UCL Rare-Books Club: new acquisitions for UCL’s rare-book collections

IN PERSON in the Object-Based Learning Lab, UCL Bloomsbury campus. Drop in any time between 12.30pm and 2pm. Directions will be sent to you in your booking confirmation and reminder emails.

New acquisitions for UCL Rare Books

Each year we add a modest number of items to our collections of rare print. Some of these are purchases, particularly to complement holdings identified in our ongoing Liberating The Collections initiative to broaden the visibility of under-represented voices in the collections. Some new additions are generous donations. Others have been identified from among UCL Library Services' other collections as suitable for inclusion in our rare-book collections.

Join us to see some of these new additions and talk to Special Collections staff members Erika Delbecque (Head Of Rare Books), Tabitha Tuckett (Rare-Books And Academic Liaison Librarian) and Chelsie Mok (Teaching And Collections Co-ordinator).

We shall also be joined by Madeline Lowry, studying for an MA in the History Of The Book at the University Of London's Institute Of English Studies. Madeline has completed a work placement with us in which she researched and selected 18th- and 19th-century books on Italian literature from the library of the Italian scholar Frederick May (1921-1976) for accession to our rare-book collections. She will be presenting a selection of these at this event.

UCL Rare-Books Club aims to promote UCL’s Special Collections for research, and to facilitate conversations between curators, research students and professional researchers working on the collections, but sessions are open to all. They are programmed and chaired by Dr. Tabitha Tuckett, UCL Rare-Books And Academic Liaison Librarian. Details of the full programme will be posted on our UCL Rare-Books Club Eventbrite listings