Dear All,
I am delighted to invite you to the next workshops of our IMLR Research Training Programme.
This is a unique opportunity to learn about the Wiener Library resources and Modern Languages Archives and Libraries. All welcome!
Places for these sessions are limited, so please make sure you book a place, as suggested below.
I look forward to seeing you at the workshops.
Best wishes,
Emanuela
22 November - Wiener Library Seminar (Wiener Library).
9.30 -10.00
Registration Participants to gather in the Weldon Room
10.00-12.00
Archive Skills training with the Wiener Library's longstanding archivist Howard Falksohn. This training session will help students acquire skills to locate archival material on subjects including: the Holocaust, twentieth-century German history and European Jewish culture. It will also provide students with skills to access these materials and make use of their content.
The session will be followed by the tour of the Wiener Library. This begins with a group tour of the Library's exhibition 'The First Holocaust Archive: 80 Years of Alfred Wiener's Library', following on a tour of the Wolfson Reading Room. After this there will also be an opportunity for smaller groups to visit the library collections in the basement.
12.00
Break
2.00-3.00
Seminar led by Dr. Anthony Grenville from the Exile Centre (IMLR). The seminar will focus on the experience of Jewish refugees in exile in Britain.
*Places for these sessions are limited, so please book a place via email at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or by calling 0207 636 7247.
23 November - room G 37 (Senate House) and British Library. Modern Languages Archives and Libraries
11.00
Catalogue and database searching and other information literacy on Germanic and Romance language based research: Andrea Meyer Ludowisy (Senate House Library), for Western Languages + Richard Espley (Senate House Library), for British, Irish postcolonial languages
12.00-1.30
Using Modern Languages libraries and building a bibliography: Dr Colette Wilson (IMLR and Westminster)
1.30-2.30
Lunch
2.30-3.30
Roundtable discussion panel: using specialist libraries and archives in: France (Bill Marshall, IMLR), Germany (Godela Weiss-Sussex, IMLR), Latin America (Jordana Blejmar, IMLR), Italy (Emanuela Patti, IMLR), Portugal and Russia (Maria-Jose Homem, IMLR).
4.00 -6.00
Meet a specialist British Library librarian: Marja Kingma (British Library)
*Show-and-tell visit to the British Library collections: please register in advance as numbers are limited* Email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> to book a place
Dr. Emanuela Patti
Institute of Modern Languages Research
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Stewart House
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
Tel. n. 02078628962
Fax. n. 02078628672
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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