19th Century Pamphlets

The purpose of the proposed project is to provide enhanced access to the collections of nineteenth-century pamphlets housed in the CURL libraries, and to raise awareness of the breadth and scope of this valuable research resource.

The realisation of the project’s vision will unlock significant and rare primary resources, many of which have hitherto been untapped, for the benefit of UK researchers from a wide range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. It will do this through the development of a Web based guide which will map strengths at collection level, and the completion of a programme of targeted retrospective conversion which will underpin the delivery of enhanced, co-ordinated, networked catalogue access, based on the national COPAC service and freely available to all researchers in UK HEIs

Collection Level Description

Another project deliverable is the creation of a web-based guide describing the partner libraries' pamphlet holdings at collection level. The guide will identify particular collection strengths and collections that complement each other. It will also provide hotlinks to the partner institutions' or any other relevant web pages.

Collection level description website: http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/rslp/pamphlets/collection.htm