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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies

Saturday, 17 November 2018 (British Library and Room 246 Senate House)

Modern Languages Archives and Libraries



11.00   Meet a specialist librarian at the British Library (Marja Kingma, British Library)



• The British Library as a home of modern language collections



• Electronic resources (free and restricted to reading rooms)



• Projects (eg Google Books)



• Exhibitions and events (eg European Literature Night)



• Practical information and tips (eg how to apply for a reader’s pass, how to search the catalogue, etc.)



• Show and tell of collection items (please feel free to make suggestions for material you’d like to see)



13.30   Lunch break



15.00   Special collections and digital collections at KCL (Adam Ray, Curator and Special Collections Manager, KCL) and using web archives (Naomi Wells, IMLR)



16.00   The exile collections in the University of London’s Germanic Studies Archives (Clare George, Miller Archivist, IMLR).


This seminar will use the IMLR’s collections on German-speaking exiles from Nazi-occupied Europe to look at ways of finding and including archival material in research and outreach projects.





With all best wishes.


Katia Pizzi


Senior Lecturer, Italian Studies

Director, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory

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INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study • University of London

Senate House

Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU


International Conference Memories of the Future, 29-30 March 2019.

Website: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16177

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/memoriesfutur/

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