To a party at the weekend thrown by the map librarian who has turned 50. He'd invited quite a large number of people from several of his different 'lives'. So there was a good gang from the library there.

Fun evening. But as some of us were the last to leave a little after midnight, and I had a couple of boxes of books to drop off, and I was doing the driving for three others, we took a turn around the Library at 12.30 to see how 24/7 opening was going.

We were all somewhat taken aback by just how full the place was on a Saturday night and how much actual study seemed to be happening rather than just chaos and rambunctiousness which we were expecting.

Bit of shame the the library system had fallen over. It happens very rarely but did mean self-issue was a non-starter for those who wanted it. But it's good to see that with exam period on us, the extra opening certainly seems to be being used.



[1] Well, old Science Fiction magazines from the 50s that I accumulated somewhere along the line) to give to the SF society.