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Please let Jon Griffith know (not me!) if you plan to attend the
seminar, and also if you want to join the tour/* */([log in to unmask])/*
The Women's Library, 25 Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT*
>*Centre for Institutional Studies Seminars, Spring 2009* *All staff,
>postgraduate students, and friends of the Centre are invited to the
>following seminars (with tea, coffee and cakes)
>
>:* *Thursday 28 May, 4.00-5.30 * *Dr Jane Grant: From small beginnings -
>the past and future of the Women's Library;* *at the Library, in London E1
>(with an optional tour of the reading room)*
>
>This seminar will provide a quick look at the history of the Women's
>Library - from its origins in a disused pub in 1924/5 to its world status
>today - and use this as as starting point for discussion on research
>questions about acquisitions/ audience/ funding/ role with library staff,
>users, members of the Friends etc.
>Dr Jane Grant has been involved in the women's movement for many years -
>as participant, activist and researcher. She is currently a visiting
>research fellow at the Centre for Insititional Studies at UEL, researching
>the history of the Fawcett Society, of which the Library was a constituent
>part till 1977. She is particularly interested in how an organisation like
>Fawcett has managed to adapt to changing conditions and keep itself at the
>cutting edge of women's equality for nearly 150 years. Jane is an
>enthusiastic user of the Library and currently writing its short history.
>
>*At the Women's Library, with a tour of the reading room (conducted by
>Teresa Doherty) at 3.30*
> *Address: The Women's Library, 25 Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT*
>*/Please let Jon Griffith know if you plan to attend the seminar, and also
>if you want to join the tour/* */([log in to unmask])/*
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Dr Elizabeth Shepherd FRSA, PhD, MA, BA, DMS, DAS, Fellow of the HEA, RMSA
Reader in archives and records management
Departmental Graduate Research Tutor
Vice-Chairman, International Council on Archives - Section for
Archival Education
Department of Information Studies
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
tel: +020 7679 2945
fax: +020 7383 0557
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/elizabeth-shepherd/
Please note that Elizabeth works part-time. Her usual work days are
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
The UCL Department of Information Studies was previously known as the
School of Library, Archive & Information Studies (SLAIS).
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