News: For a list of jobs, click here

New pages on the website:

The GCG website has two new pages containing information about jobs and non-GCG events:

Jobs contains information about current vacancies in the sector: access this from the News page or the home page

Other Meetings lists non-GCG meetings which may be of interest: access this via the Meetings page

Both of the new pages will build on the success of our JISC mailing list, which continues to provide its users with up-to-date information and support. These new pages will rely heavily on your input!

To submit information about jobs or events, simply post the details to the JISC mailing list. If you do not use the JISC mailing list, please send details to the webmaster.

Brighton medal awarded to Geoffrey Tresise

At the AGM in Dublin on 3 December Mandy Edwards will have the honour of presenting the 7^th Brighton Medal to Dr Geoffrey Tresise.

Geoff Tresise was at Liverpool Museum from 1960 until his retirement. He was instrumental in rebuilding the geological collections after the 2^nd World War. He has written extensively about Triassic vertebrate footprints, particularly Chirotherium

The Geological Curator goes online...

The Geological Curators' Group are pleased to announce that back copies of the Geological Curator are starting to go on-line.

All the issues from the first volume, which began in in 1977 are now available on our archives page.

Have a look and see which copies you are missing, what issues were affecting museums in the 1970s or just reminisce!

Update...

Please note that Volume 1 has been completed and volume 2 is underway (numbers 1-3 and 7 now online).

If you urgently need an article that is not yet online, please contact Hannah Chalk

Tiffany's baby!

Members who know Tiffany Adrain, formerly of the Natural History Museum and a GCG Committee member now at the University of Iowa, will be delighted to hear that she and her husband Jonathan have had a baby boy, James Conor, born on 5 June.