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Survey of Outstanding Material for Retrospective Conversion and
Retrospective Cataloguing in CURL Libraries
1. Purpose and nature of the survey
Following RSLP, CURL Members were asked to take stock and look again at what
remains to be done in their institutions in terms of retrospective conversion (i.e.
automation of manual catalogues) and retrospective cataloguing (i.e. electronic
cataloguing of un-catalogued material) after July 03. The date of July 03 was chosen
on the grounds that some CURL libraries would be using some of their 2002-03
RSLP Access money for this work. The purpose of the survey is to identify the extent
and nature of the outstanding material across the Consortium with a view to exploring
the possibility of seeking further funding collaboratively, in particular, in co-operation
with Full Disclosure.
Members were asked to provide the following information:
 Number of items
 Subject areas and name of collections, if relevant
 Date range
 Languages
 Format
 Importance of the material for research
Members were asked not to include archival collections, as this is an area that is
being handled by the Archives Hub.
2. Methodology and broad trends
Most of CURL’s 25 full members and CURL’s partner, SAS, have responded to the
call for information from the CURL Secretariat and most of them have provided very
detailed information. The report contains all the information passed on to the
Secretariat, which has been organised as follows:
 Arts & Humanities
 Social Sciences
 Science & Technology
 Area / Local Studies
 Cross-disciplinary collections (cutting across Arts & Humanities, Social
Sciences and Science & Technology)
 Grey literature
 Serials
 Maps
 Theses
 Miscellaneous
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Within each section, the cross-subject collections are listed first, and then subject
and sub-subjects are listed by alphabetic order. Under the subjects and sub-subjects
headings, the collections are organised per institutions, e.g.:
Science & Technology
Medicine
Aberdeen
Birmingham
Bristol etc.
Note that abbreviations have been used to refer to institutions, e.g. University of
Warwick is referred to as Warwick. The Institutions’ full names can be found in
Appendix A of this document.
Details of all the material can be found in section 3 of the document. Here is a
summary of the main results and broad trends.
Number of items per subject / format – at consortial level
Subject areas
Arts & Humanities
Social Sciences
Science & Technology
Area / local studies
Cross-disciplinary
Grey literature
Serials
Maps
Theses
Miscellaneous
Total
Number of items for retrospective
conversion / cataloguing
2,840,350
318,271
640,196
447,861
4,695,689
809,689
89,110
3,465,292
632,340
96,811
14,035,609
In %
20.24
2.27
4.56
3.19
33.46
5.77
0.63
24.69
4.51
0.69
100.00
Note that:

Music – 1,176,729 items – makes up 41% of the Arts & Humanities category.
Most of it – ca. 1,000,000 items – is sheet music.

The figure for maps needs to be examined with some degree of caution, as
some maps are catalogued at series or set level rather than individually, with
the result that one single bibliographic record can describe several hundreds
or even thousands of items. For example, the Bodleian Library estimates its
number of maps at 1,150,000 – this is the figure used in the above table – but
anticipates that the number of records to be created is likely to be around
200,000.
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Priority in terms of research
Institutions were asked to describe the significance of the material for researchers
using the terms High, Medium or Low. There was no consortial discussion aimed at
defining these terms more precisely. However, it might be of some interest to note
that some institutions modified their decisions after seeing the first draft of the
document, which might indicate that some degree of spontaneous cross-institutional
comparison took place.
Arts & Humanities
Social Sciences
Science & Technology
Areas / Local Studies
Cross-disciplinary
Grey Literature
Maps
Theses
Miscellaneous
Average
High
53.29%
48.59%
55.79%
59.19%
18.70%
30.28%
38.10%
26.84%
51.18%
42%
Medium
19.30%
16.99%
10.17%
11.26%
8.47%
27.44%
6.96%
68.42%
14.06%
20%
Low
5.75%
7.54%
10.38%
0.51%
0.88%
5.25%
0.58%
0.00%
33.13%
7%
Unidentified
21.66%
26.88%
23.67%
29.04%
71.94%
37.03%
54.36%
4.74%
1.63%
30%
Music
High
62.83%
Medium
2.98%
Low
5.54%
Unidentified
28.65
Some comments:

The high priority figures for the three main subject areas – first three in the
table – are, perhaps surprisingly, very similar. It is worth noting, however, that
Science and Technology has the highest percentage of low priority material of
the three.

Area / Local Studies show the highest high priority figure – just below 60%.

The high priority figure for the miscellaneous category is also high – an
indication, perhaps, that the term is used when the collection is difficult to
categorise, which does not mean that it is deemed of small importance to
researchers.

In the unidentified priority column, the most striking figure refers to crossdisciplinary collections - just below 72%. It could perhaps be deduced from
this very high figure that some of these collections might need to be examined
further before it can be decided whether or not researchers and other users
would really benefit from their being electronically catalogued.

The second highest figure for unidentified priority is the Maps one at 54%.

In the case of Music, 61.54% of the high priority material is at the Bodleian.
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On a more general note, it is important to bear in mind that, while these figures are
useful in identifying priorities for the CURL community, cross-sector and crossdomain projects might require a rather different approach to prioritising.
Retrospective conversion versus retrospective cataloguing
The Members were asked to distinguish between retrospective conversion and
retrospective cataloguing on the grounds that the latter is sometimes thought to be
more time-consuming and therefore more costly than the former.
For clarity’s sake, this is the way both activities were defined:
 Retrospective conversion means automation of manual catalogues, i.e.
the material is already described in, say, a card catalogue or a hand list.
 Retrospective cataloguing means that the material has to be catalogued
from scratch.
Some libraries also expressed the wish to have electronic records in need of
upgrading included in the figures. However there might be libraries which have not
included their material in need of upgrading in their replies for the very good reason
that they were not asked to do so in the first place.
It is important to note that this request has often triggered off an informal debate
about whether conversion and upgrading are really less time-consuming and
therefore less costly than cataloguing. There seems to be a strong feeling amongst
the community that conversion and upgrading are as time-consuming as cataloguing
– if not more – because of the usually poor quality of the records available. It is often
the case that cataloguers retrocon or upgrade with items in hand because the
existing records are so below standard. It might therefore be the case that the
following figures are not of particularly great importance:
Number of items
In %
Conversion
10,623,726
75.69
Cataloguing
3,110,980
22.16
82,311
0.59
218,592
1.56
14,035,609
100.00
Upgrading
Unidentified
TOTAL
Note that 227,180 records have been equally split between cataloguing and
conversion, the institutions having indicated that the collections needed both, without,
however, specifying any particular figure.
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Some information on languages
Subjects
Mainly
English
English
Western
languages
Other
languages
TOTAL
1,347,963
2,840,350
Arts and Humanities
226,715
284,252
777,655
Social Sciences
108,807
50,007
11,789
147,668
318,271
Science & Technology
35,730
391,232
44,130
169,104
640,196
Area/Local Studies
13,493
2,000
179,200
136,161
117,007
447,861
Cross-disciplinary
57,850
810,967
1,329,820
270,400
2,226,652
4,695,689
360,789
216,950
231,950
809,689
32,310
56,800
89,110
Grey Literature
Serials
203,765
Not
specified
115,040
1,300
21,000
3,327,952
3,465,292
Theses
37,340
5,000
430,000
160,000
632,340
Miscellaneous
15,320
55,678
2,528
23,285
96,811
971,084
1,849,696
2,796,122
7,808,381
14,035,609
Maps
TOTAL
610,326
Note that if only the material where the language has been specified is taken into
account, 45% of it is in English or mainly in English, 45% is in a variety of Western
languages, and 10% in other languages.
Some information on format
Subjects
Collections including pamphlets,
broadsides and tracts
Arts and Humanities
258,296
Social Sciences
76,420
Science & Technology
50,217
Area/Local Studies
52,900
Cross-disciplinary
1,631,340
Miscellaneous
6,900
TOTAL
2,076,073
Note that this is not the number of pamphlets, but rather the amount of material that
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Number of items per institution
Arts &
Humanities
Aberdeen
Birmingham
Social
Sciences
17,022
900
148,050
93,500
Bristol
293,600
Cambridge
217,000
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Crossdisciplinary
Grey
Literature
Serials
Maps
Theses
3,081
2,300
6,084
12,000
200
20,000
600
62,187
0.44
53,790
10,000
180,000
7,240
492,580
3.51
11,688
0.08
25,000
663
880,900
124,000
72,300
765,800
150,000
550
20,650
1,989
120,000
180,000
35,000
10,000
10,000
69,590
31,500
47,300
19,300
Imperial
KCL
Area / Local
Studies
162,580
79,860
2,880
67,000
600
1,000
6,000
ULL
314,163
6,000
5,000
3,900
LSE
1,125
513
30,000
39,885
Manchester
2,000
3,000
750,000
150,000
121,000
25,000
1,000
3,000
22,750
139,000
5,902
28,000
20,800
400
1,370,100
9.76
23,852
0.17
365,000
2.60
46,228
217,918
1.55
300
48,147
0.34
102,620
0.73
285,970
2.04
76,600
0.55
432,563
3.08
93,473
0.67
755,000
5.38
2,000
2,000
85,500
6,950
6
10,000
18,000
5,000
In %
11.57
5,500
38,250
TOTAL
1,624,500
12,000
10,000
18,145
2,000
Liverpool
19,000
3,000
44,370
Leeds
Misc.
11,688
BL
Durham
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Newcastle
9,250
1,550
6,960
NLS
349,820
3,100
965
3,000
270,616
263,200
Nottingham
144,436
42,765
916
10,400
7,820
45,100
Oxford
715,494
18,750
352,300
183,640
224,383
118,200
19,633
2,233
SAS
18,500
1,651,350
1,578
2,546,529
251,437
43,610
1,210,000
415,000
4,505
55,778
56,320
80,000
2,553
TCD
250,500
26,689
11,500
1,255,000
UCL
16,134
Warwick
12,100
TOTAL
700
3,168
Sheffield
Southampton
2,900
40
2,840,350
3,871
71,550
51,500
29,034
22,300
318,271
640,196
447,861
4,695,689
809,689
7
1,200
89,110
3,465,292
632,340
96,811
3,285,882
0.13
18.14
1.79
23.41
25,034
0.18
55,778
0.40
427,562
3.05
1,306,500
9.31
120,589
0.86
35,600
0.25
14,035,609
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3. Details of outstanding material
Arts & Humanities
Subjects
Arts &
Humanities –
Cross-subject
Institutions
Named Collections /
Descriptions
Number of
items (ca.)
Date
range
Languages
Birmingham
Main Library
7,800
1914-1971
English, French,
German, Spanish, Italian
Birmingham
Main Library
56,000
Mainly
1850-1971
Glasgow
American University Publications
15,000
C19-20
English, French,
German, Spanish,
Italian, Greek
English
Glasgow
KCL
German Academy Publications
Humanities Store material
500
6,000
C19-20
1850-1980
KCL
Unclassified material
8,000
1801-1950
KCL
Humanities material on open
access
Theology, European history,
English, French, German &
Portuguese literature
Incl. art, architecture,
bibliography, Eng. lit., philosophy
& theatre
1,700
1850-1980
Leeds
35,000
C19-20
8
German
English, French,
German, Greek,
Portuguese
English, Greek, Indian
languages, Portuguese
English, French,
German, Portuguese
Format
(other than
books)
Pamphlets
Pamphlets
(mostly)
Research
Importance
Conversion,
cataloguing
High
Conversion
High
Conversion
High
Conversion
High
Medium
Cataloguing
Conversion
Medium
Cataloguing
Medium
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Medium
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Continuing Education Library
(mostly arts & soc. sciences)
Newcastle
Nottingham
Brough Collection
Mainly literature and military &
colonial history
Edwin Clarke Collection
Fletcher Collection (Classics &
other arts subjects)
St Mary’s College Material
(Literature, history, history of
education)
Coventry Patmore Collection
Nottingham
East Midlands Collections
Oxford
Stratford collection
Christ Church College
Modern history, biography,
genealogy, modern languages
Merton College
English STC items
Theology, classics, history
Merton College
Upper Library/Special Coll.
History, theology, classics, law,
travel
Merton College
Locked stacks
New College
All subjects (with some social
sciences and science &
technology items)
Newcastle
Newcastle
Newcastle
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Pembroke College
Arabic , C20 (150)
50,000
1970-
Mainly English with 23% in a wide range of
other languages
Mainly English
Low
Conversion
Low
Cataloguing
3,000
C19- Early
C20
1,100
3,000
C20
C19-Early
C20
C19
English
Greek, Latin, English
Low
Low
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
English
Low
Cataloguing
English
High
Conversion
High
Conversion
640
Mostly
C19Mostly
C20
(2,745
pre-1914
1600-1800
6,060
1800-1920
Mainly English
Incl.
pamphlets
Conversion
English, French,
German, Italian, Latin
Incl.
pamphlets
Conversion
English, German,
French, Latin
Mainly English; Greek,
Latin, German, Slavonic
Incl.
pamphlets
Incl. ca. 200
scores
(some mss),
ca. 200
microfilms,
ca. 400 mss
Conversion
200
62
10,400
4,000
3,460
1850-1970
20,000
C15-19
10,950
C17-20
9
English
Incl.
pamphlets
and maps
Chiefly Latin and
English, but various
other languages
English, Latin, Greek,
Arabic
Cataloguing
High /
Medium /
Low
depending
on items
Conversion
mostly, but
cataloguing for
music and
microfilms
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Oxford
SAS
Southampton
Southampton
UCL
UCL
ULL
ULL
Stack items, C20, various
subjects (1,800)
Antiquarian (9,000)
Sommerville College
Incl. libraries of John Stuart Mill,
Amelia B. Edwards (novelist &
Egyptologist) & Percy Withers
Worcester College
George Clarke collection
Gower collection
Pottinger collection
Mixed academic subjects
Warburg collections
Pre-1800 printed books (incl.
Hartley Collection & 2 parish
libraries)
Theology, philosophy, history,
literature
Colonial Discourses, Series 1:
women, travel & empire, 16601914
History, English Literature
Strong Room E
Rare English and foreign books
Librarian’s Room
Classics & humanities books
form the Morris Library, incl. rare
Icelandic material from the
Daulby-Roscoe collection and
other material
Bliss stack sequences
Wide variety of subjects
Fixed Location sequence
Wide variety of subjects
20,000
Mainly English, some
German, French, Latin,
Greek
11,500
Mainly
C18-19,
some c1620
1500-1900
English, French,
German, Italian,
Spanish, Greek, Latin
High
Conversion
15,633
C16-C20
German, Latin, Italian,
French, Greek, Dutch,
English, Spanish,
Russian, Georgian,
Armenian, Semitic
languages, Japanese
English, Latin, Greek,
French, Italian, German,
Spanish
High
Conversion
Incl. C19
serials
Medium
Conversion
Microfilm (50
reels)
High
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
High
Conversion
Medium
Conversion &
cataloguing
Conversion &
cataloguing
4,500
1480-1800
200
1660-1914
1,171
English
English and others
622
36,890
C18-20
18,000
C15-20
10
English & Western
European
English & Western
European
Conversion
Medium
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ULL
ULL
ULL
ULL
ULL
ULL
UCL
Anthropology
Oxford
Oxford
Archaeology
Birmingham
Birmingham
Early material candidate for
CURL Britain in Print
Graveley Parish Library
Private library of Henry Trotter,
rector of Graveley
Early material candidate for
CURL Britain in Print
Incunabula
Littleton
Early printed music and printed
treatises
Early material candidate for
CURL Britain in Print
Malcolm Morley Library
Collection of actor-manager and
stage director Malcolm Morley
(1890-1966) in 200 vols
Old classification sequence
Special collections
Early material candidate for
CURL Britain in Print
Research collections
Currently being de-duplicated
English, Bibliography &
Palaeography Glass Case
Collections
9.2 metres
Anthropology (Departmental
library)
Incl. items on linguistics and
sociology
Pitt Rivers Museum Library
Anthropology, ethnography and
archaeology
Main Library
Main Library
1,400
133
20
C17-18
Medium
Cataloguing
1480-1676
Medium
Medium
Cataloguing
Conversion
4,000
C18-20
English & Western
European
Medium
Cataloguing
25,000
C15-20
Medium
Conversion
3,000
C15-20
English & Western
European
English & Western
European
Medium
Conversion
210,000
C19-20
Medium
Conversion
Medium
Conversion
Low
Conversion
Medium
Conversion
High
High
Conversion
Conversion
Incl.
pamphlets
English & Western
European
C19-20
13,600
1850-1990
70% English, French,
German, Spanish etc.
7,400
650
5,400
11
1914-71
Mainly
1850-1971
English, German
English, German
Incl.
pamphlets
(10,000) and
serials (100)
Incl. 100
theses &
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Glasgow
Glasgow
Society series etc.
Cat 2
300
2,100
C20?
Pre-1980
Mainly English
Mainly English
Warwick
Kitzinger Collection
Incl. Byzantine, early Christian
and early and late medieval art
3,600
Mostly
1980-90s,
with some
pre 1980s
English, French, Italian,
Spanish, German,
Greek, Danish, SerboCroat, Russian,
Japanese, Arabic,
Slovakian, Turkish
Birmingham
Barber
30,000
1590-1991
English, French,
German, Italian,
Spanish, Dutch
Glasgow
Leeds
Cat 2
Read Collection (art theory &
criticism)
Illustrated & Gott books
Hallward Library
Art history, architecture
Leeds
Nottingham
Oxford
UCL
Sales, exhibition
& auction
catalogues
Birmingham
Birmingham
BL
NLS
Oxford
Worcester College
George Clark collection
Rare books an prints on
architecture
Flaxman Collection
Works with illustrations by John
Flaxman
Exhibition catalogues
Sales catalogues
Auction sale catalogues
Scottish Arts Council Collection
of Art Catalogues
12 boxes
Harding F 144Bodleian, Rare Books section
Sale and auction catalogues
1,800
7,000
450
10,550
500
Pre-1980
C19-20
C18-19
Mostly
C20- ; 550
C19
1500-1800
Mostly English; some
West Europeans and a
few non-Roman
English, Italian, French,
German
19
3,500
35,000
12,000
1,500
12
Incl.
offprints,
reviews,
conference
papers,
lecture notes
and art
catalogues
Incl.
pamphlets
Books and
prints
High
High
Cataloguing
Conversion
High
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
High
High
Conversion
Cataloguing
High
High
Cataloguing
Conversion
High
Conversion
High
Conversion
Mainly
post-18501991
C17C19
English, French,
German, Italian,
Spanish, Dutch
English, German
English
High
Conversion
High
High
Cataloguing
Conversion
Cataloguing
C19-20
Mainly English
High
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Bibliography
Nottingham
Genealogy
History
Glasgow
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Glasgow
Glasgow
Leeds
Leeds
Leeds
Leeds
Nottingham
Johnson auction catalogues
Bodleian, Rare Books section
Johnson exhibition catalogues
Bodleian, Rare Books section
Hallward Library
1,150
C18-20
English & French
High
Cataloguing
358
C18-20
Mainly English
High
Cataloguing
Conversion
900
350
2,400 English, 700
Western European, 200
other Roman, 100 non
Roman
Mainly English
English
Medium
BE1-6
Conference Centre (Gordon of
Cairness collection)
Tarradale House Library
(incl. biography)
Society series etc.
Store
History, incl. local history
Mostly
C20- ;
some
C18-19
Pre-1820
C19-C20
High
Low
Conversion
C18-20
Range of modern
European languages
Mainly English
Mainly English
Medium to
low
High
High
Medium
Cataloguing
High
High
High
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
Medium
Conversion
Medium
High
Cataloguing
Conversion
High
Conversion
High
Cataloguing
Liddle Collection (WWI)
War Books Collection (WWI & II)
Sir Angus Fraser Gypsy
Collection
Hallward Library
3,400
6,000
600
1,900
15,000
2,500
1,860
2,500
27,050
C20?
Pre-1968
C19-20
C20
C20
Oxford
History Faculty Library
Modern and medieval history
14,000
Mostly
C20-;
some C19
Post-1850
Oxford
Oxford
800
20,000
C18-20
1500-1900
Southampton
Dew
Worcester College
Early printed books on
antiquities & history, incl. English
history – much rare or unique
Wing material
History Sources Collection
Southampton
Anti-slavery Collection
4,000
500
13
18C-19C
Mostly English; some
Western European and
non Roman
English, some Western
European (French,
German)
Various
English, French,
German, Italian,
Spanish, Latin
Incl.
pamphlets
Mainly English, German,
French, Spanish, Latin
Printed
primary
documents
and
calendars
Microforms
English, French
Incl. 15,000
C17-C18
pamphlets
Cataloguing
Conversion
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Anti-slavery movement, Society
of Friends (Quakers)
Southampton
Southampton
Oxford
UCL
UCL
UCL
Warwick
Dutch history
SAS
Economic history
Birmingham
Birmingham
LSE
ULL
English Civil War
(25 reels);
incl.
Pamphlets &
tracts
Institute of Jewish Affairs (now
Institute for Jewish Policy
Research) research collection
German & Soviet history, human
rights
Institute of Jewish Affairs (now
Institute for Jewish Policy
Research) / Main Library
German & Soviet history, human
rights, Jewish history
Powell antiquarian
Bodleian Rare Books section
History Store (History B)
Pre-1851 history books
118.8 metres
Some rare material
Lansdowne & Halifax Tracts
Halifax: 1559-1749 Civil War,
politics etc.
Lansdowne: 1679-1776: politics.
History, theology, France,
Belgium etc.
29.84 metres
Candidate for CURL Britain in
Print
Lord Somers Tracts
1 metre
Nazism Collection
4,000
1950-
English, German,
Russian, Hebrew
5,000
1950-
English, German,
Russian, Hebrew
Pamphlets
(37 shelves)
C18-19
Mainly English
Medium
Institute of Historical Research
Dutch Pamphlets
Main Library
Main Library
S.R.R. (Civil War tracts)
Bromhead Library
53
4,530
Pre-1851
5,500
16
400
C19
1,000
1930s1940s
1602-1814
German and some
French
Dutch, Latin
800
4,800
725
2,750
1914-71
1850-71
1640s
Post-1830
English
English
English
Mostly English, some
14
High
Cataloguing
High
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Incl.
pamphlets
and serials
Medium
Conversion
Pamphlets
High
Cataloguing?
Pamphlets
High
Cataloguing
Medium
Conversion
Pamphlets
High
Cataloguing
Pamphlets
High
High
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Tracts
Incl.
High
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French history
Leeds
Nottingham
Oxford
Personnel collection of Colonel
A C Bromhead
Also incl. history of London
Early material candidate for
CURL Britain in Print
Pencheon Collection
French Revolution
French Revolution Collection
Normandy
history
SAS
Penal Reform
Warwick
Vet. E exclusions
Bodleian Rare Books section
French politics and
parliamentary papers
Institute of Historical Research
Gift from National Archives,
published inventories of French
government departments
Institute of Historical Research
Wright bequest
French political history
Harry Ward Library
Anglo-Jewish history
Marischal Museum collection
(working / reference library of the
Marischal Museum
Hamilton Collection
Military history & biography, incl.
some English lit.
Liddell Hart Collection
Military history & strategy
Maurice Collection
Military history
Institute of Historical Research
Douglas bequest
Medieval history
Howard League material
Peninsular War
Southampton
Ward Collections
SAS
SAS
Jewish history
Southampton
Military history
Aberdeen
KCL
KCL
KCL
– C20
Western European
broadsides,
prints &
maps
2,850
1,400
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
High
Cataloguing
C18-
West European
807
C18-19
French
750
C20
French
High
Cataloguing
C19-C20
French, English
High
Cataloguing
1940-
Mainly English
400
C19-C21
Mainly English
Medium
Cataloguing
600
1830-1940
English
Low to
Medium
Cataloguing
1,900
1850-1970
English
High
Conversion
470
1801-1950
English
High
Cataloguing
750
C18-C20
French, English
High
Cataloguing
2,000
Late19Cearly 20C
1800?-
English
Medium
Conversion
High
Cataloguing
1500
500
15
English, French,
Incl. serials
and
pamphlets
Official
papers
High
Pamphlets,
ephemera
Incl.
Pamphlets
Incl.
Cataloguing
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Peninsular War & early 19C
Spanish history
Political & labour
movements
LSE
Southampton
ULL
Warwick
Regional history
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Social History
Leeds
Leeds
Oxford
World War I
UCL
Spanish, Portuguese
Collections E, D & G
E: Webb Trade-Union Collection
D: Central London Omnibus
Dispute, May 1937
G: History of book production
Anti-slavery Collection
Anti-slavery movement, Society
of Friends (Quakers)
400
1820s1930s
English
500
18C-19C
English, French
Burns Library
Labour movements, socialism
etc.
Maitland-Sara-Hallinan
Collection
Papers re. Left-wing political
activities, collected by Henry
Sara
Library of Alexander Keith, NE
historian, writer, journalist (incl.
agricultural history)
Meldrum House Library (typical
Aberdeenshire country house
library)
Special Books (general stock,
incl. 500 Scottish chapbooks)
Library of Alexander Thomson of
Banchory and his family
British local studies
Yorkshire local studies
Lawn
Bodleian Rare Books section
1914-18 Collection
Contemporary material on First
World War
3,000
Late C1920
Mainly English with
some Western European
3,500
1927-55
English
3,400
C18-20
Pamphlets
(300),
broadsides
& serials
Conversion
Microforms
(25 reels);
incl.
pamphlets &
tracts
Incl. serials
& pamphlets
High
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
Incl. serials
&
Pamphlets
High
Cataloguing &
Conversion
Mainly English
Low
Conversion
C17-C19
Classical
Low
Conversion
1,050
C17-19
Various
High
Conversion
300
C16-19
Various
High
Conversion
C16-19
Various
Medium
Medium
High
Conversion
Conversion
Cataloguing
C20
Various
High
Cataloguing
70
70
300
3,090
732
16
Incl. serials
and
pamphlets
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History - Others
KCL
Languages &
Literatures
Glasgow
KCL
Nottingham
Nottingham
Oxford
19.25 metres
College Collection
History of King’s College London
& associated institutions, works
by notable KCL alumni
Store
1830-1890
English
1,630
Pre-1968
Adam Collection
20th C European & American
literature, art, culture & society,
incl. many small press
publications
Hallward Library
Finno-Ugric & African and Asian
languages and literatures
Hallward Library
General literature
2,300
1900-1970
English & major West
European
English, Danish, French,
German, Italian,
Romanian
1,105
C19-20-
4,550
8,000
Mostly
C20- ;
some
C18-19
1500-1900
Anglo-German
UCL
Classics
Birmingham
Worcester College
Early printed English &
continental literature, incl. rare
Spanish books, early dictionaries
Much rare or unique Wing
material
Anglo-German Collection
Translations of German literature
into English and vice-versa
9.74 metres
Ancient lang. & lit
Birmingham
500
346
C18-19
400
1914-1971
Ancient lang. & lit
3,700
1850-1971
Glasgow
Cat 2
1,800
Pre-1980
KCL
Enk Pamphlets
1,200
1830-1950
KCL
Secondary sources on classic &
patristics
600
1801-1900
17
585 English; 350 West
Europeans; 100 other
Roman; 70 non Roman
2/3 English; 1/3/West
European with some
other Roman and non
Roman
English, French,
German, Italian, Spanish
English, German, Latin,
Greek
English, German, Latin,
Greek
Dutch, English, German,
Latin
English, Greek, Latin
Incl.
pamphlets
Medium
Conversion
High
Conversion
Incl. copies
annotated in
ms. by their
authors;
serials
Incl.
pamphlets
High
Cataloguing
Medium
Conversion
Incl.
pamphlets
Medium
Conversion
High
Conversion
High
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
High
Conversion
Medium
Conversion
Pamphlets
Medium
Conversion
Pamphlets
Medium
Cataloguing
Pamphlets
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KCL
Leeds
Leeds
Nottingham
ULL
UCL
Comics
Dialects
English literature
NLS
Leeds
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Glasgow
KCL
KCL
Leeds
Newcastle
Classic material (open access)
Ancient history, archaeology,
Greek, Latin
Thompson Collection of classical
textbooks
Hallward library - languages &
literatures
Chichester Cathedral Collection
Contemporaneous editions of
classics in the English and other
languages
Early material candidate for
CURL Britain in Print
Strong Room Euclid
Pre-1700 editions of works by
Euclid, mostly from the Graves
collection
Comics
Dialect Collection
Jack Bequest collection
(incl. general works)
Gordon of Cairness collection,
Conference Centre
Aldroughty House Library
Cat 2
Mottram Collection
19C & 20C English & American
lit., with focus on Beat &
Concrete poetry, film &
underground movement. Much
small press
Skeat & Furnivall Collection
Secondary sources on English
literature, particularly Old
English lit. and the age of
Shakespeare
Silkin Collection
19th Century Novels Collections
1,000
11,500
2,490
4,500
3,535
1850-1980
C19-20
C19-20
120
2/3 C20- ;
1/3 c18-19
C17-18
163
Pre-1700
2,700
420
400
375
Greek, Latin
C20
Mostly English; some
West Europeans
English, others
Incl.
pamphlets
Medium
Medium
Conversion
Conversion
Medium
Medium
Conversion &
Cataloguing
Conversion
Medium
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
High
Low
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
English
C19-C20
English
Low
Cataloguing
500
1,240
10,000
C20
Pre-1980
1880-1990
English
Mostly English
English, French
Low
Medium
High
Cataloguing
Conversion
Cataloguing
1,000
1801-1920
English
Medium
Conversion
3,500
1,400
C19
English
High
High
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
18
Incl.
annotated
items in ms.
by their
authors,
journals &
LPs
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Nottingham
Woodward Collection
(Bacon versus Shakespeare)
Nottingham
Hallward Library
Nottingham
Cambridge Shakespeare
collection
Oxford
Harding A 1883Bodleian, Rare Books section
Incl. French lit.
Johnson novels in part
Bodleian, Rare Books section
Max Beerbohm Collection
Merton College
Works by and relating to English
writer/caricaturist
Brenchley Collection
Merton College
Works by and relating to T.S.
Eliot
Harding B
Bodleian, Rare Books section
Ballads, single sheets,
ephemera
Harding C 3827Bodleian, Rare Books section
Songbooks & verse
Harding H 2212Bodleian, Rare Books section
French song books & verse
Johnson songbooks
Bodleian, Rare Books section
Song books & verse
Tyson
Bodleian, Rare Books section
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
328
22,105
415
1,734
118
C19- ;
some pre1800
17,500
C20- ;
4,500 C19
and a few
C18
C18-20;
Mostly
C19
C19
English
C19-20
High
Conversion
Mostly English, some
West European
Incl.
pamphlets
High
Conversion
Mostly English
Incl.
pamphlets
High
Cataloguing
English & French
High
Cataloguing
Mainly English
High
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
High
Conversion
630
Mainly English
530
Mainly English
Incl. offprints
1,201
C17-19
Mainly English
Street
literature
High
Cataloguing
193
C18-19
Mainly English
Street
literature
High
Cataloguing
21
C17-19
French
Street
literature
High
Cataloguing
362
C18-20
Mainly English
Street
literature
High
Cataloguing
271
C17-19
Mainly English
Verse
High
Cataloguing
19
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ULL
ULL
Warwick
Esperanto
Germanic
literatures
NLS
Oxford
KCL
KCL
Nottingham
Italian literature
KCL
UCL
UCL
Song books & verse
Bacon Society
Mainly works by Francis Bacon
& other authors of the late C1617
(Early material candidate for
CURL Britain in Print)
Austin Dobson Collection
Works of the poet and critic H
Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
Poetry Collection
British & American modern
poetry – Rare primary editions
Auld Esperanto Collection
Gregor Collection
Bodleian Library
German Garside Collection
German lit. with focus on novel;
many items not widely available
in UK
Kantorowicz Collection
German lit. with focus on novel,
Judaica & German history
Hallward Library
Richardson Collection
Secondary sources for medieval
and Renaissance Italian lit. with
an emphasis on Dante
Strong Room DC
Editions of Castiglione’s Il
Cortegiano, leading
Renaissance text
Piranesi Collection
Works by Giovanni Battista
Piranesi
1,500
C15-
3,500
1860-1921
1960s
100
Incl.
pamphlets
High
Cataloguing &
Conversion
Mostly English
Medium
Cataloguing
English
Medium
Conversion
High
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
4,000
1,000
C20
1,500
1801-1930
German
High
Cataloguing
300
1801-1930
German
Medium
Cataloguing
7,000
5,370
C20- ;
1,520 C19
& a few
C18
1850-1950
200 English; 6,800
Western European
High
Conversion
Italian, French, English
Medium
Cataloguing
Various
High
Conversion
High
Conversion
1,400
103
13
20
Esperanto
Incl. serials
Incl. serials
Incl.
pamphlets
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Juvenile
literature
Oxford
Linguistics
Leeds
Nottingham
Dante Collection
Material on Dante Alighieri, his
works, times etc.
68.66 metres
Rosenthal
Bodleian rare Books section
Continental juvenile literature
Linguistics
Hallward Library
Glasgow
Modern languages
Glasgow
Cat 2
UCL
Modern
languages
Leeds
Leeds
French literature
Leeds
Roth Collection
(Mainly Judaica)
Language Teaching Centre
(Departmental library)
Oxford
Oriental Lang.
Cambridge
Cambridge
Glasgow
Glasgow
Chinese language material
Japanese-Korean language
material
Japanese books of the Meiji
period
Pressmarked
Bourgeois
Leeds
Leeds
Arabic/Hebrew/ Judaica
Chinese / Japanese
Cambridge
2,600
300
C16-
C18-19
French, Dutch &
German
6,500
Mostly
C20- ;
some C19
C20
4,830
Pre-1980
2/3 English; 1/3 West
European with a few
non-Roman
Mainly French &
German
Mainly Hispanic and
Italian
Western European
languages
960
2,195
32,000
C19-20
1,900
22,000
Mainly
C19
Mainly
C20
1970-
130 languages
32,000
35,000
C19C19-
Japanese, Korean
150,000
C19
Japanese
450
540
2,000
9,000
9,500
21
Pre-1968
Pre-1926
Incl.
pamphlets
Pamphlets
Incl. minority European
languages
8,000 Chinese (many in
script) & 1,500
High
Conversion
High
Cataloguing
High
Medium
Cataloguing
Conversion
Medium
Conversion
Medium
Conversion
Medium
Conversion
High
Cataloguing
High
Cataloguing
Incl. 16,000
audio &
video
cassettes
and audio
CD/CD
ROMs
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Microform
Cataloguing
Medium
High
Conversion
Cataloguing
High
High
Conversion
Conversion
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Japanese
Portuguese
literature
Leeds
KCL
Romance
literatures
Nottingham
Scottish
literature
Aberdeen
Slavonic lang.
and lit.
BL
Glasgow
Leeds
Translation
Walter Scott – Collection of
Bernard Lloyd (Scott’s writings,
Scottish history & culture)
Slavonic and East European
lang. & lit.
250
400
C19-20
1900-1970
19,970
Mostly
C20- ;
5,000 C19
and 100
C18
C18-20
2,000 English; 17,970
Western European
C18-20
Albanian, Belarussian,
Bulgarian, Czech/
Slovak, Estonian, FinnoUgric, Hungarian,
Latvian, Lithuanian,
Lusatian, Moldavian,
Polish, Romanian,
Russian, Ukrainian, ExYugoslav
Russian, Czech, Polish
Incl. substantial holdings
in Bulgarian & Czech
1,529
35,000
3,700
7,500
Leeds
Slavonic lang. & lit.
Slavonic, incl. substantial
holdings in Bulgarian and Czech
Leeds Russian Archive
Nottingham
Hallward Library
9,500
NLS
Mary Stewart Collection
Fiction in translation
Ellershaw Collection
Collection of translations of
modern English texts into
classical languages
Hallward Library
Durham
West European
languages
Chinese script materials
Portuguese Collection
19C & 20C Portuguese &
Lusophone lit. & history
Hallward Library
Nottingham
5,000
420
63
4,480
22
Pre-1979
Mainly
C20
Mainly
C20
Mostly
C20- ;
some C19
C20
Portuguese
Incl.
pamphlets
Mostly English; modern
European
Serials,
microfilms of
books to
replace wardestroyed
items, official
publications
500 English; 50 West
Europeans; 1,550 other
Roman; 7,400 nonRoman
Various
High
High
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
High
Conversion
High
Cataloguing
High
High
Conversion
Conversion
High
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
Cataloguing
C19-20
Mostly
C20- ;
Conversion
3,000 English, 1,200
Western European, 100
Incl.
pamphlets
Medium
Conversion
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Music
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
BL
BL
BL
BL
BL
BL
Edinburgh
Spence collection, GY music,
departmental collection
Sheet music from legal deposit
period; in 228 vols.
Ashdown Collection
Sheet music from Ashdown
publishers.
Blackpool Collection
Performance material from
Blackpool Tower.
Knaster & Juynboll Collections
Pictorial title pages from sheet
music.
Parkinson Collection
Antiquarian sheet music.
Secondary Instrumental
Collection - Sheet music
Union Catalogue of Music
(UCM)
Incl. popular music
Only music coll. In world
dedicated to ILL
Reid Library
Glasgow
324
some
C18-19
C19
other Roman, 180 non
Roman
Sheet music
1,374
C18-19
2,000
C19-20
Range of modern
European languages
English
2,000
C20
400
2,000
64,500
Medium
Cataloguing
Sheet music
High
Cataloguing
Sheet music
Medium
Cataloguing
English
Sheet music
Medium
Cataloguing
C19-20
Mainly English
Sheet music
title pages
High
Cataloguing
ca. 18001850
C19 - 20
Mainly English
Sheet music
High
Cataloguing
UK legal deposit
material
Sheet music
Low
Cataloguing
Sheet music
high
Conversion
Incl. Sheet
music &
serials
Includes
scores?
Sheet music
High
Conversion
High
Conversion
Medium
Conversion
Incl. Sheet
music?
LP records
LP records
LPs & sheet
music
Mainly sheet
music
High
Cataloguing
Low
High
Medium
Cataloguing
Conversion
Cataloguing /
conversion
Conversion
175,000
35,000
2,400
500
1550-
Pre-1979
Glasgow
St. A.
Glasgow
Whittaker
2,500
Mainly
post-1979
C20?
Glasgow
Glasgow
KCL
Unclassified LPs
Cat 2
Classical music
700
2,000
5,500
C20
Pre-1980
1850-1980
Leeds
Music
6,080
23
All
English, French,
German & Italian
High
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NLS
Institute of Popular Music
Record Collection
Music Listening Library (classical
music)
Main music card catalogue
NLS
Supplementary music catalogue
NLS
NLS/BCM catalogue
NLS
Sound recordings
NLS
NLS
Music – Microfilms
Music (backlog and Boxed
music)
Newcastle
Newcastle
Vernon Collection
Scores to be catalogued
analytically
Nottingham
Music Library - Books
Nottingham
Music Library - Scores
Oxford
Bodleian
5,000 pre-1800, 100,000 C19,
190,000 C20
Unique items & in-depth
coverage; classical and popular
Bodleian
Music Faculty Library
20-30% for research, quite a lot
not held at Bodleian
Liverpool
Liverpool
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Tyson
Bodleian, Rare Books section
14,000
1970-
Mostly English
3,000
1970-
Mostly English
100,000
Pre-1991
Various
150,000
Pre-1901
English
30,000
1957-1992
80
55,000
40 vols
2,000 vols.
C18-C19
C19-C20
English
3,320
Mostly
C20-
2,500
1/3 C19;
2/3 C20-
Mostly English, some
West European and non
Roman
Half English, half West
European with a few non
Roman
Music
records
Music
records
Printed
music
Printed
music
Printed
music
Sound
recordings
Incl. 5,000
Sheet
music?
Sheet music
Sheet music
High
Conversion
Medium to
low
Cataloguing
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Cataloguing
Medium
Medium
Conversion
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
Sheet music
High
Conversion
295,000
1550-1991
Sheet music
High
Conversion
160,000
21,780
1550-1991
1900- ;
some
1750s
items
Sheet music
3,200CDs,
the
remainder
sheet music
and books
Verse
High
Medium
Cataloguing
Conversion
High
Cataloguing
271
24
C17-19
Mainly English
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Philosophy
Southampton
Southampton
Song books & verse
Music Scores
Del Mar Collection
Recorded classical music
ULL
Music collection
ULL
Music collection – Research
collections Scores
Store
Hallward Library
Glasgow
Nottingham
UCL
Religion /
Theology
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
BL
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow
Manchester
Dawes Hicks Collection
Pre-1850 philosophy books
3.95 metres
Christ’s College (Theology &
divinity)
Rabbinic’s library of Jewish
convert to Christianity
Edward Tottenham Collection
Books on theology and sermons
New College, Open access
collection (Theology, philosophy,
history)
New College, Strong Room 1
New College, Strong Room 2
New College, Storage area
Trinity College, SCD
Eadie, SCD
Cat 2
Houedard (dom Silvester) book
collection
Benedictine monk (1924-1992);
theology, liturgy, eastern
religion, philosophy, culture
2,000
35,000
500
1800-1980
1920-1950
C19-
Mainly English, some
Western European
?
900
9,700
Sheet music
5K 78 rpm
recordings,
30K vinyl
Sheet music
High
High
Conversion
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
Sheet music
High
Cataloguing
Medium
Medium
Conversion
Conversion
High
Cataloguing
Mainly English
Mostly English; some
Western European
130
Pre-1968
Mostly
C20-;
some
C18-19
Pre-1850
150
C17-C19
Medium
Cataloguing
800
C17-19
English, Latin, German,
Hebrew
1/3 Hebrew
High
Conversion
700
C18-19
English
Low
Cataloguing
15,000
1800-
All
Incl. Serials
Low
Conversion
50,000
50,000
30,000
1,200
1550147016001820-1973
+ some
earlier
1821-1877
Pre-1980
C20
All
All
All
Mainly English
Incl. Serials
Incl. Serials
Incl. Serials
High
High
High
High
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
High
High
Conversion
Conversion
2,000
550
2,000
25
Incl.
pamphlets
Mainly English
Mainly English
Incl. Serials
curl
Consortium of University Research Libraries
Research Libraries of the British Isles in co-operation
NLS
NLS
NLS
Nottingham
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
UCL
ULL
(Buddhism, Tibet), literature
Fort Augustus (St Benedict’s
Abbey) Collection
Oban Cathedral Collection
Urquart Collection (Episcopal
Church of Scotland Theological
coll.)
Oakham Parish Library
Marlborough Vicars
Bodleian Rare Books section
Theology
Nicholson Collection
Christ Church College
Theology
Allestree Library
Christ Church College
Theology
Personal library strong in
theology
Wake Collection
College
History of English & French
churches, theology ; incl. law
books
Harris Manchester College
Theology collection in Tate
library
Worcester College
Early theological books
Franciscan Society Collection
Library of the British Society for
Franciscan Studies
4.82 metres
Porteus Library
Library of Beilby Porteus, Bishop
of London – Ecclesiastical affairs
etc.
6,839
129
190
71
312
327
Pre-1801
Cataloguing
C16-20
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Chiefly
pre-1700
C16-18
Western European
High
Conversion
Mainly Latin
High
Cataloguing
15001800
Chiefly Latin and
English, but various
other languages
Chiefly Latin and
English, but various
other languages
Cataloguing
Chiefly Latin and
English, but various
other languages
Cataloguing
1,200
C16-C17
2,600
1500-1750
Cataloguing
6,700
8,000
189
4,000
26
Conversion
1500-1900
Latin, Greek, Hebrew,
English, French,
Spanish
Mainly
C19
C17-19
Mainly English, some
Western European
Incl.
pamphlets
High
Conversion
Medium
Conversion?
High
Conversion &
cataloguing
curl
Consortium of University Research Libraries
Research Libraries of the British Isles in co-operation
Warwick
Augustine
church
Biblical studies
NLS
Oxford
ULL
Catholicism
Hymnology
NLS
Oxford
Non-conformism
Glasgow
Glasgow
Newcastle
Oxford
Quakers
Rosicrucianism
Durham
Southampton
Zoroastrian
Religion
Manchester
Theatre / Drama
Nottingham
Oxford
Early material candidate for
CURL Britain in Print
Gillian Rose collection
Reflecting her theological,
philosophical and Jewish
interests
Augustine Church collection
Morris Collection
Christ Church College
Study of Bible in original tongues
Ethel M. Wood Biblical
Collection
English and American bibles and
books on biblical studies (45 are
pre-1640)
Early material candidate for
CURL Britain in Print
Catholic Truth Society
Catholic Apostolic Church,
Bodleian, Rare Books section
Mearns, SCD
Trinity/Div DL/Annex
Cathedral Library
Regents Park College
Sunderland Friends’ Library
Rosicrucian books – from the
Crotona Fellowship of the
Rosicrucian Order
Pavri Collection
Zoroastrian religion and history,
Parsi community, Indian history
and geography
40 shelves
Willatt Collection
Mostly C20
Harding D 2502-
2,500
C19-20
Mainly English, French,
German, Hebrew
30
Incl.
Pamphlets &
serials
High (except
for some
duplicate UG
texts )
Incl. serials
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
715
1500-1800
Languages of the Middle
East
350
C15-
English & Western
European
Medium
Cataloguing
432
205
C19-20
Chiefly English
High
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Pre-1922
Pre-1973
C17-C19
C19-20
Mainly English
Mainly English
English, Latin
Mainly English, some
European, Indian &
African
High
High
Low
High
C16-20
Latin, English
Mid-20C
English, some German;
Avestan/Pahlavi
C19-20 -
English
C17-19
Mainly English
2,000
9,500
550
40,000
600
120
800
1,156
27
Cataloguing
Incl.
pamphlets
Medium
Conversion
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Conversion (recatalogued with
item in hand)
Conversion?
Conversion
Conversion
(rough list)
Pamphlets &
Serials incl.
High
Cataloguing
High
Cataloguing
curl
Consortium of University Research Libraries
Research Libraries of the British Isles in co-operation
Oxford
Bodleian, Rare Books section
Worcester College
Plays printed before 1750
1,000
28
1500-1750
English
High
Conversion
curl
Consortium of University Research Libraries
Research Libraries of the British Isles in co-operation
Social Sciences
Subjects
Social Sciences
– Cross-subject
Institutions
Named Collections /
Descriptions
Number of
items (ca.)
Date
range
Languages
Birmingham
Main Library
15,800
1914-71
English
Birmingham
Glasgow
Main Library
American University Publications
47,000
8,000
C19-20
English
English
Glasgow
Store
Pre-1968
English
Leeds
Social sciences
Leeds
Leeds
Nottingham
Quail Collection (Anarchism)
Lord Boyle Collection (mainly
education & political affairs)
R Microforms
Social history, general elections,
some international official
publications
R collection
Unemployment; bridges, canals
and roads in Scotland 17821841; lithographic artists’,
designers’, engravers’ and
process workers’ trade-unions
1885-1935
Cowen Collection (social,
economic, political with some lit.)
Hallward Library
Oxford
Nuffield College
LSE
LSE
Newcastle
200
78,000
1940s1950s
Chiefly English with
some German
63
1890s1930s
English
C19
Mainly English
Mostly
C20- ;
some C19
C20
Mostly English; some
Western European and
non Roman
English
6,500
29
Pamphlets
(high %)
Medium
Conversion
Conversion
Medium
Conversion
High
Conversion
High
Medium
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Pamphlets
450
26,700
Research
Importance
Inc. 210
political
manifestos /
papers of
political
parties
360
1,500
150
Format
(other than
books)
Pamphlets
Conversion or
cataloguing?
Conversion
Microforms
Conversion
Conversion
Incl.
pamphlets
Pamphlets
High
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
Conversion
curl
Consortium of University Research Libraries
Research Libraries of the British Isles in co-operation
Accountancy
Economics
NLS
Oxford
Education
Birmingham
Birmingham
Politics, economics, sociology
Nuffield College
Reserve/Special Collections
Political economy, labour history,
Chartism, William Cobbett,
Robert Owen, William Morris etc.
Family Welfare Association
Library
Social, political and economic
history
ICAS (Antiquarian Collection)
Social Studies Libraries
Incl. 500 series records
Economics & statistics
Some unique material
Education Library
Education Library
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Glasgow
Liverpool
Moray House
St. A. Dewey
Cat 2
Education History Collection
ULL
Quick Memorial Library
Library of the Education Guild
Early material candidate for
CURL Britain in Print
Hallward Library
Oxford
ULL
Geography
Nottingham
Law
Aberdeen
Birmingham
Edinburgh
Glasgow
De Zulueta pamphlet collection
(Roman & Civil law)
Harding Law Library
Cat 2
Advocates’ Manuscripts
Law Special Collection
Nottingham
Law Library – serials /
C18-19
5,000
C19-20
1,000
9,250
1494-1930
C20;
some pre1900
English, western
European
5,500
19,200
1914-1990
1850-1990
English
English
10,000
18,000
750
600
1850C20
Pre-1980
1930-
All
1,000
15711890s
Mainly English
Incl. & early
school text
books
8,850
Mostly
C20- ;
some
C19C
19201940s
1850-1971
1600Pre-1968
Mostly English; some
Western European and
non Roman
English, Italian, German,
French
Mainly English
All
900
6,000
25,000
3,000
Pressmarked
Glasgow
NLS
Nottingham
3,000
350
1,500
337
358
30
Conversion
Incl.
pamphlets
High
Cataloguing
Pamphlets
Incl. AV
materials
Incl. serials
Medium
Medium
Conversion
Conversion
High
Low
Medium
High to
Medium
High
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Cataloguing
Incl. maps
and
pamphlets
Medium
Conversion
Pamphlets &
off-prints
Medium
Conversion
Low
High
Medium
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Medium
Medium
Conversion
Cataloguing
Conversion
Medium
Conversion
English
English
Incl. serials
Pre-1980
Manuscripts
120 pre1700;
C18C20-
Conversion
Mainly English, with
some Western European
Conversion
curl
Consortium of University Research Libraries
Research Libraries of the British Isles in co-operation
Nigeria
SAS
USA
SAS
Politics
Nottingham
analyticals
Institute of Advanced Legal
Studies
Kahn-Freund bequest
Institute of Advanced Legal
Studies
FCO collections of European
and US law
Institute of Advanced Legal
Studies
Max Planck Institute gift of
African gazetted legislation
Institute of Advanced Legal
Studies
Privy Council cases
Legislation from various
Commonwealth countries
Institute of Advanced Legal
Studies
Association of Average
Adjusters Library
Institute of Advanced Legal
Studies
Giles bequest
Incl. commercial law
Institute of Advanced Legal
Studies
Richardson Collection of
Nigerian legislation
Institute of Advanced Legal
Studies
US law reports and legislation
Hallward Library
Sociology
Glasgow
Cat 2
1,200
Mostly
C20- ;
some C19
Pre-1980
KCL
ISTD Collection
Former library of the Institute for
the Study and Treatment of
Delinquency (criminology,
sociology, criminal psychology,
social history)
2,000
1850-1980
SAS
SAS
Africa
SAS
Commonwealth
SAS
Commonwealth
SAS
Maritime Law
SAS
SAS
239
C19-C20
English, German
Medium
Cataloguing
C19-early
C20
English, French, Italian,
German, Swedish,
Spanish
High
Cataloguing
126
C20
Mainly English & French,
some other languages
Medium
Cataloguing
73
C19
English
C18- early
C20
Mostly
C17 &
C18;
some C19
Some
C17-C19;
mostly c19
& C20
1970-80
English
Medium
Cataloguing
Latin; English
High
Cataloguing
C19 &
C20
English
Mostly English; some
Western European and
non Roman
English
English
1,030
165
109
135
188
168
6,520
31
Cataloguing
English, German, Latin
Cataloguing
English
High
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Incl.
pamphlets
High
Conversion
Medium
Conversion
Medium
Cataloguing
curl
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Children
NLS
Newcastle
Social credit Collection
Christine Cooper Collection
(child abuse, bereavement in
childhood etc.)
600
1,400
32
2nd half of
C20
English
Medium
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
curl
Consortium of University Research Libraries
Research Libraries of the British Isles in co-operation
Science & Technology
Subjects
Science &
Technology –
Cross-subject
Institutions
Named Collections /
Descriptions
BL
Maurice Ernst Collection
Early printed material on
longevity and old age
BL
Edinburgh
Glasgow
KCL
Slavonic Union Catalogue /
Cyrillic Book Catalogue
Scientific material
Historical science collection
Rare scientific works
Incl. works of Thomas Wright of
Durham
Darwin
Cat 2
Guy’s Historical Collection
KCL
St Thomas’s Historical Collection
KCL
Wheatstone Collection
Acoustics, electricity,
photography, telegraphy (many
items untraceable elsewhere,
many with ms. Annotations)
University Museum (Hope
Library)
Geology, palaeontology and
zoology
Worcester College
Early printed works on
mathematics, Astronomy,
medicine, natural history &
botany
Galton Laboratory
Eugenics, biology, statistics etc.
26 metres
Durham
Oxford
Oxford
UCL
Number of
items (ca.)
Date
range
Languages
Format
(other than
books)
1,000
24,000
500
1900Pre-1980
1490-1900
6,500
1490-1900
800
1801-1870
300
C20
988
Cyrillic languages
Conversion or
cataloguing?
Low
Cataloguing
Medium
Conversion
C16-20
5,000
7,800
10,000
1,000
33
To 1989
Research
Importance
1500-1800
C19-20
Conversion?
All
Incl. serials
Incl. journals
Low
High
High
Conversion
Conversion
Cataloguing
English, French,
German, Greek, Italian,
Latin
English, French,
German, Greek, Italian,
Latin
English, French,
German, Italian
Incl. journals
High
Conversion
Pamphlets
High
Conversion
Conversion
English, Latin
High
Conversion
High
Cataloguing
curl
Consortium of University Research Libraries
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Agriculture
Aberdeen
Collection of Prof. John Raeburn
(incl. tropical agriculture)
2,000
C20
Largely English
Imperial
Wye College Collection (incl.
Horticulture)
1,200
1543-1918
Mostly English, some
German, French, Latin
Imperial
Cheveley Collection (Wye
College)
Incl. Textbooks
1,050
1534-1886
Nottingham
Agriculture Special Collection
486
C1700(mainly
C18-C19)
Oxford
Plant Sciences Library
100,000 forestry; also botany
and agriculture
121,000
Southampton
KCL
Poultry breeds &
husbandry
Astronomy
Imperial
Perkins Agricultural Library
Botany, pharmacology &
pharmacopoeias
Punnett Collection
Manchester
Marshall Library
Biological
sciences
Southampton
Natural history, botany, zoology,
agriculture
Earth sciences
Imperial
Engineering
Leeds
Birmingham
Birmingham
Earth Science Engineering
series
Mainly items in series
Science & engineering
Science & engineering
Botany
34
Medium
Cataloguing
High
Cataloguing
Mostly English, some
European, Latin
High
Cataloguing
Mostly English
Medium
Conversion
High
Conversion &
cataloguing
High
Medium
Conversion
Cataloguing
High
Cataloguing
Medium
Cataloguing
High
Cataloguing
Medium
Low
Low
Cataloguing
Conversion
2,000
250
Mainly
post 1850;
2,000 rare
books,
1500-1850
1600-1900
1801-1950
170
1572-1943
Mostly English, some
European, Latin
1,000
13,000
C18C-C20
(mostly
C19)
C20
Mainly English with
some French, German,
Spanish etc.
English
1,680
7,700
9,240
C20
1914-1971
1914-1971
Mainly English
Mainly English
Booklets,
pamphlets,
papers,
reprints
Incl.
Pamphlets &
periodicals
Incl. 3,000
serials and
1,000 maps
English
English, German, Latin
Incl.
pamphlets
Incl. Reports
from
Observatorie
s worldwide
60+ shelves
Incl.
pamphlets
Pamphlets
curl
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Chemical
engineering
Genetics
Birmingham
Geography
Glasgow
NLS
NLS
Oxford
KCL
Southampton
Vulcanology
UCL
Environmental
sciences
Ecology
Imperial
Life Sciences
Marine Science
Glasgow
Southampton
Mathematics
Newcastle
Oxford
UCL
UCL
Medicine
Aberdeen
Birmingham
Birmingham
Garner Chemical Engineering
Library
Ruggles, Gates Collection
2,500
1914-1971
Mainly English
2,000
1850-1950
English
Cat 2 (geography & geology)
Atlases, various coll.
Bartholomew Library
Geography (Departmental
library)
Incl. personal reprint collection of
ca. 1-2K items of Marjorie
Sweeting with many unique
Chinese reprints
School textbooks (2/3
Geography, the rest Social
Studies)
Strong Room Johnston Lavis
Pre-1700 books on vulcanology
from the Library of H. J.
Johnston Lavis
Environmental Reports
7,050
65
900
40,000
Zoology (Departmental library)
At Elton Library
Pre-1980
Mainly English
2,000
103
2,500
National Oceanographic Library
pre-85)
Wallis Collection
History of mathematics and of
mathematics education
Strong Room LMS Sources
Pre-1700 London Mathematical
Society books
LMS Sources
Pre-1850 mathematics books
from
London
Mathematical
Society Library
6 metres
Conference Centre (Sir
Alexander Greig Anderson
Collection)
Barnes Library
Barnes Library
60,000
1800-
Mostly English
11,000
75,000
Pre-1968
1850-1984
Mainly English
Mainly English, some
European
English
C20
High
Cataloguing
Medium
Conversion
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Conversion
Low
Conversion
High
Conversion
Incl.
Pamphlets
Offprints
High
Conversion
Incl. reports
& pamphlets
Conversion
High
High
Conversion
Conversion
Low
Cataloguing
8
Pre-1700
High
Conversion
228
Pre-1850
High
Cataloguing
650
C19-C20
English
Low
Cataloguing
1914-1971
1850-1971
Mainly English
Mainly English
Low
Low
Conversion
Conversion
4,950
29,400
35
Pre-1700
English
Conversion
Incl. maps
Incl.
pamphlets
(10,000),
slides and
photographs
English
C20
4,000
Incl.
pamphlets
Low
Pamphlets
curl
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Bristol
History of medicine collections
8,132
Bristol
History of medicine
2,562
Bristol
Parry Library
709
Bristol
Mineral Waters & Spas Coll.
285
Durham
Glasgow
KCL
Kellett Collection
Cat 2
Medical material on open access
(St Thomas’s campus)
Medical material on open access
(Denmark Hill campus)
St Mary’s Hospital Collection
(works by past & present staff of
Hospital & Medical School)
Charing Cross Collection (works
by individuals connected with
Hospital & associated Medical
School)
Clarke Medical Collection
Newcastle
Freddie Miller Collection
Medical incl. 11 large boxes of
offprints & other papers re.
Tuberculosis
Pulmonary
diseases,
tuberculosis
Sanatoria
Imperial
NHLI Historical Collection (stack
5)
Imperial
Veterinary
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Nottingham
NHLI Brompton Hospital authors
(stack 6)
Easter Bush
Vet College
Mellish Collection
KCL
Dendy Collection
UCL
Strong Room HNHS
KCL
Imperial
Imperial
Newcastle
Meteorology
Natural
Sciences
Conversion
Pamphlets &
off-prints
50
1,800
1,100
C18-19;
108 pre1701
25 pre1701
C15-20
Pre-1980
1901-1980
English
English
Medium
Medium
Conversion?
Conversion
Cataloguing
1,000
1901-1980
English
Medium
Cataloguing
375
C19-
Mostly English, other
European
Incl.
pamphlets
Medium
Cataloguing
250
C19-
Mostly English
Incl.
pamphlets
Medium
Cataloguing
460
C16-C19
English, Latin
High
2,500
C19-C20
English
Almost 50%
pamphlets
Incl. offprints &
other papers
Medium
Conversion
(short-title list)
Cataloguing
400
1830-C20
Mostly English
Incl.
pamphlets
Medium
Cataloguing
80
1899-1950
English
Medium
Cataloguing
5,000
750
430
19001800-2000
C19-
All
Mainly English
Mainly English, some
West European
Incl.
pamphlets
Incl. serials
High
High
High
Conversion
Cataloguing
Conversion
100
1850-1920
English
Medium
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
30
36
C18-10 &
pre-1701
C19
Pre-1700
Incl. serials
& officials
publications
curl
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UCL
Psychology
Oxford
Physics
Aberdeen
Science
Glasgow
Textile
Zoology
Glasgow
Leeds
Imperial
KCL
Oxford
Ornithology
Oxford
Pre-1700 books from the Herts.
Natural History Society Library
Herts Natural History Society
Collection
Focus on Herts. Includes rare
material
66.16 metres
Experimental psychology
(Departmental library)
Psychology, psychiatry,
statistics, artificial intelligence
NatPhil DL
(former natural philosophy class
library)
American University Publications
2,514
3,000
Incl. serials
1900-1990
Cataloguing?
Medium
Conversion
Medium to
low
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
Medium
Medium
High
Conversion
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
431
C19-20
Largely English
3,000
C19-20
English
Pre-1979
Mainly English
1850-1900
English, German
1801-1900
Incl.
pamphlets
Offprints
High
Conversion
(typed list)
Conversion
Offprints
High
Conversion
Sciences
Textile technology
Huxley Collection items (stack
23)
Stebbing Collection
15,900
1,200
120
Zoology (Departmental library)
At Main Library
Zoology (Departmental library)
At Alexander Library
37,000
1900-
English, French,
German
Mostly English
90,000
1700-
Mostly English
1,000
37
Medium
Pamphlets
(high %)
curl
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Area / Local Studies Collections
Subjects
Institutions
African Studies
Manchester
Belgian
ULL
Celtic
Aberdeen
Commonwealth
UCL
Cambridge
Commonwealth
SAS
SAS
SAS
SAS
SAS
Named Collections /
Descriptions
Number of
items (ca.)
International African Institute
Collection
Societies, cultures, linguistics,
demography
Some offprints not widely
available
Belgian Library
Former Library of the Belgian
Institute
Belgian art, history and literature
Celtic class library –
lang/lit/history (residue)
Celtic Library of Whitley Stokes
Royal Commonwealth Society
collection
38
Languages
Format
(other than
books)
Offprints
Research
Importance
Conversion or
cataloguing?
3,000
1930searly
1970s
5,000
C19-20
French and Flemish
Medium
Conversion
300
C19-20
English; Celtic
Low
Conversion
High
C17- 1819-20
Incl. non Roman
languages
Conversion
Conversion
1940-1970
English
Medium
Cataloguing
400
1941-1979
English
Medium
Cataloguing
500
1941-1979
English
Medium
Cataloguing
160
1961-1979
English
Medium
Cataloguing
500
1991-1999
English
3,500
40,000
2,300
30,000
120
Institute of Commonwealth
Studies
Trevor Reese bequest
History
Institute of Commonwealth
Studies
David Lowenthal bequest
Institute of Commonwealth
Studies
Baruch Hirson bequest
Institute of Commonwealth
Studies
Martin Bailey bequest
Institute of Commonwealth
Studies
Commonwealth Secretariat
Date
range
Conversion
Books
Serials
Pamphlets
Cataloguing
curl
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Africa
SAS
Southern Africa
SAS
Africa, India,
Papua New
Guinea
East Midlands
(England)
SAS
Nottingham
East Midlands Collection
Egyptology
UCL
Jewish studies
Southampton
Egyptology Glass Case
Rare material
9 metres
Sherman Collection
UCL
UCL
UCL
UCL
Latin American
Studies
Glasgow
Oxford
SAS
Institute of Commonwealth
Studies
United Africa Company
collection
History & ethnography
Institute of Commonwealth
Studies
Mary Benson bequest
History & social sciences
Institute of Commonwealth
Studies collections
620
1790-1970
English
High
Cataloguing
140
1950-1970
English
Medium
Cataloguing
100
1990s
English
10,400
Mostly
C19-
English
342
2,000
Gaster Collection
Library of Moses Gaster
1.9 metre
Strong Room Mocatta
Rare books re. Jewish religion
and history
Mocatta Library
Especially Anglo-Jewish history,
theology, history, language etc.
124.24 metres
Montefiore Collection
Library of Sir Joseph Montefiore
7.81
Latin American
Cataloguing
Incl.
pamphlets &
maps
High
Conversion
Medium
Conversion
Medium
(duplicates
from UCL, to
support
teaching)
High
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
High
Conversion
High
Cataloguing
English & Spanish;
some Portuguese
Medium
Conversion
Mainly pamphlets, but
also monographs,
serials and microfilms
Spanish, Portuguese
High
Conversion
Medium
Cataloguing
C17-19
1920-
Yiddish
C19-20
818
4,721
C17-
297
C19-
1,300
Latin American Centre
Mainly history, politics,
economics
Institute of Latin American
628
39
1935-
Incl. Hebrew
Incl. serials
and
pamphlets
Videotapes
Cataloguing
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Research Libraries of the British Isles in co-operation
Middle East
Durham
Oxford
North East
(England)
Oriental studies
Durham
Durham
Durham
Durham
Durham
Oxford
Oxford
Chinese
Oxford
Japanese
Oxford
Refugee
Oxford
Studies
Library of taped films and
documentaries
Middle east Documentation Unit
(some documents from 1970-80)
Middle East Centre
(Departmental library)
Large format local history
(special collections)
Oriental Collections, Special
Collections
Rare books
Travel lit.
Abbas Hilmi II pamphlets
Hawley Collection
Modern Arab subjects
Oriental Modern Collections
Bodleian – Oriental collections
Mainly humanities: language,
literature, theology, history,
culture
Many rare and unique titles
present
and various
8,000
1960s-
6,050
C18-
English, Arabic, Persian,
Turkish, Hebrew, French
English, Arabic, Persian,
Ottoman
High
Conversion
Cataloguing
1,000
Conversion
10,150
87,000
C19-20
1470-1990
English, Arabic
English, Arabic
Various
Wide range of oriental
languages. Particularly
strong on Hebrew titles
(17,000), Chinese
(30,000), Turkish
(10,600), Armenian &
Georgian (13,500)
16,000 Western
languages, 3,000
oriental languages
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
Conversion
Medium
Conversion
19,000
Mainly
C19-20
20,000
1900-
Chinese
Medium
Conversion
Mid C17Mid C19
Japanese
High
Conversion
1980-
Incl. much grey literature
High
Conversion
490
25,000
40
Incl. serials
in Arabic
(200),
pamphlets
(5,000),
books in
Persian
(650) and in
Ottoman
(200)
600
300
600
Bodleian – Oriental Institute
Library
Humanities-related Oriental
studies
Bodleian Chinese Studies
Library
Bodleian Japanese Library
Nipponica collection of early
printed books
Refugee Studies Library
Conversion
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Consortium of University Research Libraries
Research Libraries of the British Isles in co-operation
Studies
Russian & East
European
Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham
Glasgow
Glasgow
Liverpool
LSE
NLS
Scottish
studies
UCL
Edinburgh
Aberdeen
NLS
UCL
South Asia
Oxford
Welsh studies
Women studies
NLW
Southampton
Southampton
Held at European Research
Centre
Held at European Research
Centre
Held at European Research
Centre
Sheaf
7,500
C20
Russian & other
Slavonic languages
Russian & other
Slavonic languages
Russian & other
Slavonic languages
Mainly Russian &
English
Russian & English
Russian
Pamphlets
2,000
C20
500
C20
1920s1970s
Russian
Incl. 3
folders of
official
publications
C20
Principally Russian
1750-
Russian, East European
English, Gaelic
C19-20
Largely English
Pre-1987
C17-
Various
English, Gaelic
26,100
1801-1970
South Asian vernacular
items (17,500),
European languages
items (8,600)
275
1450-1837
Welsh
English
50
1713-1889
English
15,000
SS card catalogue
Russian Collection (mainly
language & literature plus some
social sciences)
Russian Collection
Broad range of subjects
3,000
1,000
30,000
John & Ljubica Erickson
collection
Soviet politics & government
SSEES material
Scotland/ethnology
3,000
61,028
10,000
Transportation collection
(Scottish railways & transport)
Bibliography of Scotland
Gaelic Society of London
Scottish history and Scots Gaelic
language
22.2 metres
Bodleian, Indian Institute Library
South Asian arts & humanities,
social sciences, medicine, health
& life
Particularly strong in 19th C
publications on South Asia and
in South Asian languages, many
unique in UK
Welsh Language Collection
Women advising Women, Pt.2:
advice books, almanacs &
journals
Women’s Autobiographies
2,000
844
41
Pre-1979
Pre-1968
1800-1970
High
Conversion
High
Conversion
Microforms
Conversion
High
Conversion
High
High
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Cataloguing
High
High
Conversion
Conversion
Low
Cataloguing
Medium
Conversion
Cataloguing
High
Conversion
Incl. serials
High
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Microfilm (22
High
Cataloguing
Incl. serials
Incl. serials
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Consortium of University Research Libraries
Research Libraries of the British Isles in co-operation
Southampton
Southampton
Rare printed autobiographies
covering 55 women’s lives
Early Women Authors: From
early British fiction
Writing from 34 authors, incl.
Penelope Aubin, Jane Barker,
Aphra Behn & Eliza Haywood
Women Writers of the
Eighteenth Century
reels)
42
100
17C-18C
English
Microfilm
(25 reels) –
ongoing
publication
High
Cataloguing
128
1700-1800
English
Microfilm (26
reels)
High
Cataloguing
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Research Libraries of the British Isles in co-operation
Cross-disciplinary Collections
Subjects
Institutions
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
BL
BL
BL
BL
Named Collections /
Descriptions
Library of Rev. Harry Nicoll,
Lumsden etc.
Penguin collection
General collection of books
published by Penguin
Union Catalogue of Books
(UCB)
Much unique material; exclusive
holdings of pre-1980 English and
foreign lang. books
All subjects
India Office European printed
books catalogue
Oriental Collections W
European printed books
catalogues
Romanised oriental language
catalogues
Printed books in oriental
languages
Number of
items (ca.)
Date
range
Format
(other than
books)
Research
Importance
Conversion or
cataloguing?
Cataloguing
4,640
C19-20
Mainly English
Medium
1,444
C20
Mainly English
Low
1950-1980
Various
585,000
High
Conversion
19,000
High
Conversion
6,500
High
Conversion
78,000
Incl.
pamphlets
Oriental
BL
India Office Library Non-Roman
scripts catalogues
Cambridge
Royal Commonwealth Society
Library
72,300
Mainly
C18-20
Cambridge
Supplementary card catalogue
500,000
C19-20
Cambridge
Supplementary sheaf catalogue
170,000
C19
Cambridge
Incunabula
4,500
Cambridge
Chapbooks
7,000
192,400
43
Languages
C18-19
Hebrew, Yiddish;
Chinese, Japanese;
Korean; some SE Asian
Mainly English, some
Western European and
non Roman
Mainly English, some
Western European
Mainly English, some
Western European
Mainly western
European
2/3 English, 1/3 Western
European
Conversion
High
Incl. 30,000
pamphlets
and 2,300
serials
Incl.
pamphlets
Incl.
pamphlets
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
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Cambridge
Cambridge
Durham
Durham
Durham
Durham
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
KCL
KCL
Liverpool
Pamphlets
Humanities and social sciences
Microform series
Humanities and social science
Library of Edward Maltby
(1770-1859) Bishop of Durham
Classical lit. philology, theology,
sciences
Library of Thomas Winterbottom
(1766-1859), physician. Travel
(Africa, Asia), natural science,
some lit.
St Chad’s College Collection
Richmond Grammar School
Collection
Main Library, Dewey collection –
All subjects
Main Library Strong Room – All
subjects
Main Library ,5th floor, closed
access
Main Library ,6th floor
Main Library , Storage areas
Main Library , Reference
collection
Rare Books Collection
Theology & philosophy, history
(especially of the Levant, Greece
& Portugal), music, Classical,
English & German lit., maths,
botany, zoology, astronomy. All
items rare, some believed to be
unique
Sion College Library Collection
European history, Classical &
English lit., topography, art
archaeology, science
Gifts (mostly arts, but also soc.
Sciences, technology, law,
science and medicine)
5,000
C20-
7,000
C18-
Mainly Western
European
Mainly Western
European and some non
Roman
310
1,400
129
150
44
Conversion
Microform
Conversion
Incl. serials
(C19)
Conversion
C18-19
Conversion
Pre-1700
Durham
Conversion
15,000
1800-
All
5,000
1465-
All
20,000
1800-
All
30,000
25,000
25,000
150018501800-
All
All
All
8,000
1501-1900
20,000
6,000
Incl. serials
Low
Conversion
Medium
Conversion
Incl. serials
Medium
Conversion
Incl. serials
Incl. serials
Incl. serials
Medium
Low
Medium
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
English, French,
German, Greek, Italian,
Latin, Portuguese
High
Conversion
1850-1950
English, French, Latin,
Greek
High
Cataloguing
10% pre1950, 15%
1950-69,
75%
1970-
Mostly English
High
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Manchester
General Store sequences
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
Catalogue 2
ILS Series (incl. Carnegie
Institute of Washington
publications)
ILS SSS
ILS Dewey
ILS Microforms
ILS Reserve
OPU files
Catalogue 1
ILS Reserve (unprocessed)
ILS MSP/P/FP
ILS COM
W R Aitken collection of Hugh
MacDiarmid
Literature, politics
George Borrow Collection
ASH Collection
Colin Campbell Collection
Clan Mackay Society
Continuations (backlog)
Crawford Collections
Ian Dunn Collection
Cassidy Collection
John Grant Booksellers
Haig
Keir Hardie / Emrys Hughes
Michael McGahey Collection
McTaggart
Merchant Co
Minto Papers
NLS
NLS
Moody Collection
Thomas Murray
1,700
NLS
Newhailes Library
7,000
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
750,000
1800-
All
C16-1978
Various
Various
Conversion
Conversion
Pre-1973
1610-1972
Pre-1970
C18-1972
Various
English
English
Various
Pre-1701
C18-1972
19701973-
Various
Various
Various
Various
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
4,330
13,466
50,400
1,500
45,600
2,000
14,000
15,600
8,212
11,760
120
300
1,000
800
900
25,000
48,000
200
6,000
70
65
60
500
125
150
45
Incl.
Microform
material, e.g.
two early
English
Books series
Microforms
Pamphlets
Incl. serials
Papers
Incl. serials
Pre-1801
Pre-1801
Incl. serials
Papers
6 boxes of
papers
6 boxes of
pamphlets
Incl. maps &
Conversion,
mostly
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
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music
Mainly
school
textbooks
NLS
Oliver & Boyd Collection
5,000
NLS
NLS
NLS
Paisley Public Library
Paolozzi Collection
Isabel Paterson / Mercier
Collection
Saltoun Manse Collection
Biography, history, lit., theology,
topography, travel
Scanlan Collection
Stevenson Collection
Sir George Taylor Collection
Ronald Selby Wright Collection
Special collection (Arts / Social
sciences) 2,000 Arts, 220 Social
Sciences
Hallward Library
(serials/analyticals) ca. 1/6 social
sciences
Magdeburg Collection
GDR material
2,500 social sciences & 500
science & technology
Cotton Research Corp. Library
4,600
100
8
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
50
Cataloguing
1,000
150
500
350
2,220
High
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Conversion
Medium
Conversion
Medium
Cataloguing
High
Cataloguing
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottingham
LSE
Basement red strip (3rd floor
reserve collection) – All subject
areas but 50% social sciences
LSE
‘Old’ reserve collection
Broad range of subjects unclassified
Y collection
Broad range of subjects as items
set aside because of their size
not subject
Reference Collection
History, Geography, language &
literature, general
LSE
LSE
Pre-1978
3,100
Mostly
C20-
2/3 English, 1/3 Western
European; some nonRoman
Mostly English (2/3) and
Western European (1/3)
2,500
C20-
Western European
Recently
acquired
34,000
C20-
English
1890s1940s;
some
items from
1960s and
1970s
18001950s
Chiefly English with
some German, French &
Italian
4,200
1,235
450
46
Pre-1700
onwards
English
1880s1950s
19001970s
Chiefly English with
some German and
French
Chiefly English with
some German
English
Incl. serials
Incl. serials
Incl.
pamphlets &
maps
Incl. serials
& pamphlets
Cataloguing
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
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Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Queen Elizabeth House
(International Development
Centre)
Residue of items held by the
former libraries of the Institute of
Agricultural Economics and of
Commonwealth Studies
F-Floor shelves – Bodleian Rare
Books - All subjects
Harding M 351Pre-1851 British imprints
Harding 0 119Freemasonry, geography
Bodleian, Rare books section
Johnson chapbooks
Bodleian, Rare books section
Johnson d-size & e-sized
pamphlets
Bodleian, Rare books section
Political science and sciences
Pre-1920 exclusions
Bodleian, Rare books section
All subjects
San Garde
Bodleian, Rare books section
All subjects
Collection on F-floor
Bodleian, Rare books section
All subjects
Orrery collection
Christ Church College
C17 science and medicine,
French enlightenment lit.
Harris Manchester College
Early printed books
Hertford College
Various subjects
12,000
Queens College
Classic, history, mathematics,
modern languages, theology,
literature
70,500
65
47
1840s1980s
Conversion
&Cataloguing
All periods
Various
Medium
Cataloguing
307
C17-19
Mainly English
High
Cataloguing
2,000
C18-20
Mainly English
High
Cataloguing
851
C18-20
Mainly English
High
Cataloguing
2,100
C19-20
Mainly English
High
Cataloguing
500
All periods
Various
Medium
Cataloguing
260
C16-20
Various
Medium
Cataloguing
70
C17-19
Various
Medium
Cataloguing
2,500
1500-1800
Chiefly Latin and
English, but various
other languages
Cataloguing
8,500
Pre-1800
Many English, 510
Foreign
Cataloguing
18,000
15,000
post-1950;
3,000
C15-20
Pre-1800,
18001970s
Conversion
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Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Southampton
St John’s College
University College
Incl. rowne Library (1,000); 350
science items incl. early editions
of Newton; C17 religious
pamphlets; 630 pre-1641
imprints
Wadham College
Esp. Spanish, botanical and
theological collections
Worcester College
Architecture, history, travel,
literature, science, theology,
philosophy
Much rare material
Hartley Library pre-81 stock
Sheffield
Wide range of subjects, mainly
pamphlets and quartos
Southampton
Bolton Deposit
British politics, religion, economy
Legal deposit collections
90% UK publications
All subjects
Special collections (see printed
catalogue of 1860)
Special collections
18,000 from C18; 25,000 from
C19; remainder from C20
Strong Room Ogden
Rare books from the Library of
C.K. Ogden, deposited on loan
by Nuffield Foundation in 1953
All subjects
Ogden Collection
Library of C.K. Ogden,
All subjects, especially English
lit. history, politics etc.
137.33 metres
Pre-1851 classified
TCD
TCD
TCD
UCL
UCL
UCL
28,000
10,730
Post-1800
1500-1970
18,000
1480-1950
50,000
1500-1900
250,000
1830-1981
English Spanish etc.
Primarily English and
European languages;
some Latin & Greek
500
1729-1870
English
1,000,000
1860-1960
Various European
languages
55,000
Conversion
Incl. 15,000
pamphlets
55,778
200,000
22,435
48
Conversion
Incl.
pamphlets
Medium
Conversion
Incl.
pamphlets
Medium
Pamphlets
Medium
Conversion
(60%) –
Upgrading
(40%)
Cataloguing
Conversion
Up to
1860
C18-20
Conversion
Cataloguing
1,380
5,219
Conversion
Conversion
Incl.
pamphlets
C17-
Incl. serials
and
pamphlets
High
Conversion
High
Conversion
High
Conversion
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ULL
590.39 metres
De Morgan Library
Personal collection of Augustus
De Morgan (1806-1871)
representing his interests as a
bibliophile and mathematician
Early material candidate for
CURL Britain in Print
3,900
49
1482-1871
Mainly English, some
Western European
Incl.
pamphlets
High
Conversion
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Grey Literature
Subjects
Cross-subject
Institutions
BL
Cambridge
Official publications
All subjects
NLS
OPU Serials & Series
NLS
NLS
Oxford
British
Government
Leeds
NLS
Nottingham
Nottingham
European
Community
Aberdeen
Leeds
Nottingham
Oxford
Economics
Named Collections /
Descriptions
Official publications (BLDSC)
Incl. British, Foreign, American
and intergovernmental. No
Parliamentary papers.
LSE
Number of
items (ca.)
62,000
25,000
15,000
22,000
Total:
124,000
150,000
Date
range
Languages
Format
Mainly English
C19-
Mainly English, some
Western European,
Roman and non Roman
Research
Importance
Medium
Monographs
(112,500),
serials
(37,500)
Monograph
and serials
series
Papers
Papers
Conversion or
cataloguing?
Conversion
Conversion
5,500
English
HMSO/TSO annual catalogues
Supplementary catalogues to
OP
Nuffield College
UK government, UN, OECD, EU
British Official Publications
242,000
10,000
English
English
OPU India Papers
British administration in India
Hallward Library
British government departmental
publications
Hallward Library
British Government Publications
Parliamentary papers
Complete coll. of EC
publications
European Documentation Centre
Hallward Library
EDC monographs
Bodleian Law Library – EDC
materials
Serials gap list
Official publications / commercial
bulletins / industrial relations /
4,200
-1948
English
10,000
C20-
English
High
Conversion
32,600
Mostly
C20- ;
some C19
1970-
English
High
Cataloguing
Medium
Cataloguing
9,000
2,500
C20-
English
Low
High
Conversion
Conversion
5,700
1957-1987
High
Conversion
4,000
1830s1970s
95,000
C20
27,000
12,000
50
Conversion
Conversion
High
Conversion
Low
Cataloguing
Papers
Microfiche
Chiefly English
Conversion
Conversion
Conversion
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Education
Glasgow
Geography
Oxford
Health
Oxford
Southampton
Southampton
Southampton
Southampton
Southampton
Southampton
Southampton
Southampton
Southampton
History
Warwick
International
Leeds
LSE
commerce
Scottish Council for Research in
Education coll.
Geography (Departmental
library)
Institute of Health Sciences
Library
Some rare collections
Department of Health Circulars
Local Government Board
Reports on public health and
social subjects
Ministry / Department of Health
Reports on public health and
social subjects
OPCS/ONS Studies on medical
and population subjects
League of Nations Health
Organisation Statistical
Handbook series
WHO Technical Report series
WHO Euro Reports and Studies
WHO Regional Office for Europe
Reports
WHO Regional Office for Europe
International conference on
primary health care ICP reports
Command papers
3,000
Government publications backup
Y - IGO
Law
Oxford
Scotland
NLS
NLS
Bodleian Law Library
Incl. Law Reform Commission
reports
Scottish Office
Scottish Museum Council
English
High
15,000
500
Conversion
1980-
High
Conversion
1948-1998
1909-1920
English
English
Medium
High
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
170
1920-1992
English
High
Cataloguing
1950-
English
High
Cataloguing
9
1926-1927
English
High
Cataloguing
800
100
380
1950-1998
1979-1983
1955-1973
English
English
English
High
High
High
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
120
1978-1984
English
High
Cataloguing
1935-
English
Medium
Conversion &
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
22,300
2,250
2,000
950
2,000
500
1,000
51
Conversion
25,000
40
70
Foreign & Commonwealth
material
IGO publications (mostly)
LSE
1970-2000
Medium
18501970s
18001970s
English
Conversion
Chiefly English with
around 30% in French,
Spanish, Portuguese
Conversion
Post
1920-
Medium
Incl. serials
Serials
Conversion
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
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Serials
Subjects
Serials – Crosssubject
Institutions
Named Collections /
Descriptions
Number of
items (ca.)
Aberdeen
Reserve collections
Cambridge
Edinburgh
Secondary periodicals
Main Library, 5th floor, open
access – All subjects
Serials
Mirror Group
Bodleian – Main Periodical
collections
UK, Western European &
Slavonic
Johnson annuals
Bodleian, Rare Books section
Johnson periodicals
Bodleian, Rare Books section
All subjects
Modern languages newspapers
19,000
10,000
Non-official serials
Mostly social sciences with
some politics
Old SML periodical entries
10,000
1860s1070s
3,000
C19-20
NLS
NLS
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Languages
Leeds
Social sciences
LSE
Science &
Engineering
Imperial
200
Date
range
2,000
900
40,000
Languages
Research
Importance
Conversion or
cataloguing?
C19-20
Largely English
Medium
Cataloguing
C191800-
Largely English
All
High
Conversion
Conversion
C19-
Various
High
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Conversion
110
C19-20
Many English
High
Cataloguing
3,500
C18-20
Various
High
Cataloguing
Medium
Cataloguing
400
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Format
(other than
books)
Chiefly English with
some German, French
and Scandinavian
Mostly English, other
European
Conversion
High
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Maps
Subjects
Institutions
Number of
items (ca.)
20,000
180,000
Date
range
Format
(other than
books)
Research
Importance
Conversion or
cataloguing?
Low
Medium
Cataloguing
Conversion
High
Cataloguing
High
Cataloguing
QML collection of sheet maps
Maps
BL
Ministry of Defence donations
Cartographic materials from all
countries, much unlikely to have
been acquired through normal
channels
40,000
BL
War Office Special Deposit
materials
Unique military maps drawn
using original survey data
(WOOGs, WOOSs, WOMATS).
Valuable for early colonial maps
of Africa
Royal United Services Institution
Maps
15,000
4,000
High
Conversion
BL
India Office Maps
20,000
High
Conversion
BL
Cambridge
Rodney Shirley Project
Maps
Medium
Upgrading
Conversion
Glasgow
Newcastle
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
NLS
Oxford
MOPS
Hindson Reid Collection
Map Library Catalogue
Stevenson Maps and Plans
Sutherland Deposit Maps
Bound maps
Sheet maps
Manuscript maps
Geography (Departmental
library)
(of which 45,000 to be
Medium
Medium
Conversion
Cataloguing
Conversion
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Conversion
60,000
121,000
1,000
40
43,300
2,500
550
1,000
1,600,000
4,000
60,000
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C20
Mainly
C20
C20
Languages
Aberdeen
Birmingham
BL
Geography
Named Collections /
Descriptions
Late C19early C20
Pre-1800
6,500 pre1700,
C18C19-20
1870-1960
Pre-2000
Pre-1801
Various
Various
English
Sheet maps,
single/sets
and atlases;
books,
gazetteers,
periodicals.
Sheet maps
deposited
under
Special
Deposit
Instrument
(PRO)
Ca. 100,000 English, ca.
20,000 Western
European
English
Various
Mostly maps
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Geology
Imperial
Geology
Geographical,
topographical,
political etc.
Imperial
Oxford
TCD
TCD
ULL
transferred to Bodleian)
Geology historical maps
(Geology England, Scotland &
Oreland, incl. Coalfield sections)
Geology maps
Bodleian Library
Incl. foreign and antiquarian
material
1,300
4,602
1,150,000
Legal deposit maps
Legal deposit sheet maps –
650,000 to be catalogued in
series entries
Nearly all UK origin
Map collection
Incl. 20,000 antiquarian maps
Late C19
Mostly English
High
Conversion
Late
medieval
to early
C21
Various
High
High
Conversion
1,500
50,000
85,500
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Cataloguing
High
Cataloguing
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Theses
Subjects
Theses –
Cross-subject
Institutions
Named Collections /
Descriptions
BL
British Theses (BLDSC)
Cambridge
LSE
Foreign dissertations
Theses
KCL
All subjects taught at KCL:
humanities, law, sciences and
medicine
Bodleian – Foreign dissertations
PhDs largely from European
universities
Mainly law, science and social
sciences
Radcliffe Science Library
Oxford University doctoral
dissertations in science,
technology and medicine
Various subjects reflecting
Warwick University’s early
research interests
Theses
Oxford
Oxford
Warwick
LSE
Civil
engineering
Earth Sciences
Imperial
Education
Aberdeen
Birmingham
Humanities
Birmingham
Imperial
Number of
items (ca.)
150,000
25,000
2,500
Date
range
Languages
Pre-1980
Format
(other than
books)
Research
Importance
Conversion or
cataloguing?
High
Conversion
Western European
Chiefly English
5,500
C191920s1970s
1900-1980
English
Medium
Conversion
405,000
1750-1972
French (50%), German
(38%), remainder
primarily in Latin,
English, Flemish and
Spanish
Medium
Conversion
10,000
1923-1994
1,200
1964-1985
English
2,500
Chiefly English
4,000
1920s1970s
C20
English
Medium
Conversion
1,200
C20
English
Medium
Conversion
600
140
C20
C20
English
English
Medium
Medium
Conversion
Conversion
1,700
C20
English
High
Conversion
Civil Engineering Theses
backruns
Earth Science Engineering
Theses backruns (incl. Geology)
M.Ed theses, Univ. of Aberdeen
Research theses, Univ. of
Birmingham
Research theses, Univ. of
Birmingham
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Conversion
Medium
Medium
Conversion
Conversion
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Medicine
Birmingham
Liverpool
Social Sciences
Birmingham
Science &
Engineering
Birmingham
Imperial
Imperial
Research theses, Univ. of
Birmingham
Tropical Medicine Dissertations
(postgraduate, Univ. of
Liverpool)
Research theses, Univ. of
Birmingham
Research theses, Univ. of
Birmingham
Central Library Theses backruns
Hammersmith Library Theses
backruns
700
C20
English
Medium
Conversion
1970-
English
High
Conversion
400
C20
English
High
Conversion
4,300
C20
English
Medium
Conversion
1979-85
C20 pre1979
English
English
High
High
Conversion
Conversion
2,000
2,600
13,000
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Miscellaneous
Subjects
Institutions
Number of
items (ca.)
Glasgow
30,528
Glasgow
Glasgow
2,200
8,800
Glasgow
Glasgow
Imperial
Imperial
Leeds
Newcastle
Newcastle
Oxford
Oxford
ULL
Beekeeping
Calendars
Costume history
Named Collections /
Descriptions
NLS
NLS
Southampton
Maclehose
Cadum
Miscellaneous post-1850 (stack
19-21) – City & Guilds
Collection? (Engineering, life
sciences, Geology)
Miscellaneous pre-1850 (stack
18) (General science, maths,
engineering)
Cookery Collection, Camden
Eldon Collection – belonged to
Lord Chancellor Eldon
Peter Isaac Private Press
Collection
Dunston F & G
Bodleian, Rare Books section
Reference, Periodicals&
miscellaneous
Harding Foreign
Foreign miscellaneous
Carlton Shorthand Collection
Of the shorthand bibliography
William J Carlton (1886-1973)
Much material rare or unique
Early material candidate for
CURL Britain in Print
Moir Beekeeping Collection
University calendars
Janet Arnold Collection,
Winchester School of Art
Date
range
Languages
Mainly English
1,200
3,500
200
Mainly
C20
C19-20
C19-20
(pre 1968)
Pre-1976
Pre-1968
1850-C20
100
1750-1850
English, German,
French
C18-C19
English, Latin
Several
hundreds
650
C20
English
C18-19
Mainly English
433
C19
Various
C16-20
Over 60 languages &
dialects
2,000
200
18,000
220
93
3,000
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Mainly English
Mainly English
English
Mainly English
English, German,
French
Format
(other than
books)
Pamphlets
Incl.
Pamphlets
and grey
literature
Incl.
ephemera
Incl. serials
Incl. serials,
pamphlets,
prints etc.
Research
Importance
Low
Conversion
High
High
Conversion
Conversion
Low
Medium
Low
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Low
Cataloguing
Medium
High
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Medium
Cataloguing
Medium
Cataloguing
Medium
Cataloguing
High
Cataloguing
Medium
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
Pre-1801
C20
Mainly English, some
French and Spanish
Incl.
Pamphlets,
Conversion,
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Southampton
Montse Stanley Knitting
Collection, Winchester School of
Art
7,000
C20
Mainly English, some
French and Spanish
Southampton
Richard Rutt (known as the
‘knitting bishop’) Collection,
Winchester School of Art
Johnson greeting booklets
Bodleian Library, Rare Books
section
Gregynog Press Books
Ruari McLean Collection
BOOK DESIGN,
TYPOGRAPHY, PRINTING
OUP Type Specimens
Bodleian Library, Rare Books
section
Printed Dep
Bodleian Library, Rare Books
section
Printer’s library
Bodleian Library, Rare Books
section
Oxford Imprints
Julis Smit
Bodleian Library, Rare Books
section
Dutch Imprints
19th century Trade Catalogues
Book sale catalogues
Booksellers catalogues
1,500
C19-20C
English
1,000
C19-20
Greeting
booklets
Oxford
Printing history
NLS
NLS
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Oxford
Trade
catalogues
BL
NLS
Cataloguing
Medium
Cataloguing
High
Cataloguing
1923-1940
PRE-1994
English
344
C18-20
Various
High
Cataloguing
50
All
subjects
Various
Low
Cataloguing
2,000
C16-19
English & Latin
Medium
Cataloguing
28
C18-19
Dutch
Medium
Cataloguing
C19
English
High
Conversion
300
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120
845
12,000
M-P Détraz
April 2004
slides, dress
patterns
Incl. 1,500
books &
serials, plus
knitting
patterns,
photographs
& postcards
Incl.
Pamphlets &
serials
Cataloguing
Cataloguing
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University of Aberdeen Directorate of Information Systems & Services
University of Birmingham Information Services
University of Bristol Information Services
British Library
Cambridge University Library
Durham University Library
Edinburgh University Library
Glasgow University Library
Imperial College London Library
John Rylands University Library of Manchester
King's College London Information Services & Systems
Leeds University Library
University of Liverpool Library
University of London Library
Library of The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Wales
Newcastle University Library
University of Nottingham Information Services
University of Oxford Libraries
The University of Sheffield Library
University of Southampton Libraries
Trinity College Library Dublin
UCL (University College London) Library Services
University of Warwick Library
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