The Portico Library & Gallery

Noticeboard

The Notice Board is intended to provide news and links to the Library's activities and affiliations. It may also serve as a forum for news and views and we would welcome input from the Members (in the Members' Protected area) and the Public.

The Quarterly can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat. Click on the link for the latest copy.

A list of our monographs and our current booklists (listed by subject and by author) are now available to download.

Useful links:

http://www.manchestersocieties.com
An umbrella organisation promoting the well-being of all the Societies associated with Greater Manchester - representing their views and their aspirations at City, Region and National levels. The Members of Manchester Societies are the Societies themselves - not their members. The range of interests of these Societies reflects the breadth of intellectual life in Greater Manchester - some are relatively newly established, some are over two hundred years old. All are thriving!

www.irenewiltshire.com
Dr Irene Wiltshire has been a member of the Portico Library for a good many years and is a scholar of 19th century literature in particular.

www.nwpassages.org.uk
North West Passages is based on a project which maps existing text, both published and unpublished, famous and obscure, onto a map grid of the North West of England and made available through a variety of media in order to ensure good accessibility.

Institutional links:

www.manchester.ac.uk/coursespublic
Welcome to Courses for the Public from the University of Manchester. Our courses are designed to give you an opportunity to share in the research and scholarship of the University of Manchester. We offer a varied and changing programme with an emphasis on learning for pleasure. Our programme is aimed at adults and is delivered by tutors experienced in working with adult students. Expect a stimulating atmosphere, generating ideas and discussion. To accommodate people with a range of lifestyles our courses are of varied length. We offer day-schools and short study visits as well as daytime and evening courses of between 6 and 12 weekly sessions.

www.independentlibraries.co.uk
The Association of Independent Libraries was formed in 1988 to bring together those libraries in the United Kingdom who depend mainly on charitable donations or membership fees. Their diverse collections make up a historic archive of the reading and collecting habits of the people who built them, ranging from Chetham's Library and The London Library to The Newcastle Literary & Philosophical Society and Westerkirk Parish Library.

www.artisanbooks.co.uk
Artisanbooks is the website of Cyril Formby Ltd, book conservator and restorer. This well established, family-run firm will sympathetically restore and rebind books, maps, prints etc. for Libraries and Museums as well as offering custom restoration and/or boxing for individual commissions.

www.landcas.org.uk
The Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, founded in 1883, actively promotes the study of the history of Lancashire and Cheshire. Its sphere includes archaeology (both traditional and industrial), social history, trade and trades, architecture and the arts and much more!

www.manlitphil.co.uk
The Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society has been in existence since 1781 and is one of the oldest learned societies in the country. Past members have included John Dalton, Peter Mark Roget, Ernest Rutherford and Joseph Whitworth amongst many other internationally prominent names.

www.goethe.de/manchester
Learn German and experience Germany's culture with the official German cultural centre.

www.manchestercivic.org.uk
Manchester Civic Society is a registered charity that, for 10 years now, since its formal launch on Tuesday 14th November 1995, has been 'keeping a watch over the city' and 'fostering a sense of pride in Manchester'.

For further details please contact the Librarian or telephone 0161 236 6785.