Programme 2026-27

Our events for the 2026-27 season (running from September-July) are listed below. Attendees will be sent joining instructions prior to the meeting. 

If you have any event suggestions, please email the committee camlibgroup@gmail.com

Upcoming events:

Wednesday 21st October: AGM followed by talk from Richard Reynolds - Optional visit to the Bodies in the Bookshop for nibbles and book browsing

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Tuesday 22nd September: Tour of Queens' College Libraries - 5.30pm - 7pm

Visit to Queens’ Libraries, including the Old Library current exhibition: Sultans, Syntax & Scripture: Encountering the Islamic World at Queens' (1550-1700).

Queens’ Library is divided into two parts: a student library (called the War Memorial Library) comprising c. 35,000 books, and the Old Library, containing c. 30,000 early printed books and manuscripts. The latter retains the building it had soon after the college’s foundation in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou and is thus the earliest library reading room in Cambridge. The War Memorial Library is situated in what was the college’s chapel. First constructed in 1448-9, this underwent extensive remodelling in 1993-4, making it an attractive space for students to work in. 

The visit will include refreshments (tea/coffee biscuits) a tour of the libraries, and a brief curator’s talk on the exhibition.

Meeting place - Munro Room in Old Court. Please report to Queens' porter's lodge on Silver St. and follow directions.

Accessibility information - the Munro Room (for refreshments) is on ground floor. The Old Library and most of the Student Library involves a flight of stairs. Flooring is very uneven in the Old Library.

The tour is limited to 20 spaces and will finish by 7pm.

Wednesday 21st October: AGM followed by talk from Richard Reynolds - Optional visit to the Bodies in the Bookshop for nibbles and book browsing

AGM: 6pm

Talk: 6.20pm

Bookshop from 7pm

Join CLG for our AGM followed, by a talk from Richard Reynolds, owner of the Bodies in the Bookshop.

Voting and attendance of the AGM is for members of CLG only. Non-members should arrive for 6.20pm, and wait outside the meeting room.

About the talk

Richard specialised in crime fiction for 41 years at Heffers before retiring in September 2022 to help Jon Gifford, owner of the Oleander Press, with his reissues of Golden Age (written between 1919-1952 ish) detective fiction - with 25 reissued so far. 

Richard will join us to talk about his life after Heffers, setting up the bookshop and involvement in publishing classic reprints.

After the talk, there will be an opportunity to visit the bookshop for nibbles and book browsing.

19th November - Martin French - Researcher Services Librarian at Natural History Museum - Library and Archives at the Natural History Museum – behind the scenes

Martin French is (one of the) Researcher Services Librarian(s) at the Natural History Museum, London. Previously he has been Senior Library Assistant at the Scott Polar Research Institute and various library jobs around Cambridge. His undergrad studies focused on languages and his masters on music librarianship, but he wound up in science and museum libraries. Now he attempts to bring a humanities perspective to the (predominantly) scientific collections he works with.

Join us for an insightful talk on Natural History Museum libraries.

Online via Microsoft Teams, 5.45pm for a 6pm start. Link will be circulated prior to the event.

3rd December - CLG Christmas Meal at The Park, CRC

CLG Members are invited to a Christmas Meal at The Park, CRC - 6.15pm.

Spaces are limited to 14. Booking and more information to follow. Members only.

Friday 11th December - CLG Board Games Night (Bonus event!!)

Join CLG for a Board Games Night and festive fun at the Moore Library.

More details to follow

January - Twelfth Night at CUP Bookshop

CLG members only event - date and time TBC

Thursday 25th February - Talk from Leontien Talboom, Technical Analyst

Talk from Leontien Talboom, Technical Analyst, University Libraries and Archives. Join us to hear more about Leontien's work, and her project Future Nostalgia.

Location: Moore Library