be unobtainable from 5-8 June. If you require any if the green subject files during this period, please ring the Library before 5 pm on 3 June, so that staff may locate them in advance. Family files will be available as normal.

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