IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS1135
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Richnell, Donovan (1911-1994)
Date(s): c1922-c1991
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 11 boxes
Name of creator(s): Richnell | Donovan Thomas | 1911-1994 | librarian
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Donovan Richnell was born in Bedford Park, London in 1911 and was educated at St. Paul's School and Corpus Christi, Cambridge. His war service included a posting to the Far East with the Royal Navy. He was successively; Sub-Librarian at the Royal Society of Medicine, 1946-1949; Deputy Librarian, London University Library, 1949-1960; Librarian, Reading University, 1960-1967; Director and Goldsmith's Librarian, London University Library, 1967-1974; Director General of the British Library Reference Division, 1974-1979.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Notebooks, [1922-1991]; manuscripts including "Emancipated Women", "Heart-Shaped Ladies"; Library Association papers, 1959-1972; correspondence with Philip Larkin, 1965; diary, 1966-1970.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Unsorted
Conditions governing access:
Open for research
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Box listed
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Deposited at the Library by Don Richnell's literary executor.
Immediate source of acquisition:
See above
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Richard Temple.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2007/03/11