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Corder retired in the 1940s, donating his volumes of research to Sunderland’s Central Library.He left Sunderland some years later, moving to Over Stowey in Somerset.He died in Over Stowey in a nursing home in 1953, at the age of 85.
The library moved in 1995 to the new City Library and Arts Centre on Fawcett Street (occupying part of the former Binns Department Store). [11] The relocation left more space for museum exhibitions. The new City Library Arts Centre also houses the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art , renowned as one of the leading forums for emerging artists ...
A library catalog (or library catalogue in British English) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A catalog for a group of libraries is also called a union catalog .
By 1840 the town had 76 shipyards and between 1820 and 1850 the number of ships being built on the Wear increased fivefold. From 1846 to 1854 almost a third of the UK's ships were built in Sunderland, and in 1850 the Sunderland Herald proclaimed the town to be the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. [70]
Copac (originally an acronym of Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues) was a union catalogue which provided free access to the merged online catalogues of many major research libraries and specialist libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland, plus the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales. [1]
Sybil Tawse was born on 26 September, 1886, the fifth child of George Tawse and Elizabeth Ann [Harrison] Tawse. The family lived in Bishopwearmouth (now part of Sunderland) in County Durham (now Tyne and Wear).
Large search space: A search can search the data from different data sources (the discovery system has a comprehensive central subject index). For example, you can search a journal article or a textbook directly in the discovery system and you do not have to change from a subject database to the library catalog.
Source: British Library Integrated Catalogue: Risings, Petersfield: Enitharmon, 1988 ISBN 1-870612-00-0); The Red-Funnelled Boat, London: Picador, 1998 ISBN 0-330-36914-8)