National Art Library @ V & A Museum Our first call venture on a bus led us to the Victoria and Albert Museum. More specifically though, to the V&A National Art Library. First on the agenda was a tour by the Assistant Librarian, Cassandra, who showed us around the library space including the staff only back rooms where their periodicals were kept. The NAL's serves as a public library, as well as a library for Museum staff. This library, however, is a closed access library which just means that users must request items from the catalog which are then pulled by staff and delivered to either behind the circulation desk or the special collections desk (this process could take up to 90 minutes).
The second part of our tour brought us to the seminar room where Frances, another member of the library team, let us get some hands on with a few of the rare goodies in their collection.
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