Librarians' Christian Fellowship
Christians in Library, Information
and Archive Work
Visits
From time to time visits, to places of interest to members are arranged. These may be to libraries, research centres or Christian organisations, normally with an information or research connection of some kind. Recent visits include Lambeth Palace, Christian Research, the Evangelical Alliance, the British Museum and Tearfund.
2011
Walking tour of Oxford
Date: Friday 2nd September
Time: 2:30 pm
Led by Peter Berry, official tour guide for Blackwell's Bookshop, the tour will follow in the footsteps of the Oxford translators who worked on the text of the King James Bible and earlier translators with Oxford connections including John Wycliffe and William Tyndale.
For those able to arrive earlier, we are planning to visit to the Bodleian Library's summer exhibition Manifold Greatness: Oxford and the Making of the KJV and to have lunch together in a local restaurant.
To book places on the afternoon walking tour and to indicate your interest in the Bodlleian visit and/or lunch, please contact our Secretary, Graham Hedges.
Previous visits
On 24th May 201 LCF members visited the Museum of the Book to view the unique collection of rare copies and editions of the Bible in over 20 languages, including the Gutenberg Bible of 1455, first edition Bibles of the Reformation such as Erasmus' Greek New Testament, Luther's Bible, Coverdale's Bible, the Geneva Bible and, of course, the King James Bible of 1611 as well as copies of the Bible once owned by luminaries such as John Bunyan, Elizabeth Fry, Florence Nightingale, Charles Spurgeon, William Wilberforce, Reginald Kray, and Elvis Presley.
The
Evangelical Library
OnTuesday 21st September 2010, a group of LCF members and friends
visited the Library which moved to Bounds Green in 2009.
Wesley's
Chapel
On Tuesday 18th May 2010, LCF members visited Wesley's chapel opposite
the
famous
Bunhill
Row
burial
ground
where
John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, William Blake, Isaac Watts and others are buried.The
visit
included
a tour of Wesley's house and the Museum of Methodism next door.
St.
Paul's Cathedral Library
On Tuesday 22nd September 2009 a group of LCF members
and friends visited the library of St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
Bible
World Experience
On Saturday 1st August 2009, our Scottish members visited
the Scottish Bible Society's Bible World Experience in Edinburgh.
Westminster
Central Hall
On Tuesday 19th May 2009
a group of LCF members visited WCH where Richard Ratcliffe, guest speaker at
our 2008 annual gave them a tour of the building and an introduction
to the Methodist archives.
Visit report....
The
Bible Society
On Tuesday 16th September 2008 members of LCF visited the Bible Society
in Swindon
Church
of England Record Centre
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 a dozen LCF members visited
the Church of England Record Centre in Bermondsey, south London.
This was a great opportunity to see behind the scenes and learn more about the work of the Centre which maintains archives for the various national institutions of the Anglican Church.
On Saturday 12th July, 2007 a small party of Scottish LCF members visited the chapel...
Visit report...