Farewell from the 2021-22 Trainees

Dear readers – and we know you’re out there, this blog’s statistics have doubled in the past year, thank you very much – it’s that time of year again. We’ve been wrapping up projects and working on handover documents, and with many of us now disappearing to use up annual leave or begin new contracts, it seemed like an appropriate time to make our formal farewell to the traineeship. From setting up an official trainee Twitter to meeting some library-endorsed llamas and alpacas, it’s been a busy and exciting year, and a pleasure to share what we could of it on here. For this final post, we wanted to share some reflections and a brief summary of our future plans, as well as taking the opportunity to wish the incoming trainee cohort all the best for the year ahead – we really hope you have a good one.

Katie Ross, Social Science Library: I have loved my experience as the graduate trainee at the SSL – my highlights have been the people I work with and our regular readers who say hello every morning/afternoon! The building is also nice and cool in a heatwave… I still can’t quite believe I get to be part of the Bodleian team and have thoroughly enjoyed participating in events across the different libraries and colleges, like alpaca cuddling (!) and the Staff Conference. I think some of my most useful experiences have been giving library tours and supervising a work experience student, as these have given me confidence in taking the lead. I have also had the valuable opportunity to try out working with social media. After my traineeship, I am moving over to the Weston to do a Digital Imaging Apprenticeship with the Digital Bodleian.  

Heather Barr, St Edmund Hall: Being part of the trainee cohort has been a real highlight of my traineeship this year – it has been wonderful to share our experiences of learning-the-library-ropes! I have also loved how varied work is in a college library. From spending a week knowing a lot about Medieval Irish saints (after helping a PhD candidate), to introducing secondary school students to our beautiful seventeenth-century atlases, I have found working closely with students especially rewarding. I am delighted to be staying on at St Edmund Hall for another two years while I complete my MA in Library and Information Studies at UCL. 

Emily Main, St Hilda’s College: My first taste of library work in September was at the Bodleian History Faculty Library and I evidently enjoyed it so much that I applied for a permanent position at St Hilda’s College Library! I’ve loved being part of both teams and am extremely grateful that St Hilda’s and the Bodleian team have allowed me to continue and complete the year as a trainee. I’ve really appreciated the opportunity to explore library work with hands-on experience in a faculty and college library and by visiting other libraries, such as the local public library, during our Wednesday sessions. 

Lizzie Dawson, All Souls College: I have enjoyed being part of a college during my year at All Souls, and the lovely trainees I have met. I feel I have had a great range of experiences this year and have enjoyed the variety of the training sessions. I revamped the blog as part of the blog team and co-edited the excellent posts by the trainees. I am grateful to those who wanted to participate in the new @OxLibTrainees Twitter when I pitched the idea. It is rewarding to have the chance to start something that will develop our skills and encourage future applicants to the traineeship. I feel I have gained more from the traineeship by creating something together. I have relished investigating the background of the benefactors of All Souls and using the excellent resources of the library for my research. It has caused reflection on the history of enslavement and its continuing impact.

Juliet Brown, Old Bodleian Library: Working in the Old Bodleian Library this year has been an incredibly rewarding experience. The role has allowed me to complete a variety of core library tasks, interact with a diverse range of readers, as well as taking on significant responsibilities across the wider library system. Being able to share these experiences with other trainees, as well as developing my knowledge of the wider library sector through regular training sessions, has been incredibly valuable. I am thankful for the opportunity to have spent this year training and working within the Bodleian Libraries, developing a myriad of new skills that will benefit me in future roles, and to have worked as a member of such an incredible team. 

Jess Ward, Bodleian Law Library: One of my favourite things this year has been reclassifying the jurisprudence section – who knew hours of listening to plain-text philosophy podcasts would mean that I could occasionally understand some small concept related to jurisprudence? The biggest highlight, however, was putting together a display on the English legal history of queer rights for LGBTQ+ History Month. It was something that really helped to put into perspective how recent many of these rights are, whilst also gaining an appreciation for the extensiveness of the law library’s collections – I could (gently and carefully) grab a 1760s book with a 1553 statute off the open shelf! After my traineeship ends, I’ll be making my way to the other side of the enquiry desk as a DPhil student at New College (and far beyond the enquiry desk, making a full return to coxswaining boats).

Jemima Bennett, New College: A highlight of my year in the library at New College has been working so closely with our special collections. I feel as if I’ve been given the opportunities and space to really learn a lot about manuscripts and early printed books in a way that I think not many other jobs would facilitate. I’m keen to continue working with manuscripts next year as I side-step within libraries to a PhD at the University of Kent with the Bodleian, focusing on manuscript fragments here in Oxford. My favourite elements of the traineeship have been the training sessions spent looking at different types of libraries. I have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the breadth of librarianship, as well as how different libraries cater to their readers. It’s also been wonderful to have in the trainee cohort such a great support network, and just a lovely group of people.

Izzie Salter, Sackler Library: Being the Sackler Library trainee this year has been a brilliant experience. Undoubtedly, my highlight is working with our special collections, alongside the help of our former Art and Architecture Librarian. Most notably, I was able to present The Japanese Box (a facsimile edition of seminal photographic works produced in post-War Japan) to History of Art undergraduates; this was an amazing opportunity to both test my speaking skills and discuss an area of art I had come to love through my time at work. After my traineeship, I will be returning to university to study Legal and Social Research, now with an enriched appreciation for academic libraries and all that they offer. I am incredibly thankful to my colleagues, across the Sackler Library and the trainee cohort, for sharing this year with me, and will miss Oxford hugely.

Josie Fairley Keast, Bodleian Law Library: I’ve had an incredible year with both the BLL and Sainsbury teams – highlights include helping to pull off the first round of in-person undergraduate mooting exams since 2019, reaching the end of the Futures Library relocation spreadsheet, and peering behind the walls of so many of Oxford’s iconic streetfronts. Although the traineeship has confirmed my intention to pursue a career in libraries, I’ll be taking a brief detour for the next year as I make use of a scholarship to study an MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. I hear the Other Place has plenty of libraries – hopefully one will take me on while I’m there! 

Georgie Moore, Weston Library: Recently, I’ve joined the Bodleian’s Public Engagement team and the Old Bod Reader Services weekend team. Taking on two part-time roles is keeping my work-life varied which suits me as I like to have different things going on. Public Engagement involves interacting with various audiences, from school children to academics, but a constant is helping enthuse visitors about library collections. Aside from everything I learnt as a trainee, an unexpected benefit of the programme has been that everywhere I go in the Bodleian libraries I seem to bump into people I’ve met through the training sessions and former colleagues from St John’s, making me feel right at home.

Ben Elliott, Pembroke College: My year at Pembroke has been brilliant. I have loved managing Bishop John Hall’s collection, curating displays of artefacts (the Notebook of Thomas Atkinson, Master of HMS Victory, 1805 is my go-to object to ramble on about), working with conservators and inventorying the college archive where I found letters by John Ruskin, D.G. Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. It was also fun to meet Thomas Atkinson’s relative and show her the HMS Victory notebook; as well as, working with the Bannister family and a film crew who were filming a new documentary involving the college’s Sir Roger Bannister collection. I’m now trekking up to the Yorkshire Dales to start a new chapter as an auction assistant at a fine art auctioneer, where I’ll assist in artwork/collections/artist research, cataloguing, auction sales and curating exhibitions. I’m swapping the spires of Oxford for rolling hills, drystone walls and sheep. Next goal: appear on Antiques Roadshow. 

Sophie Lay, English Faculty Library: Working with the English Faculty Library has been a delight year-round, but the highlight of my traineeship has been getting to flex my creative writing skills with displays, blog posts, and working on the twitter account – especially helping to establish the @OxLibTrainees account, which I hope will form a key part of the traineeship in future! I have learned more than I can summarise this year, from developing my digital and customer service skills to getting to try out an antique printing press! The newest and most useful experience for me (and probably one of my favourite things about working in the EFL) has been getting to work with rare books and special collection items. Thanks to these wonderful experiences, I am delighted that I get to continue working within the Bodleian as a Library Assistant at both the Philosophy and Theology Faculties Library and the English Faculty Library.

We leave you now with a limerick, penned by an anonymous trainee from this year’s cohort.

There once were a group of trainees
Who took to their libraries with ease
But with contracts soon done
And despite all their fun
Onward now to new opportunities!

a llama in front of the Old Bodleian

Farewell from the 2020-21 trainees!

We, the 2020-21 trainees, know what you’ve all been wondering. Where did we go?! We admit, it’s been radio silence on the blog for a while, but it’s been a very strange year. After another winter lockdown which saw some of us working from home, some of us still working in libraries (many of which once again had to close their doors to readers) and only some of us in Oxford, things became a little more normalised in Trinity term. Unfortunately we were unable to hold our Trainee Showcase in person and held it on Teams instead, but it was still great to see what everyone had been up to this year. Below are several summaries, provided by trainees, of their presentations and projects. This is our final (belated!) blog post, and we’d like to take this opportunity to wish the new 2021-22 cohort of trainees the very best of luck – we hope you have a wonderful year!

 

 

Kick Stools, Queries & Other Quirks: A Year at the EFL

Katie Allen, English Faculty Library 

 

The EFL in glorious profile

 

Working as part of a small team at the English Faculty Library has meant that my role as a trainee this year has been varied and busy, despite the fact that the library was closed to readers (except for Click & Collect pickups) during Hilary term. I’ve processed new acquisitionshunted for missing books, been part of group efforts to wrangle Perspex screens into place, made a library tour video for the English Faculty outreach programmeconducted kick stool safety inspections, eaten many a doughnut from the Missing Bean Café… It was hard to focus in on one topic to talk about for my presentationso instead put together a list of the top ten quirkiest things I’d encountered while working at the EFL and used the list as a springboard to talk about my experiences this year.  

 

The EFL’s beloved mascot, Bill Shakespeare

 

 

 

Shakes, Breaks and Retakes: The Making of a Law Library Tour 

Ella Burrows, Law Library

 

The title slide from the PowerPoint presentation

 

Earlier this year, Naomi, the other Law Library trainee, and me were asked to make a video tour of the Law Library so that prospective trainees could get a feel for the space (they were not able to visit in person during their interviews because of the pandemic).

My presentation focused on the process of creating this tour, all the way from our initial planning through to uploading the tour on to YouTube. Along the way, I touched on the difficulties of filming, and having to re-shoot the video when the angles didn’t quite work; how we decided upon OpenShot, the free open-source software I used to edit the video, and the lengthy editing process that followed; and the advantages of YouTube as a platform to share content, particularly in terms of accessibility features such as closed captions and timestamps. To keep the talk interesting, I included some videos of my editing practice and clips from the original recording versus the re-shoot.

 

The title screen of the video tour, with pictures of the Library and the text: ‘Bodleian Law Library: An introductory tour’

 

I finished with a summary of the lessons learned from the project – we could have improved the sound quality, and a test shoot might have made our lives a bit easier. Overall, it was great to learn some new filming and editing skills, and several prospective trainees commented that the video had been very helpful, so it was definitely a worthwhile project – and the presentation went down well too!

 

 

 

Ethical Classification in St John’s College Library & Study Centre

Simone Gaddes, St John’s College Library

 

My project focused on the implementation of ethical classification within the St John’s College Library & Study Centre’s in-house classification system. I began developing this project when I was processing and classifying books for the new Diversity and Equality Collection, and I realised that many of the topics covered by texts in this collection were difficult to fit into the classification system. For example, the collection features several texts about Britain’s involvement in the slave trade, however the only classmark for slavery came under ‘North American History’. The Diversity and Equality Collection was formed as part of a wider movement across Oxford University to make the university and colleges more inclusive places to study. The collection seeks to amend the historical gaps within the library’s holdings, to ensure that the library represents the diverse community at St John’s College. In light of these motivations behind the collection, I felt it was necessary to alter the library’s in-house classification system through a diversity aware lens.

After submitting a proposal to my line manager, I conducted research to inform my approach. I was interested to find that most classification systems used in the UK, including at St John’s, are informed by western perspectives. Classification systems can appear to be neutral to the outside eye, but classmarks affect how information is presented to and accessed by readers. As a result, certain topics have been overshadowed or hidden within classmarks that do not represent them. During this research, I came across the term ‘ethical classification’, which seeks to enable librarians to make changes to classification systems and feel as though they are doing ‘the right thing’. The goal of ethical classification is the ethical and responsible management of classification systems that represent the diverse and multi-cultural society of today. Using this definition as guidance, I revised the library’s Modern History Classification scheme by looking at the 6446 texts in this section and subsequently altered existing classmarks and introduced new ones. To assist in the continuation of ethical classification at St John’s, I produced a guidance document to inform future reclassification projects.

 

 

 

Law Library Carrels: a User Feedback Survey

Naomi Hart, Law Library

 

The Law Library opened up sixteen of its carrels (study cubicles) to walk-ins during the pandemic, prior to which the majority of the carrels were either reserved to named individuals or had to be booked in advance. In future more “normal” times, the Law Library wanted to know whether to revert to that previous system or introduce something new, i.e. maintaining an increased number of walk-in carrels. The carrels feedback survey gathered information from readers to help inform this decision-making.

My trainee presentation described the purpose behind the survey, timeline and process of creating it, a report of the results to each question (overwhelmingly in favour of opening up the carrels), challenges faced and lessons learned for the future. The presentation ended by sharing some of the lovely comments readers wrote on their forms. Some favourite quotations: “the carrel openness has been glorious in the past few months”; “it’s very nice to feel like I have an ‘office’ to come to work in outside my room”; “they have been an absolute boon in this pandemic.”

 

Slide from the PowerPoint presentation

 

 

 

Shakespearean ekphrasis in New College, MS 367: One manuscript and its story

Anna-Nadine Pike, New College Library

 

I have been the Library Trainee in New College Library this year, and the clear highlight of my role has been the opportunities to work closely with the Library’s remarkable Special Collections, which consists of over four hundred manuscripts, eight hundred incunabula, and several thousands of early printed books. I was keen to use my trainee project as a chance to examine one of the Library’s lesser-known manuscripts in more detail, calling it to light for a wider audience. Although the stars of our Special Collections are very well known, often appearing on websites, communications, social media, and even postcards, many of our manuscripts have not yet had their time in the limelight. This might be because we don’t yet have a complete English manuscripts catalogue; the last full catalogue was completed by Henry Coxe in 1852, in Latin, which is not only quite inaccessible if you don’t happen to know Latin, but is also over 150 years out of date. In fact, the manuscript which I chose to look at, MS 367, has never been catalogued, having only been acquired by New College late in the twentieth century. MS 367 is a presentation manuscript containing a unique and previously unknown poem entitled ‘The Visions of William Collins’, written in 1792 by the poet and playwright, Thomas Powell (1735-1820). Both poem and manuscript mark the publication of a new edition of Shakespeare’s works which had been overseen by Sir John Boydell (1719-1804), printmaker, engraver, and curator of the London Shakespeare Gallery. Boydell wanted to establish what he called the ‘English School of Historical Painting’, and he turned to the works of Shakespeare for his subject matter. Boydell’s own edition of Shakespeare’s plays forms just one aspect of his larger project; he commissioned well-known artists to paint scenes from Shakespeare’s dramas, which would all be exhibited in his Shakespeare Gallery, which was established in an exhibition space in Pall Mall, London, standing there from 1789 to 1805. In time, these paintings were turned into engravings, which were bound and sold, and Boydell’s own edition of Shakespeare’s plays was illustrated with smaller versions of these same engravings.

 

MS 367, a presentation manuscript containing a unique and previously unknown poem, ‘The Visions of William Collins’

 

The focus of my project was, firstly, researching and understanding the contexts for this manuscript’s production, and its wider literary significance. I then presented my findings in a variety of formats, mindful of their different audiences. I got involved with the Taylor Digital Editions project to make the text of the manuscript available online, which felt worthwhile as Powell’s poem, the manuscript itself declares, has never been printed, and seems to survive uniquely in the New College copy. I also made and edited a short film about this manuscript, which I hope will be part of a wider video series which the Library can continue to produce. This was a useful learning curve, as I did not have previous experience with video editing, but the Deputy Librarian and I have since filmed two additional manuscript videos, and our series will launch on our website and social media in Michaelmas 2021. Finally, I also wrote a scholarly article about MS 367 which was recently published in New College Notes, the Library’s journal. The article included my transcription of Powell’s poem, together with a detailed exploration of its literary and cultural contexts. I researched the life of the poet William Collins, Powell’s protagonist, who had himself been a student at Winchester College and intended for New College in 1740. I also considered how far the individual stanzas of Powell’s poem, each of which describes a scene or moment from one of Shakespeare’s plays, related to a painting which hung in Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery in 1792, the year of the manuscript’s composition. Through access to the Weston Library’s Special Collections, I set MS 367 alongside the catalogues printed to accompany Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery, and against the early editions of Boydell’s illustrative Shakespearean prints. I used this to argue that MS 367 works almost as a microcosmic, textual version of Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery; its stanzas are ekphrastic, offering written counterparts to the paintings which Boydell commissioned, and which also illustrated his edition of Shakespeare.

I am glad that the trainee project afforded the opportunity to look at this manuscript, and it was encouraging to see what new work can be done with our Collections items. I am now looking forward to a further year working in New College Library as their Curatorial Assistant, and hope that I can continue some of the research and work which this project inspired.

My New College Notes article: https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2021-07/15NCN11%20%282021%29%20Pike%20on%20MS%20367.pdf

The full journal issue of New College Notes: https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/new-college-notes?page=0

 

Still from the manuscript video

 

 

Farewell from the 2018-19 Trainees

As the 2018-19 trainee scheme draws to a close, we have listed our immediate plans for the future in this blog post. Hopefully this will be useful to anyone thinking of applying to the scheme, or for the next cohort of trainees to have some sense of where they might be heading in a year’s time. All the best to the new trainees starting in September, and good luck to any future applicants to the scheme.

 

Alex Plane, New College

I’m going to be doing the full-time Library and Information Studies MA at UCL, with a focus on manuscripts, palaeography and historical bibliography. I’ll also be working part-time at New College Library as Special Collections Curatorial Assistant.

 

Amy Douglas, St Hugh’s College

I’ve loved my trainee year at St Hugh’s – the work has been diverse and interesting, my colleagues (and the cats) are lovely, and the training sessions have been really useful. I’ll be staying on at St Hugh’s for another 2 years as a Library Assistant, while doing the long-distance Library and Information Services Management MA course at the University of Sheffield. After that, who knows? Might stay in Oxford, or might try and find a Librarian position back home in Scotland. I’ve enjoyed working in an academic library with a modern working collection, so I’ll probably look for roles in similar libraries (but won’t limit myself). The trainee scheme has taught me a lot, and has been an excellent gateway into the profession. Made some friends too – I’m sure we’ll help one another through the masters.

 

Flapjack the cat in a tree

Admiral Flapjack, one of the St Hugh’s College cats.

 

Ben Gable, Sackler Library

I’ll be staying on at the Sackler in a newly-created post.

 

Beth Morgan, Bodleian Reader Services

After a fantastic year in Oxford, I have decided to move to Sheffield to study an MA in Librarianship full-time. I hope to get a part-time job in an academic library alongside this.

 

Elizabeth Piper, Oxford Union Library

I’ll be at the Oxford Union Library as a graduate trainee for another year.

 

Emma Gregory, Sainsbury Library

I really enjoyed my time at the Sainsbury Library. My colleagues were all so welcoming and made me feel part of the team instantly. They were always happy to answer my questions and help me whenever I was stuck. The trainee scheme was a great way to meet other people as well. It was particularly helpful when moving to a new city as it’s great to have other people in the same boat to talk to. I finished my traineeship at the Sainsbury Library at the end of May and moved to St Hilda’s College where I am now the Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach Officer there. A bit of a change from libraries, but I’m really enjoying my new job and having new challenges.

I learnt a great a deal throughout the year, learnt new skills, and met some lovely people. One main tip, if you do apply, don’t be daunted by subject specialist libraries! The Sainsbury Library is a business library, and I’ve never studied Business or Economics and I really enjoyed my time there. If you’re interested in libraries, books, the University of Oxford, definitely apply for the graduate scheme! You never know where you’ll end up!

 

Emmy Ingle, Lady Margaret Hall

I’m planning to stay at LMH Library. I’m excited to keep working on our accessibility and start thinking about new exhibitions.

 

Hannah Thompsett, All Souls College

Next year I will be studying for the Sheffield University MA Library and Information Services Management, part time via distance learning. I will also be working mornings as a Library Assistant at University College, Oxford (commonly referred to as Univ), just over the road from where I am currently based, so I’m not moving far.

 

Harry Bark, St John’s College

I’m going to be taking up a position with a mental health charity in August.

 

Jenna Meek, Bodleian Law Library

After a brilliant year at the Bodleian Law Library, I will miss all my colleagues and fellow trainees in Oxford lots when I return back home to Glasgow to study for a MSc in Information and Library Studies at the University of Strathclyde. I am hoping to be able to get a part-time job in libraries while studying full-time for my masters, and I am very excited but also slightly apprehensive about what the future will bring – wish me luck!

 

Jennifer Garner, Bodleian Reader Services

I’m now working as a library assistant at a faculty library in Oxford, and studying the Sheffield library masters course via distance learning.

 

Katie Day, Taylor Institution

I finished the Taylor traineeship early, at the end of June, in order to start my new, permanent part-time position as Library Assistant across the Taylor, Sackler, and Oriental Institute Libraries, which I have been working in for a month already! Come September, I will be adding studying at UCL, as I take my MA (part-time) in Library and Information Studies. I’ve had a wonderful time as a trainee, and I’m so excited about where I’m going next!

 

Lauren Ward, Bodleian Social Science Library

I will be working as a Senior Library Assistant at St. Anne’s College Library, while completing my LIS MA part-time at UCL come September. Having been completely new to libraries when I started as a trainee, I would have never had the skills or confidence to go into my new role or further study without the traineeship, and am very grateful for the year I’ve had!

 

Leanne Grainger, Christ Church

I have really enjoyed my graduate trainee year at Christ Church Library and the experience really confirmed for me that I really do want to work in Library and Information Services. As such I applied for an MA in Library and Information Services Management at the University of Sheffield, which I will be starting this September. This will be through distance learning and I will be studying part-time over two years. I am also really fortunate to have the opportunity to continue working full-time at Christ Church Library as a Library Assistant for the next year. Both working full-time and studying part-time will be a challenge, but I am really glad I can be working in a library alongside my studies as I think it will keep me motivated and hopefully what I learn in one will help me in the other!

 

Rebecca Leeman, University Archives

I’m going to work on a project in Croatia, ‘Mapping and documentation of industrial heritage’, in Ivanic-Grad. It’s organised by Culture Hub Croatia, in partnership with Friends of Heritage and European Heritage Volunteers. They organise short placements around Europe for young heritage professionals. I suppose it’s a kind of chance to use archival skills in a setting where they are trying to develop a public profile of their heritage.

 

Rebecca presents at the trainee showcase

Rebecca delivering her presentation at the trainee showcase in July 2019.

 

Ross Jones, Bodleian History Faculty Library

I have really enjoyed the Bodleian Graduate Library Traineeship; everyone has been incredibly supportive and receptive, and I will miss my fellow trainees who are leaving Oxford to pursue opportunities elsewhere – I wish them luck!

During the traineeship, my nisus has been toward achieving a place on a library-related Masters programme, so I was pleased to learn earlier this year that I have been accepted to study Library and Information Services Management at Sheffield University. The course is a distance-learning programme taught on a part time basis, which means I can continue to live and work in Oxford. Having recently secured a permanent position here as a Library Assistant, I am a little apprehensive over the prospect of balancing professional and academic commitments, but after speaking to some of my colleagues, I realise I am not alone in this respect!

 

Sally Hamer, Wolfson College

I am going on to UCL to do my MA in Library and Information Studies full-time, for which I will be commuting from Oxford while continuing to look for library jobs.

 

Goodbye to the 2011-12 trainees!

We say a fond farewell to our 2011-12 graduate trainees and wish them all the best in their future careers!  Once again our trainees have had a great year with us.  The project showcase was a real highlight for me this year and I thought the trainees did some really interesting projects and gave some great presentations.   Most of our trainees are going to do a library or archive qualification in the next academic year or near future.  We have successfully recruited to all our trainee posts, with two additional colleges recruiting this year, one for the first time.  Thank you to all of the 2011-12 trainees and best of luck for the future!

Farewell to the 2010-11 Graduate Trainees

We say a fond farewell to our 2010-11 graduate trainees and wish them all the best in their future careers, whatever they may be!  The final Year in Review session was very positive and many of our trainees have had a good year with us.  Approximately half of our trainee cohort are heading off to do a library or archive qualification in the next academic year.  The majority of those who are not going on to immediate study are considering it in the future.  Some of the trainees are staying on in Oxford with us for the foreseeable future, which is always a bonus.  Thank you and best of luck to you all!