61 Saint Giles'
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3LZ
UK
This conference will consider the various ways in which libraries have served as generators of professional knowledge, and examine how they succeeded in doing so.
Keynote Address by Anthony Watkinson, Honorary Lecturer (UCL) and Principal Consultant (CIBER Research)
The growth in numbers, cost and importance of journals in the later twentieth century and how this has impacted on the role of academic libraries
Other addresses:
Folios, hedgehogs, sketches and pickles: the traffic of books, specimens and drawings between physicians in Restoration England, Lucy Gwynn
The role of manuscripts in the acquisition of professional knowledge for the seventeenth century clergy, Helen Kemp
The Library of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Jennifer Hillyard
A Pioneer Regional Professional Association for Librarians in the UK, John Tiernan
‘For the last many years in England everybody has been educating the people, but they have forgotten to find them any books’. The Mechanics’ Institute in Britain, Martyn Walker
Building a natural history library: the collection of Willoughby Gardner, Kristine Chapman
Mind, Body, and Spiritualism: a case study of the personal collections of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome and Harry Houdini, Daniel Gooding
The National Library of Wales’s Duplicates Section, Julie Mathias
Leo Cadogan (http://www.leocadogan.com/) will be displaying a selection of antiquarian books from his collection along with an illustrated hand-out for participants.