Fellow Listers Prompted by Peter's recent plug for the Library, a review of the facilities there. The Library is lodged with the University College London Library's Special Collections at their premises at 140 Hampstead Road, London, ten minute walk north from Euston Square Station. The Library is currently open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 10am to 4pm and you need to make an appointment to use it. The Librarian is Donald Pohl, who can be reached at [email protected], tel. 020 7679 5199, answer phone outside of opening times. Non members can use it but have to pay, I think £7.50 for whole or part of the day. Members (Fellows) of course use it free. The greater majority of the printed books are on the UCL main catalogue which can be accessed through www.ucl.ac.uk, via Library. If you have a shelf mark do a general search using Huguenot library ??????. If not, change the field for the general search to title or author and search through that field. However, not all the printed books are catalogued as there is a substantial backlog of non-catalogued material and there are some printed books which are in the process of being reclassified or being given new shelf numbers. The periodicals collection is not wholly catalogued, neither is the pamphlet collection. I'm currently helping Donald reorganise the pamphlets and I'm getting to look through some really neat stuff. Peter, you'd be in your element, 16 and 17th century pamphlets, Calvin et al, came across a copy of Calvin's letter to Knox on Wednesday, dated 157 something, wonderful (but difficult) to read. There are some thoughts around at the moment of having a slightly different structure in the Library and even going to 5 day opening but that is just my suggestion (with some support) to the Council. Saturday opening is not an option because the whole of the Special Collections is closed on Saturday. And the future of the Library at UCL is under consideration as it has to move again fairly soon when the new UCL facility is built. There are no personal facilities at the Library, no eating or drinking facilities, no dispensing machines, the toilets are poor bordering on disgusting (why can't UCL get the bird droppings cleaned off the walls of the gents?). In fact the only thing you can get done there is photocopying and still at a reasonable rate. Hope this helps, any queries, through HWE please, hibernation is NOT allowed. Regards Tony Fuller