Slaveholders in Jamaica

Tomorrow, Wednesday 28th October 2009, the Caribbean Studies Seminar Series at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies presents:

Seminar & Book Launch: Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition

Speakers: Christer Petley, University of Southampton and Professor Gad Heuman, University of Warwick
Time: 5pm; Venue: G32, Senate House.

Slaveholders in Jamaica draws on a number of sources, including slave registration data, tax records, property deeds, court records, vestry minutes, electoral records, newspapers, published works, Governors' correspondence, local Assembly records and collections of letters and correspondence. Among these sources have been the Taylor family papers (ICS 120) held in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Archives, mainly letters written and received between 1770 and 1835 by Simon Taylor, his family and heirs, and his friends, agents and business partners, relating to their Jamaican estates and business interests.

A detailed catalogue of this collection is available within the ULRLS Archives Catalogue. The archive collections also include records of the Jamaican Castle Wemyss Estate, and of the shipping and trading compant of Sandbach, Tinne and Co.

Books received in August 2009

Apologies for the delay in making this list available:

Click to view all items added to the Reference Collection in August.

Books received in July 2009

Apologies for the delay in making this list available:

Click to view all items added to the Reference Collection in July.

Archives - Catholic Institute for International Relations - catalogue complete

Thanks to the support of the Vice Chancellor's Development Fund, and the work by Project Cataloguer Jane Kirby, we are pleased to announce that our collection of papers from the Catholic Institute for International Relations have now been fully catalogued and records for this collection are available on our archives catalogue.

The Sword of the Spirit organization was founded by lay Catholics in 1940 with the aims of combatting fascism and informing society and the church about international development. It changed its name to the Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) in 1965. It now operates volunteer and educational programmes and seeks to eradicate poverty, injustice and exclusion, and encourage a more equitable distribution of resources. CIIR changed its name to Progressio in 2006.

The collection held by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Institute for the Study of the Americas Libraries, comprises mostly photocopied material generated by CIIR and other associated charities, government departments and non-governmental organisations (NGO'S) working in or having links to southern Africa, Latin America and to a lesser extent Asia. The material contains administrative and financial papers, many relating to CIIR's publishing activities; correspondence; conference and meeting papers; reports by religious and non-religious groups and individuals on issues such as human rights, election monitoring, land reform, apartheid, violence, prisoners and detainees and education; project papers including recruitment details, funding applications and progress reports; photographs; press cuttings; publications, both by CIIR and external organisations and some ephemera.

The collection dates from 1955 to 2004 and forms a rich resource for study of the regions covered, the role of development organisations and the relationships between faith and development politics.

A one-day workshop on NGOs, Human Rights and Development will be held early in 2010 to mark the opening of this collection.

Research Training at Commonwealth Studies Library

This year we're in the initial planning stages of a planned series of short (no more than two hours) hands-on workshops aimed at small groups of Masters and Postgraduate Research students, looking at the use of various resources for ‘Commonwealth studies’ in both electronic and print format. Suggestions so far include
• the use of census material
• colonial blue books and annual reports from the colonies
• the Confidential Print
• maps and geographical sources
• and finding biographical information.

We would welcome your feedback as to whether you think such an idea would be of use to you or your students, whether the length is appropriate, what time of day may best suit students and what resources or topics may meet their needs.

We would also welcome any general comments on information training needs and how we could contribute to meet these needs; as well as any other general comments and feedback.

Please respond by email to david.clover@sas.ac.uk

We are also happy to arrange tours for groups of students, if you are interested, please do get in touch.

Open Access Journals - General Titles

Our final list of journal titles - being titles of a general nature available on display for one year:

Black and Asian Studies Association Newsletter
Canadian Journal of Development Studies
Developing Economies
Development Dialogue
Developments
Global Development Studies
IDS Bulletin
International Journal
International Migration
Interventions
Itinerario
New Internationalist
Third World Resurgence

Open Access Journals - Africa

Below are listed African journal titles for which the most recent year is available on open display:

Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Africa Insight
Africa Quarterly
Africa Today
African Affairs
African Book Publishing Record
African Historical Review
African Journal of Conflict Resolution
African Research and Documentation
African Security Review
African Studies Review
Agenda
Australasian Review of African Studies
Canadian Journal of African Studies
Conflict Trends
Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review
Fast Facts
History in Africa
International Journal of African Historical Studies
Journal of Contemporary History/ Joernall vir Eietydse Geskiedenis
Journal of African Economies
Journal of African History
Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Journal of Modern African Studies
Journal of Namibian Studies
Journal of Southern African Studies
OSSREA Newsletter (Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern Africa)
Review of African Political Economy
Society of Malawi Journal
South African Historical Journal
South African Journal of International Affairs
Tanzanian Affairs
Transformation
The Zimbabwean

Open Access Journals - Asia

Continuing to work through our lists of journals for which we keep the last year on open access for your browsing pleasure and to support keeping up to date on your areas of interest. Today we list Asian titles covering South and South East Asia:

ASEAN Economic Bulletin
Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
Asia Pacific Viewpoint
Asian Economic Review
Asian Studies Newsletter
Asian Survey
Bangladesh Development Studies
BIISS Journal (Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies)
Contemporary South Asia
Contemporary Southeast Asia
Economic and Political Weekly
Indian Journal of Public Administration
Indian Journal of Secularism
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Pakistan Development Review
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
South Asia Economic Journal
South Asia Newsletter

The Commonwealth in the 21st Century

Tonight sees the Inaugural Lecture of the 'Serving the Next Generation:The Commonwealth in the 21st Century', organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies to mark the 60th anniversaries of the Modern Commonwealth and the Institute.

Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma will speak on the topic: 'The Commonwealth at 60 - facing the challenges of its times'

The Library holds publications from both the Commonwealth Secretariat as well as a host of other COmmonwealth organisations. We also hold archival collections of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation; Commonwealth Journalists Association; Commonwealth Press Union and Commonwealth Trade Union Council.

Open Access Journals - Commonwealth

Recent issues (the last twelve months) of the following journals are available in NG22, in the new Commonwealth Studies Library for browsing:

Bulletin: Association of Commonwealth Universities
Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
Commonwealth Innovations: the newsletter of the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management (CAPAM)
Commonwealth News Release
Commonwealth Youth and Development
Connections: News from the Commonwealth of Learning
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Parliamentarian: Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth
Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs
The Table: the Journal of the Society of Clerks-at-the-Table in Commonwealth Parliaments

SCOLMA UK Library and Archives Group on Africa Seminar

The Library is pleased to be hosting the next SCOLMA Lunchtime Seminar:

Dr Susan Williams, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies

"Jazz, photographs and YouTube: using modern media to enrich research on twentieth century Africa"

1PM; Wednesday 21st October , 2009
Room ST275, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DN

Coffee and sandwiches from 12.30pm

Please contact Marilyn Glanfield (email: meg23@cam.ac.uk; telephone 01223 334398) if you wish to attend, indicating whether you would like sandwiches )

For information on SCOLMA Lunchtime Seminars and other events are see the SCOLMA website http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/scolma

Open Access Recent Journals - Canada

The most recent twelve months of the following Canadian journals are available on open access for browsing. Earlier issues can be requested and consulted on the 4th Floor South Block Library.

Acadiensis: Journal of the history of the Atlantic region
American Review of Canadian Studies
Australasian Canadian Studies
BC Studies
British Journal of Canadian Studies
Canadian Foreign Policy
Canadian Historical Review
Canadian Journal of Political Science
Canadian Parliamentary Review
Canadian Public Administration
Canadian Social Trends
Etudes canadiennes: Canadian Studies
Inroads: A Journal of Opinion
International Journal of Canadian Studies
Journal of Canadian Studies/ Revue d’études canadiennes
Labour/ Le Travail
Labour, Capital and Society/ Travail, Capital et Société
Literary Review of Canada
Quebec Studies

New Opening Hours

Now term time has started we're pleased to advise that we have extended opening hours from what we were able to offer in our Russell Square premises. We open earlier, close later and will be open on Saturdays!

During term time our opening hours are:
Monday 28 September 2009 - Friday 18 December 2009

Monday - Thursday 09.00 - 21.00
Friday 09.00 - 18.30
Saturday 09.45 - 17.30

The Library is closed every Sunday and over the Christmas Holidays from Thursday 24 December to Sunday 3 January inclusive.
(The Library will reopen after the Christmas break on Monday 4 January at 09.00.)

Open Access Recent Journals - Caribbean

The last 12 months of the following titles are on display for browsing in NG22, within the new Commonwealth Studies Library:

Arts Journal
Caribbean Dialogue
Caribbean Quarterly
Caribbean Review of Books
Caribbean Studies
Jamaican Journal
Journal of Caribbean History
Journal of Caribbean Studies
Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies
Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
NWIG (New West Indian Guide/Niewe West-Indische Gids)
Small Axe
Social and Economic Studies
Society for Caribbean Studies Newsletter
Wadabagei

Access to Archives and Special Collections

As part of the recent moves we are now offering access to Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library archives and special collections from the Goldsmiths Library, 4th Floor, South Block, Senate House Library.

Collections can be consulted alongside other Senate House Library collections, and will be more properly supervised under these arrangements.

Opening Hours are detailed at http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk/specialcollections/historicaccess.shtml

Readers are advised to consult Special Collections staff at least 24 hours in advance of their visit to establish the nature of the finding aids available for and access to specific collections.

Special Collections items may be requested by email, telephone, letter, fax or in person. Library members can use the 'Book this item' facility to request rare and early printed books in the main catalogue in advance of their visit. Fetch slips for all materials are available from the Special Collections reading room in the Goldsmiths' Library, Fourth Floor, Senate House).

Please note that Special Collections items are only fetched at certain times of the day. Archives, manuscripts and artefacts are available for consultation by prior appointment only, and at 24 hours' notice.

Certain precautions are applied to protect unique and often fragile documents as they must be handled carefully to ensure their future preservation. All material is read under supervision in the Special Collections Reading Room where a security camera is also in operation. Readers are asked to leave bags in the lockers provided and to use pencils when taking notes. No eating, drinking or chewing gum is allowed.

Laptops may be used unless keyboard noise proves a distraction to others.

Open Access Recent Journals - Atlantic and Mediterranean

The last twelve months of the following journals are avauilable in NG22 for browsing:

MEDITERRANEAN

Cyprus Economic Policy Review
Cyprus News
Cyprus Review
Cyprus Today
Ekonomia
FEMA Research Bulletin
Report: Friends of Cyprus


ATLANTIC

Falkland Islands Journal
Falkland Islands Newsletter
Falklands Focus
Tristan da Cunha Newsletter