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Notable acquisitions
UCL Special Collections acquired two significant collections this year, both from individuals with a long association with UCL - Professor Peter Ucko and Seton Sinclair Eustace.
Ucko archive
The Ucko archive was received in April 2009. Peter John Ucko (1938-2007)
had a long association with UCL, latterly as Professor for Comparative
Archaeology and Director of the UCL Institute of Archaeology from 1996
until 2005. The bequest consists of 12 boxes relating to his teaching
and research on a wide range of topics, along with several thousand
photographic slides and some film. It is hoped that further material
that is currently being used by former colleagues will eventually be
added to the archive.
Eustace donation
An earlier donation to the Phonetics Collection at UCL was relocated to
UCL Special Collections in March 2009. The donation from S.S. Eustace
(1930-2007), who gained the Diploma in Phonetics and who was especially
interested in pronunciation and spelling reform, consists of some 200
antiquarian dictionaries, dating from the 17th and early 18th century
onwards. There has been considerable interest in this collection from
academics in the UCL English, Phonetics and Linguistics departments, as
it represents and important resource for research.
International Community Eye Health Centre
The Joint Moorfields Eye Hospital & the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Library acquired the collection of the departmental library of the International Community Eye Health (ICEH) Centre collection. Although the ICEH is now based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in former years the department was at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, making this a valuable addition to the stock of the Joint Library.