On Wednesday morning the Library received a
visit from Archbishop Philip Freier, who is downsizing his own library and
offered to donate his books to us. Here he is unloading some boxes of books
from what he calls the truck. Note spatial distance from the photographer and
practical gloves for shifting in this environment. Doubtless there will be some
titles that we must add to the collection, while others we will have or don’t
need, which will go to other libraries, and to second hand sale in the Library. I hasten to add, by the way, that all
books arriving or re-arriving through the doors of the Library go directly into
72-hour quarantine. This includes book returns, which are handled with
sanitised gloves and kept in quarantine until the following week. This is
becoming standard practice in all libraries at present. The Archbishop’s books
will be unpacked and inspected sometime in May.
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