In our ‘Professionals in Focus’ series, we speak to our Councillors about their roles, working lives and plans for their time on the Members Council. This month Dafydd Tudur, Head of Access and Public Programmes at The National Library of Wales, discusses the importance of understanding users, change at the Library and getting involved in Europeana initiatives.
Libraries have been cultural hubs for centuries, but with the shift toward digital publishing, the conversation has shifted to their relevance, or assertions of their waning relevance, in a digital age. However, according to Elen Haf Jones from the National Library of Wales, while the library has evolved, it holds its place as a ‘valued cultural institution that serves as the memory of a nation’.
Welsh Newspapers Online is a free online resource from the National Library of Wales where you can discover millions of articles from the Library’s rich collection of historical newspapers.
Percy Benzie Abery's digitised photographic collection includes The Builth Wells Historical Pageant photograph album of approximately 160 photographs, newspaper cuttings and other ephemera of the majestic pageant which was performed at the grounds of Llanelwedd Hall on 11 August 1909.
A website presenting photographs of Wales and the English border during the Second World War, 1939-1945, taken from the Geoff Charles collection, including: 6000 photographs searchable by names, places and subjects.
The Welsh Landscape Collection shows a wide variety of prints: urban and rural areas, mountains and coastline, from north, south, east, west and mid Wales.