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The University of London Library during the Second World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7793398 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K E Attar (University of London), Karen Attar (0000-0002-0898-808X, Universidad de Londres, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 245 |
| Pages | 550-566 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-3471 • E-ISSN: 1468-2281 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2281.12132 |
| OpenAlex | W2263580177 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
During the Second World War, the Ministry of Information occupied London's Senate House. The University of London Library continued to function in the building, primarily to serve the Ministry. A wartime diary, memoirs and general correspondence supplement library committee reports and minutes to record this period of the library's history unusually richly, and this article uses archival sources to describe the library's operations during the war. It thereby not only opens up a hitherto unexplored area of the library's history, but sheds light on daily institutional life in central London, and on the human side of the Ministry of Information
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Business · Christian ministry · First world war · Library history · Library science · Memoir · Political science · Spanish Civil War · World War II · Computer Science · History · Law · Library Science and Administration
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |