GREATER ACCESS TO PUBLISHING

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 LMA/4462/L
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: GREATER ACCESS TO PUBLISHING
Date(s)	: 1987-1989
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.08 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Greater Access to Publishing | campaign group

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Greater Access to Publishing (GAP) was a campaigning body, set up in 1987 and affiliated to Women in Publishing. They were an independent group of women from various cultural backgrounds working in the publishing industry. Their companies included The Women's Press, Virago, Longmans, Harrap Columbus, Black Ink, Bogle-L'Ouverture, Arawide and Springboard. They aimed to highlight publishing as an option for Black women. They held meetings on the first Thursday of each month.

The group held a One Day Conference to highlight which offered workshops on various aspects of publishing and personal histories of women in publishing.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Greater Access to Publishing, including minutes of meetings, funding applications, conference planning notes, and packs. Also press cutting from The Bookseller about the organisation and letterhead.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

These records are arranged into one series: LMA/4462/L/001: Correspondence.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records remains with the depositors.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Their archive collections were the first deposit from the African-Caribbean community to be made to the London Metropolitan Archives, in 2005, with additional deposits since that time.

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Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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:
November 2009 to February 2010