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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,...

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A collection of books from the personal library of Lord Dainton. The collection is intended to complement and support the Dainton Papers.

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The papers of Lord Dainton, scientist, university academic and administrator, and chairman of national committees on science, higher education and libraries, circa 1930 to 1997. The collection consists of the papers retained by Lord Dainton during his long and distinguished career.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External Documents section below.

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Publications and papers from the work of Geoffrey Ford (1942-2011), University Librarian. The material is made up of reports, journals, newsletters, papers and books either authored by Geoffrey Ford or from his personal collection.

For further details of this collection please see the external documents section below.

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A collection of photographs, documents and artefacts illustrating notable persons, events and buildings in the history of Sheffield University Library.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.