All The next meeting of the Oxfordshire Family History Society will take place on Monday 23 November 2009 at the usual venue at Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1AB. Doors open at 7.15pm for coffee, help with both genealogy and computers, and the bookstall, exchange journals and the library. The subject of the talk is "The resources of the British Library Newspaper Library" which will be presented by Stewart Gillies. Our speaker tells me that his talk will be on the British Library Newspapers Collection and will provide a brief overview of the history and development of the British newspaper, a description of the newspaper collection and newspaper reading room services and some information on the future of the newspaper collection. As newspapers are a fantastic resource for family history, this should be a presentation not to be missed. Our speaker Stewart Gillies is currently employed as "Information Services Manager", British Library Newspapers. He has been in the post since 2002. Stewart has worked with the British Library since 1993 including periods in the Humanities and Rare Books Reading rooms at the main British Library site at St Pancras. Prior to working for the BL, he worked in Local Studies and Archives departments of local authorities in both Scotland and London and began his professional library career as a Local History Librarian. Stewart is Scottish and was born and raised in Glasgow, but has lived in London for over twenty years. All members, potential members and their guests are welcome. For directions as to how to get to the Exeter Hall, please see :- _http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ExeterHall.html_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ExeterHall.html) For a list of future OFHS meetings, please see :- _http://www.ofhs.org.uk/meetings.html_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/meetings.html) Any queries, please contact me off-list. Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/)