Having found that the Morning Star is not averse to a litte alliterative tabloid style headling I’ve taken a leaf out of their book for the title of this post.
Actually its not quite as exciting as it sounds. I’ve been de-duplicating our holdings of Marx and Engels in the light of the fact that we have a near complete set of the collected works (We’re only missing vols 30, 48, 49 and 50). I’ve therefore removed most of the duplicated material from the library stock. But being a librarian with hoarder tendencies, I couldn’t remove of everything – so we have kept a variety of different editions of Karl Marx’s Capital, along with copies of Engels’ Condition of the Working Class in Britain and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.
We have also added content listings for the various collected works volumes to the library catalogue – which does make some of the entries a bit unwieldy, but does mean that readers can find what they are looking for.
In all we have made room for another 4 or 5 shelves of books, which is lucky because we have just had a large-ish donation of books which will need space somewhere in the library.
Boring, but true – As a lowly library assistant at the University of Bath I and my colleagues all dressed up as books from the collection and I chose to pay homage to Engels’ Condition of the Working Class in Britain. Photos do exist, but are seldom seen.
Jane
Librarian
Working Class Movement Library 