Over the past 18 months, the University of London Research Library
Services (ULRLS), has used funding from the University's
Vice-Chancellor's Development Fund to develop an electronic catalogue
for ULRLS archives and manuscripts on an ADLIB database. Our new
catalogue complements the Innopac database for books, periodicals and
other published materials and makes descriptions of all our unique
archival holdings available online for the first time.
ULRLS holds over 2,000 archive and manuscript collections, in addition
to the historic documents in the University of London Archive. The
range of material is extraordinarily diverse, covering many different
aspects of economic, political, social, cultural and educational history
over more than a thousand years. There are particular strengths in
literary manuscripts, the papers of scholars in the University of
London, politics, and 19th and 20th century records relating to the
United Kingdom and former British colonies. Highlights of the
collections include: the papers of the anti-apartheid activist Ruth
First (ref: ICS117), held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies; the
diaries of late Victorian explorer Mabel Bent (ref: Bent), held at the
Institute of Classical Studies; the correspondence of the social
reformers Charles and Mary Booth (ref: MS797), held at Senate House
Library; and the correspondence and papers of Aby Warburg, founder of
the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, the forerunner of
today's Warburg Institute (refs: WIA, III; WIA, FC and WIA, GC).
The catalogue was launched on 31 May 2007 and is available for
researcher consultation at: http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/. Feedback
on the catalogue is welcomed: please relay comments via the link on the
website.
Richard Temple Andrew Janes
Archivist Project Archives
Assistant
Senate House Library University of London
Research Library Services
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