Category: Accessions
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16AUG23 / accessions
An impulse acquisition, of which the department was notified by the institution as the latter departed with it to the eastern coast of Skåne for a day and a half of planning meetings. The note passed to the department reads: Heard this was good; on the basis of the first fifty pages, one understands exactly…
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07JUL23 / accessions
The institution has been much occupied with implementing The Magrathea Protocol over the last week, but the accessions department has been beavering away nonetheless. Uncharacteristically, their work has focussed on withdrawals from the catalogue—shelf meterage is a real constraint for a small institution, after all—but there are a few fresh accessions also: The Overstory has…
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21JUL23 / accessions
A couple of laggards that were meant to come in with the previous shipment: Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle proved excellent, so now attention is being turned to earlier works heretofore overlooked. The acquisition of the Prose Edda is at least in part about integrating the institution with the deep history of its socio-cultural environment, but the…
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18JUL23 / accessions
The accessions department is off visiting a monastery today, so the following report has been prepared in advance. Errors and omissions &c &c. Classic goth seems to be having its, ah, moment in the sun right now. The Cathi Unsworth has some good reviews, and promises to be rather better edited than John Robb’s recent…
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22JUN23 / accessions
The accessions department considered any new Ann Leckie a non-negotiable acquisition, given the institution’s response to previous volumes by the same author. Tchaikovsky is actually a newcomer to the institutional collection, which is somewhat surprising given the author’s astonishing productivity and sterling reputation. That this volume collects novellas rather than being part of an extended…