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The Comparator Mirror
The Comparator Mirror
at West Buckland School
By Tomas Georgeson
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once they grow
up."
Pablo Picasso
My work at West Buckland school began on the 1st of September
for a period of one academic year with the purpose of developing, as a
teaching aid, the painting device discovered (or rediscovered) by Tim
Jenison in the film Tim’s Vermeer. In this film Tim Jenison provides
compelling evidence that Vermeer’s paintings were made using a version
of what he has named ‘the comparator mirror’.
The West Buckland School
West Buckland School is fairly typical of modern independent schools in
Britain. The main school comprises approximately students between
the ages of 11 and 18 and a preschool of just under students between
the ages of 11 and 4.
The School boasts many excellent facilities but most notable of all is its
arts department. This includes a very wellequipped design studio, a
stateoftheart one hundred and twenty seat theatre and a fine art
department. This department also includes a dedicated art studio in which
an artistinresidence is invited to work for one academic year beginning
each September. I currently hold this position.
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FOI Request - Most Borrowed Books
Request
I would like some information about the most-borrowed books, authors and DVDs from each of your libraries so far in
I understand the time period will be limited to between January 1 and October
For each of your libraries, please can you list the:
- top 10 most-borrowed books
- top 10 most-borrowed authors
- top 10 most-borrowed DVDs.
Taking into account all of your libraries, please can you also list the
- top 10 most-borrowed books
- top 10 most-borrowed authors
- top 10 most-borrowed DVDs.
Response
Please note: There can be multiple titles with the same amount of issues which is why the list is longer than would be expected as the system gives them equal weight in rankings.
We had a bit of trouble with the top authors, as the no.1 slot in some cases may be blank. This is because baby board books often do not have a specific author attached, so our system displays them all together as a NULL author. In those cases, the actual top author is usually the second one down.
We have included the Mobile Library too, although stats for that only go up to the end of March.
Finally, we removed DVDs from our collection last year so the stats for those would be NIL across the board.
Top Authors by branch:
MORAY_ABERLOU
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