Special libraries

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  • A library primarily serving one discipline or particular field.
  • Bibliothèque spécialisée dans une discipline ou un domaine particuliers.
  • Bliblioteca especializada en una disciplina específica o en un ámbito concreto.

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      12 Archival description results for Special libraries

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      GB 0102 MS 380592 · 1982-1991

      Papers relating to the Advisory Committee on Oriental Materials (ACOOM), 1982-1991, comprising Committee minutes and papers, 1988-1991; Annual Meetings minutes, 1988-1991; correspondence, 1987-1990, including administrative matters; Chairman's working papers, 1988-1991, including administrative arrangements and policy; Officers' correspondence and papers, 1982-1989; miscellaneous papers, 1987-1989, including papers relating to rules concerning ACOOM administration, answers to a questionnaire relating to conservation facilities for Oriental materials, and papers relating to the Union Catalogue of Asian Publications. Subjects covered by the papers also include a project on romanization systems and the future of SCONUL.

      Standing Committee on National and University Libraries , Advisory Committee on Oriental Materials
      GB 1697 A.IALS 9 · 1980-1988

      Papers of Miss Muriel Anderson, Assistant Librarian at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), 1980-1988, comprising her papers as a member of the British Library working party on provision for law, 1980-1982, including agenda, minutes, notes of meetings, submissions, policy and holdings; papers as Chairman of the British Library law working group, 1983-1988, established to examine and follow-up the working party's report, including correspondence, submissions, minutes, recommendations, and future initiatives; telephone book, [1982].

      Institute of Advanced Legal Studies , Assistant Librarian
      GB 0103 MS ADD 124 · Created c1847

      Catalogue of William Blackburn's law library, c1847.

      Blackburn , William , fl c1847 , barrister
      GB 0809 Bradford Hill · 1987-1990

      Papers of Sir Austin Bradford Hill, 1987-1990, comprise memoirs of his time working at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and correspondence mainly from Bradford Hill to Brian Furner, Librarian at LSHTM.

      Memoirs comprise personal recollections of Bradford Hill and discuss individual staff members and the evolving structure of LSHTM.

      Correspondence notably includes letters from Bradford Hill to Brian Furner and includes recollections requested by Furner and Bradford Hill's own requests for information held by the library, for his own work, including the obituary of John Fraser Roberts for the JRSS, 1987.

      Bradford Hill , Sir , Austin , 1897-1991 , Knight , Professor of Medical Statistics
      Grant Library Catalogue
      GB 0103 MS ADD 58 · [1861-1874]

      Catalogue of the private library of Professor Robert Edmond Grant, written in his hand after 1861.

      Grant , Robert Edmond , 1793-1874 , Professor of Comparative Anatomy
      Historical Files
      GB 1697 A.IALS 1 · 1934-1995

      Historical files, 1934-1995, of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), comprising compilations of events of interest in the history of the Institute, including background papers to its establishment, opening ceremonies, policy statements and press cuttings. The papers include a report of the Legal Education Committee, 1934; letters to Lord Macmillan about the Institute from David Hughes Parry, Director of the Institute, and K Howard Drake, Secretary of the Institute, 1934-1952; press cuttings about the Institute, 1934-1986; policy statements of the Institute, 1948-1955, including a statement of development policy, 1950, a legal research policy, 1954, and a joint IALS and School of Oriental and African Studies memorandum of agreement on Library policy, 1951; working papers, such as guest lists, speeches, press cuttings, correspondence and agenda, relating to the opening ceremony of the IALS, 1948; first IALS Prospectus, 1948; second IALS Annual Report, 1948-1949; records relating to the opening of the Nuffield Library, 1950; papers relating to the opening of Charles Clore House [Russell Square], 1976-1979; papers relating to the visit of HRH the Princess Anne, Chancellor, 1986; Academic Secretary's papers relating to the academic future of IALS, 1990-1995, including a proposal to create a Chair of Legal Education at the Institute, 1992; Academic Secretary's papers relating to the publications of IALS histories, 1995, comprising W A Steiner's draft history of IALS, and Mrs Barbara Steiner's reminiscences of early days at IALS; Academic Secretary's collection of obituaries, press cuttings and papers on Muriel Anderson, 1991, Norman Anderson, 1994, and Erwin Griswold, 1995.

      University of London , School of Advanced Study , Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
      GB 1697 A.IALS · 1934-2000

      Papers of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), 1934-2000, consisting of historical files, 1934-1995; correspondence and papers of IALS Directors, 1946-1987; correspondence and papers of the IALS Secretary/Librarian, 1936-1984; Secretary/Librarian's building and maintenance files, 1947-1975; IALS Secretary's new buildings files, 1959-1982; IALS Secretary's estimates files, 1949-1985; accounting records, 1947-1950; IALS Secretaries' policy and general files, 1971-1988; Assistant Librarian's correspondence and papers, 1980-1988; IALS Library sample records, 1960-1995; plans of IALS buildings, 1946-1974; photographs and portraits with related correspondence, [1960-1989]; printed and published papers produced by or concerning IALS, 1989-2000.

      University of London , School of Advanced Study , Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
      GB 1697 A.IALS 10 · 1960-1995

      Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) Library samples of working records, 1960-1995, comprising: IALS: Notes for Readers, 1960, 1972; sample gate signing-in books, 1975, 1985, 1995; index to foreign periodicals - payments record, 1979-1984.

      Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library
      GB 0103 LMS · 1853-1994

      Archives of the London Mathematical Society, 1853-1994, the bulk comprising c500 letters to Thomas Archer Hirst, 1853-1892, mainly in his capacity as a member of the LMS, including a letter inviting him to the first meeting of the Society, and also reflecting his travels in Europe, including letters from prominent European mathematicians. The letters include several from Henry M Bompas, 1865, 1874-1879; Arthur Cayley, 1858-1891 and undated; Michel Chasles, 1858-1871 and undated; Luigi Cremona, 1864-1892 and undated; Augustus De Morgan, 1861-1869; Georges-Henri Halphen, 1875-1879; Amédée Mannheim, 1866-1891; Julius Plücker, 1866-1868; William Roberts, 1859-1865 and undated; George Salmon, 1858-1878; [Hermann Cäsar Hannibal?] Schubert, 1877-1884; Henry John Stephen Smith, 1865-1876 and undated; William Spottiswoode, 1862, 1865, 1883; Cyparissos Stephanos, 1877-1887; Rudolf Sturm, 1874-1892; James Joseph Sylvester, 1859-1888 and undated; Barnaba Tortolini, 1858-1863; Richard Townsend, 1865-1878; John Van Voorst, 1864-1867; and there are a few letters from Hirst himself. The archive also includes a bound notebook containing a manuscript catalogue of the LMS library by R A Sampson, 1891-1893; miscellaneous administrative correspondence and papers, 1964-1975; membership lists, 1966-1972; binder of papers of H T J Norton on mathematics, with correspondence, largely to E H Neville, regarding their disposition in the LMS archive in c1938, and also including bibliographical material on elliptic functions, apparently compiled by Neville [1930s-1950s]; miscellaneous letters and papers on research, 1986, 1992-1994.

      London Mathematical Society Hirst , Thomas Archer , 1830-1892 , mathematician
      GB 0120 SA/GMR · 1957-1993

      Files, catalogues and one minute book of the Medical Recording Services Foundation and Graves Medical Audiovisual Library, documenting its activities from 1957 to 1993. Also one file on the Medical Audiotape Slide Producers Association (MASPA) set up by the Graves in 1974.

      Medical Recording Service Foundation and Graves Medical Audiovisual Library
      Secretary/Librarian papers
      GB 1697 A.IALS 3 · 1946-1984

      Correspondence and papers of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) Secretary/Librarian, 1946-1984, primarily comprise a selection of the general and administrative files of K Howard Drake, with a small amount of correspondence of W A F P Steiner and J A Boxhall. 'British Museum' file, holding correspondence of Drake and Steiner, 1947-1972; 'General correspondence' file relating to Library acquisitions and binding, 1956-1967; 'General correspondence' file on cataloguing and indexing procedures, 1965-1967; 'International Association of Law Libraries: course in law librarianship, Luxembourg, 1966', Drake's file as President of the IALL, 1965-1966; 'International Association of Law Libraries: Uppsala, 1966', Drake's file as President of the IALL, 1965-1966; correspondence between Drake and Elizabeth Moys, Acting Librarian, University of Lagos and later of Glasgow University Library, 1962-1968; 'Nuffield Foundation', correspondence and papers relating to grants to the IALS Library, 1946-1970; 'Standing conference of librarians of the libraries of the University of London', correspondence, 1954-1969; 'University Grants Commission: annual returns', 1948-1965; 'Library policy', draft policy statements, background papers, Library Committee minutes, 1947-1984; correspondence with the Library, Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada, 1949-1961; lists of current legal research topics, 1949-1966; correspondence and papers relating to the K Howard Drake memorial fund, 1968-1975; Secretary/Librarian's telephone directory; printed Finding list of primary source materials for British and Irish Law held by London libraries compiled by W A Steiner (IALS, 1974).

      Institute of Advanced Legal Studies , Secretary and Librarian
      Institute of Advanced Legal Studies , Librarian
      Institute of Advanced Legal Studies , Secretary
      GB 1697 A.SPTL · 1908-1999

      The Archive of the Society of Public Teachers of Law comprises:

      • Minute books and correspondence of the Council, General Committee, sub-committees and special committees

      • General correspondence and subject files

      • Papers of annual conferences and meetings and annotated papers presented at SPTL meetings

      • Registers, directories and lists of members and rules

      • Financial records

      • Printed material including the Journal of the SPTL/Legal Studies and SPTL Reporter

      • Correspondence and papers of individual officers of the Society

      • Records of officers of the Society

      • Conference and seminar records

      Society of Public Teachers of Law