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Portrait of Sir John MacAlister
(1856 – 1925), Secretary and librarian of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, holding a pipe.
Date: 1917
Source: Wellcome Collection
© Wellcome Collection

Minutes of the meeting discussing the proposal for the institution of the School of Librarianship at University College.
Date: 5 March 1918
Source: UCL Special Collections, Records Office UCLCA/CC
© UCL Library Services

Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) was UCL Professor of Egyptology between 1892 and 1933. He is the founder of the scientific method of archaeological investigation that is still practiced in Egypt today.
Date: 1918
Source: UCL Special Collections, College Archives photographs
© UCL Digital Media,
Mary Hinkley

Appendix I

Appendix to minutes of the meeting held on 5 March 1918 discussing the proposal for the institution of a School for the training of librarians.
Date: 21 February 1918
Source: UCL Special Collections
© UCL Library Services

Decision to set up a joint committee with power to prepare a scheme and to submit it to the Carnegie Trustees.
Date: 4 February 1919
Source: UCL Special Collections, Records Office UCLCA/CC
© UCL Library Services

Raymond Wilson Chambers (1874–1942) studying books in a library. He was Librarian at UCL from 1901 to 1922, and Assistant Professor in the English Department, 1904–14.
Date: 1919
Source: UCL Special Collections, Records Office: College Archives,
photograph DC 44
© University College London

Report of the joint committee on the Proposed School of Librarianship.
Date: 4 February 1919
Source: UCL Special Collections
© UCL Library Services

Now known as the Donaldson Library, the General Library was built on the site of the unfinished UCL Great Hall.
Date: c. 1910
Source: Special Collections, College Archives Photographs UCLCA
© UCL Library Services

Andrew Carnegie set up the Carnegie Trust in 1913 to improve the wellbeing of the people of the United Kingdom and Ireland. In its early decades the Trust focussed primarily upon the building of libraries, reflecting Carnegie’s strong commitment to extending equality of opportunities through learning. By the 1920s the Trust had become a major supporter of adult education.
Date: 1919
Source: Carnegie Trust
© Carnegie Trust

Ernest Albert Baker (1869–1941) was an author, and editor of English fiction, dictionaries, and librarianship. He wrote a standard reference The History of the English Novel first published in ten volumes between 1924 and 1939.
Source: UCL Main Library, Ref. K3 L18
© UCL Library Services

The University College London calendar for the session 1919-20 showing the start of the
new course in Librarianship
on 1 October 1919.
Date: 1919–20
Source: UCL Special Collections
© UCL Library Services

Appendix I to the minutes dated
3 February 1920.

Regulations regarding students admission and course of study.
Date: 22 January 1920
Source: UCL Special Collections, Records Office UCLCA/CC
© UCL Library Services

Appendix 4

Description of the first cohort of students at the School of Librarianship, timetable and lectures.
Date: 8 January 1920
Source: UCL Special Collections, Records Office UCLCA/CC
© UCL Library Services

Photograph of the 1929-1930 student cohort in the School
of Librarianship.
Date: 1929–30
Source: UCL Special Collections, Records Office UCLCA/CC
© UCL Library Services

Council Minutes

The minutes report on Sir John MacAlister’s donation of twelve guineas to provide a bursary to the most deserving student.
Date: 6 January 1920
Source: UCL Special Collections, Records Office UCLCA/CC
© UCL Library Services

UCL Officer Training Corps

Prince George inspecting University College Officer Training Corps on his arrival to open the Preliminary Training School for Nurses.
Date: 1930
Source: UCH Photograph Albums
© UCL Digital Media, Mary Hinkley

School of Librarianship annual dinner invite and annotated menu and toasts for the School of Librarianship Annual Dinner in 1930.
Author: Norman King
Date: 1930
Source: UCL Special Collections, SLAIS/2010/23
© UCL Library Services

UCL students staging a political demonstration in 1933.
Date: 1933
Source: UCL College Archives. Photographs
© UCL Digital Media, Mary Hinkley

Sandbags around the Private Patients’ Wing of University College Hospital in 1939.
Date: 1939
Source: UCH Photograph Albums
© UCL Digital Media, Mary Hinkley

Typescript memo “The Library”, considering the necessity to remove books of outstanding value from the library to safeguard them in the event of war.
Date: 28 March 1939
Source: UCL Special Collections: MS ADD 393/3
© UCL Library Services

Part of a series of photographs showing the effects of air raids on University College during the Second World War.
Date: 1940
Source: UCL College Archives. Photographs. BD (9)
© UCL Digital Media, Mary Hinkley

Library bookcase after an air raid

A fire damaged Library room after an air raid during the Second World War.
Date: 1940
Source: UCL College Archives. Photographs. BD (12)
© UCL Library Services, Alpha Press

Minutes of Meeting, 3.B.

The minutes include information on J. D. Cowley, Director of the School of Librarianship from 1934 to 1944. Cowley had resigned his post on 31 July 1944 on receiving appointment as Goldsmiths’ Librarian to the University of London, and was then seconded to RAF where he became a Squadron Leader. He died in the war.
Date: 30 January 1945
Source: UCL Special Collections
© UCL Library Services

The secretary of the British Records Association, Sir (Charles) Hilary Jenkinson (1882-1961).
Author: Walter Stoneman
Date: 18 July 1949
Source: National Portrait Gallery x190108
© National Portrait Gallery, London

British Records Association

Letter from Sir Hilary Jenkinson proposing the institution of a Training School of Archivists and an experimental Repair Shop and School of Instruction with outlines of requirements.
Date: 21 August 1945
Source: University of London Archives
© Images reproduced by courtesy of Senate House Library, University of London

Provost Papers

Letter from D. R. Pye, University Provost, to Jenkinson positively acknowledging the suggestion for the institution of a Training School of Archivists.
Date: 23 August 1945
Source: University of London Archives
© Images reproduced by courtesy of Senate House Library, University of London

Minutes of Meeting, 3.E.

Report on the Senate resolution that Mr Raymond Irwin be appointed to the Directorship of the School of Librarianship from 1 October 1945.
Date: 6 November 1945
Source: UCL Special Collections
© UCL Library Services

Minutes of Meeting, 5. K

Appendix XII reports the total number of students and the aim to reduce admissions in the 1947-48 session. It refers that no non-graduate Diploma students have been admitted since 1945 and that a high numbers of applicants and successful students find good positions on completion of the course. A new Diploma in Archive Administration is to be set up.
Date: 4 November 1947
Source: UCL Special Collections
© UCL Library Services

Minutes of College Committee, 46.

The Prize proposal includes requirements and regulations in line with the donor’s intentions to promote the study of Archive Administration.
Date: 3 February 1948
Source: UCL Special Collections
© UCL Library Services

College Calendar 1948-49

Membership of the Students Association is open to all present students of the School.
Date: 1948–49
Source: UCL Special Collections
© UCL Library Services

Minutes of College Committee, 48 A.

An Easter vacation course in Denmark is organised in 1950 for present and past students.
Date: 7 February 1950
Source: UCL Special Collections
© UCL Library Services

Minutes of College Committee, 53 C.

Recommendation to the Senate that title of Honorary Fellow of University College London be granted to Sir Hilary Jenkinson CBE MA FSA Deputy Keeper of Public Records.
Date: 7 February 1950
Source: UCL Special Collections
© UCL Library Services

S. R. Ranjanathan (1892-1972) was a librarian and mathematician from India. He is considered to be the father of Library Science, Documentation, and Information Science in India. In 1957 he was elected an honorary member of the International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) and was made a vice-president for life of the Library Association of Great Britain.
Copyright unknown

Minutes of College Committee, 8 F.

The minutes detail activities carried out by the School in the session 1949-1950.
Date: 1950
Source: UCL Special Collections
© UCL Library Services

Report on the School 1951-1956.

This list shows places of employment after graduation
from the School.
Date: 1957
Source: UCL Special Collections, SLAIS/2010/23
© UCL Library Services

Occasional Publications no. 11

Report on the work of the School for the period 1956-1962.
Date: 1962
Source: UCL Special Collections
© UCL Library Services

Occasional Publications No. 14

Students’ bibliography subjects.
Date: 1968
Source: UCL Special Collections, SLAIS/2010/23
© UCL Library Services

School of Library Archive and Information Studies plaque, originally attached to the Henry Morley building and then moved to Foster Court in the late 1990s.
Date: 1972
Source: UCL
© University College London

Meeting of the College Council in the 1970s.
Date: 1970s
Source: UCL Library/UCL Records Office/UCL Archive Pictures
© UCL Digital Media, Mary Hinkley

MSc in Information Science prospectus.
Date: 1975
Source: UCL Special Collections, uncatalogued printed material collection
© University College London

In 1983 UCL students built a hut from scrap materials on the steps of St Martin’s in the Fields to show passers-by how black South Africans lived in shanty towns like Crossroads.
Date: October 1983
Source: AAM Archive, Bodleian Library MSS AAM 2412
© Bernadette Vallely/AAM Archives

The aim of the International Records Management Trust was to provide consultancy services, training, education, and research into records management across the world. The Trust closed in 2019.

Photo of a Higher Education Careers event held at the Institute of Education in Bedford Way, London.
Date: 24 February 2019
Source: UCL Department of Information Studies
© UCL Department of Information Studies

Minutes of the ARMReN research network project board meeting.
Date: 20 June 2006
Source: UCL Department of Information Studies
© UCL Department of Information Studies

First logo of the UCL Centre for Publishing.
Date: 2006
Source: UCL Centre for Publishing
© UCL Department of Information Studies

Natalie Ceeney delivers the first Jenkinson Lecture lecture “60 years on: the role of the 21st century National Archive vs Jenkinson’s model.”
Date: 2006
Source: UCL Department of Information Studies
© UCL Department of Information Studies

Publicity for Graduate Open Day.
Date: 21 November 2012
Source: UCL Department of Information Studies
© UCL Department of Information Studies

Logo of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities.
Date: 2010
Source: UCL Department of Information Studies
© UCL Department of Information Studies

The Multi-Modal Digitisation Suite is a shared facility for teaching and research in digitisation technologies.
Date: 2011
Source: UCL Department of Information Studies
© UCL Department of Information Studies

UCL Archives and Records Management students Facebook page.
Date: 2014–2015
Source: UCL Department of Information Studies
© UCL Department of Information Studies

Image of Edison Multipolar Dynamo used to publicise the Digital Humanities course at the Department of Information Studies.
Date: 1891
Source: American Street Railway Association
© British Library / Science Source