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Allan Recordings

 Fonds
Reference code: AU 16

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of recordings of interviews about the book trade with librarians and booksellers by Alastair Allan in 1974. The librarians represent a range of institutions including the universities of Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, East Anglia, Edinburgh, Hull, Leicester, Newcastle, Salford, Stirling, and polytechnics at Sheffield, Newcastle, Wolverhampton and Kingston. Booksellers include representatives from the university bookshops at Edinburgh and Stirling, and from Daley’s, Haigh and Hochland, and Willshaw’s.

For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below

Dates

  • Creation: 1974

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Available to all researchers, by appointment

Conditions Governing Use

Recordings not to be copied.

Copyright

Various copyright holders

Biographical / Historical

Alastair Allan was a member of staff at the University of Sheffield Library from 1977 to 2014, having previously worked at the University of Hull Library and the British Library Lending Division at Boston Spa, after graduating from the College of Librarianship in the University of Wales in 1971.

Extent

1 Box(es) (1 box containing 12 audiocassettes )

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

Chronological

Custodial History

Donated by Alastair Allan in 2013

Description rules
International Standard for Archival Description - General
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

Contact:
Western Bank Library
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2TN United Kingdom
+44 (0) 114 222 7299