Digitised Documents

Simple inkwells used at the main counter with pens and spare nibs.

A set of scales and weights used for weighing items to be sent to postal members.

Tickets were given as receipts to library members who paid to reserve books or pay fines.

A decorative bookweight placed in the centre of an open book to hold the pages during the cataloguing process.

A stamp with the name of the institution, these days we have returned to using the Æ symbol on our stamps.

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