Sylvia Milne, Retired librarian

 

 

Sylvia Milne's Web Page


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I am a retired librarian and live in the village of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, England. It is close to historic Chester and handy for very pleasant walks. We often walk in Delamere Forest a historic forest managed by the Forestry Commission , and the Sandstone Trail runs quite close to the village.

Like many librarians of my age, I began my career in the age of the card catalogue and ended it in the digital age.

I have been browsing the World Wide Web for several years now and have discovered  many useful sites. When I worked at the University of Chester, I set up and edited CHESweb as a way of drawing the attention of staff and students to relevant Internet resources.

One of my favourite resources as a librarian was Stumpers: a mailing list for queries that had stumped librarians. The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University decided to cease hosting the list, but it was resurrected by a former moderator and a board of subscribers as Project Wombat.

Since my retirement in 1999 I have published my favourites as Plucked from the web: a retired librarian's gleanings

One of my pages,  Silver Links contains links to websites of special interest to those of us who will not see 50 again.

I hope that other seniors will find them useful

Some photographs of our visits to England, Scotland and Italy

 

Checking for broken links is like painting the Forth Bridge.   If you find any,  please report them to S. Milne