Sepia Saturday 120 : Library

Now I know what you are going to say. You are going to say, "hang on a minute, I am sure when I checked the Sepia Saturday call earlier today it said SLEEP". Well all I can say is that you must have fallen asleep and dreamt it. Of course it isn't sleep, because we have had that before as a theme. It is actually LIBRARY because it is National Library Week between the 8th and 14th April. And to prove it, here is a picture of the library on board the ill-fated liner the Mauretania (courtesy of Tyne and Wear Archives via the one and only Flickr Commons). It might be a bit of a challenge, but remember, you can interpret the theme in any way you want, or you can ignore the theme altogether. You can even post a picture to match the theme SLEEP if you want. Whatever the subject of your old image, post your post on or around Saturday 7th April and link to the list below. And talking of lists, I really need a list of past themes before I make a silly mistake.

I floated the idea on the Sepia Saturday Facebook Group the other day of providing a little more warning of the upcoming themes so that people were not having to rummage through their collections at the last minute. So, as an experiment, I thought I would try announcing the proposed themes for the rest of April now (if you like the idea we can introduce a rolling process where the next four themes are listed with every Sepia Saturday Call). The themes for April are as follows:

• SS120  07 April  LIBRARY
• SS121  14 April  FLIGHT
• SS122  21 April  GARDENS
• SS123  28 April  MAY DAY

The "flight" theme (SS121) comes from a suggestion from Marilyn Brindley (Little Nell) that we might want to mark the centenary of the formation of the Royal Flying Corps which falls on the 13th April. SS122 (gardens) is a bit of a commemoration as well as it will coincide with National Garden Day in Andorra (yes, I have made that up in order to cover yet another error in the archives). If anyone has any suggestions for future anniversaries we might want to mark with a Sepia Saturday theme please let me know - with as much advanced warning as possible - and I will try and incorporate them into our rolling programme.

So get yourself off to the library for now and get your thinking caps on for the future. And if you still have any energy left, how about applying for the following job:-

SITUATIONS VACANT : Wanted, Sepia Saturday Archivist and List Keeper. Pay, non-existent. Prospects, limited by imagination alone.

and just in case you want an alternative you could try -