I arrived in Berlin on Monday 16 March as one of the twelve University of Edinburgh
Library colleagues participating in an international exchange visit with the Freie Universitat Berlin. We were blessed with glorious weather and a very warm welcome from colleagues at the FUB, who joined us on the first evening for a welcome meal at the Schwartzes Café. On Tuesday morning, I was greeted at the FUB by Dr Helen Younansardaroud, subject specialist for Ancient history, Orient and Religions, who I had previously met at UK and European theological library conferences. I was also welcomed by Dr Peter Smolak, who recently visited the UoE Library on a two week placement where he gave us the benefit of his Hebrew skills as a Jewish Studies specialist to catalogue some of the New College Library book collections.
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