Category Archives: Using the Collections

Items from Archives Unavailable 25th April- 30th May 2013

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Katie Giles

Please note that the following items from the Archives and Special Collections will be unavailable to researchers from 25th April to 30th May 2013. Letters from Iris Murdoch to Philippa Foot with the following reference numbers: KUAS100/1/1, KUAS100/1/3, KUAS100/1/5, KUAS100/1/38, … Continue reading →

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Catalogue Entries for Additional items from the Sheridan Morley Theatre Collection online

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Katie Giles

We are delighted to announce that catalogue entries for many more items in the Sheridan Morley Theatre Collection are now available on our online catalogue. The Sheridan Morley Theatre Collection holds a wealth of performing arts related material collected by … Continue reading →

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Change of web address for the Archives Catalogue

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Katie Giles

We’d like to inform our researchers and readers that the web address for our Archives online catalogue has changed to http://adlib.kingston.ac.uk .  Please update any bookmarks you may have for the site. If you have any questions or queries about … Continue reading →

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Christmas Closure of the Archives and Special Collections

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Katie Giles

Kingston University Archives and Special Collections will be closing for the Christmas break at 2.30pm on Friday, 21st December.  We will then reopen for appointments from 2nd January. Please remember that we do ask for appointments to consult the Archive … Continue reading →

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Items from the Archives and Special Collections Currently Unavailable

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Katie Giles

As part of our programme of conservation and preservation, the following items are currently with a conservator and therefore unavailable to researchers: From the Iris Murdoch Oxford Library: IML 140 Russian Exercises IML 853 The Religio Medici and Other Writings … Continue reading →

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Catalogue Records for the Letters from Iris Murdoch to Philippa Foot now online

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Katie Giles

We are delighted to announce that the catalogue records for the Letters from Iris Murdoch to Philippa Foot are now available on our online catalogue with the Collection reference KUAS100.  The letters were acquired as part of a project supported … Continue reading →

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Transcription Work on Iris Murdoch’s Letters

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Katie Giles

For anyone visiting the Archives and Special Collections recently, there is a good chance that they would have come across someone hard at work transcribing some of the many letters we hold by Iris Murdoch.  The letters that Murdoch wrote … Continue reading →

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Keeping it in Context- Why the History behind Archival Collections is so important

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Katie Giles

When anyone first starts looking into Archives, one word that keeps cropping up is context.  It’s the reason why archival catalogues (including our own) look the way they do- linking records together and displaying in a family tree style or … Continue reading →

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Items now returned from the Conservator

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Katie Giles

In January we announced that a number of items from our Collections had to be sent away for vital conservation work, and therefore were not available to researchers.  We are delighted to announce that all the items have now returned from … Continue reading →

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Cataloguing completed for copies of Publishing News

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Katie Giles

We are delighted to announce that our entire set of copies of Publishing News magazine has now been catalogued, and the catalogue records available to search online.  We hold a near complete set, and in total 1324 editions of the … Continue reading →

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