Notices

Urgent: The librarian has lost all of her email and email addresses! If you have recently been in touch (before May 2nd 2009), please re-send your message. Apologies for the inconvenience.

New books for sale:

We have a range of new books available for sale from the library or by post. If you buy a copy from us then up to one third of the cover price goes to support the Institute and the library at no additional cost to you. Titles include:
The Great Northern Miner by Ken and Jean Smith - £12.95
Coals from Newcastle by Les Turnbull £10.95
History of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway - Bill Fawcett - £24.95
Collieries of Beamish - Garry O Hagan - £12.95
The Making of a prodigy - Robert Stephenson by Victoria Haworth - £9.95
Thomas Elliot Harrison - £4.99
The Odyssey by Raymond Hicks £5
Seam by Sheree Mack - £4
A Dying Breed - £4

Please do call into the Institute Library for your copies or call Jennifer on 0191 2332459 for more information (P&P extra).

Volunteers wanted!

New volunteers are always welcomed at the Institute to help with our ongoing projects to improve access to the collections. Some work can even be done at home via the internet so please do contact our librarian, Jennifer Kelly on 0191 2332459 or email her if you have some time available.

Annual Report and members notice :
Click Here to download the 2007-2008 Annual Report.

A merger is currently being considered with the Lit and Phil library. You can download the Draft Royal Charter and Draft Byelaws and comments are welcomed to office@mininginstitute.org.uk

The Institute is a registered charity incorporated by Royal Charter (Charity no: 220208).