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School of Oriental and African Studies

School of Oriental and African Studies Library Book Exchange


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 226830

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: School of Oriental and African Studies Library Book Exchange

Date(s): 1912-1928

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 4 boxes

Name of creator(s): School of Oriental Studies | Library

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The School of Oriental Studies (later the School of Oriental and African Studies) was founded as part of the University of London to address inadequacy of teaching in Asian languages in London - hitherto dispersed among various colleges of London University and other institutions - and to cater for the study of Asian history, geography, culture, law and literature, as well as including a library. It opened in 1917, occupying premises in Finsbury Circus formerly occupied by the London Institution (which had amalgamated with the Society of Arts in 1906). Its library received substantial collections of books transferred from other London institutions.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence and papers, 1912-1928, on the School of Oriental Studies (later School of Oriental and African Studies) Library book exchange, relating to arrangements concerning the disposition of books on Oriental studies between the School of Oriental Studies, University of London, King's College London, University College London, the Institute of Historical Research, India Office, and London Institution, including some named collections or items, among them the collections of Robert Morrison and William Marsden.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Database.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred to SOAS Library.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

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: Apr 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Asian cultures | National cultures
Bibliology | Information/library research
Books | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Information/library management | Information/library administration
Library collections | Information/library administration
Collections

Personal names
Marsden | William | 1754-1836 | orientalist and numismatist
Morrison | Robert | 1782-1834 | missionary to China

Corporate names
India Office | Library
King's College London | Library
London Institution
School of Oriental Studies | Library
University College London | Library
University of London Library
University of London | Institute of Historical Research x Institute of Historical Research

Places