CD‐ROM at King's College Library: use and evaluation of OCLC's Search CD450

VINE ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Pope ◽  
Adrian Machiraju
Keyword(s):  
Cd Rom ◽  
King's College ◽  
Library Use ◽  
College Library

Catalogue of Early Printed Music in Aberdeen Libraries Supplement, 1979–1988

1990 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 170-176
Author(s):  
Barry Cooper ◽  
Richard Turbet
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
Early Music ◽  
University Library ◽  
King's College ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
Printed Music ◽  
Roger Williams ◽  
College Library ◽  
Department Of Music ◽  
Private Collections

This article is a supplement to Barry Cooper's catalogue of 1978 (see below, References). No musical items published before 1801 have entered Aberdeen Public Library since 1979. Of the four Aberdeen University collections mentioned below, Dep is in the library of the Department of Music, while SB and Lib R are in King's College Library. In the course of his original introduction, Barry Cooper mentioned the University's “copyright collection” (p.4), and the inadequacy of its catalogue. Richard Turbet is compiling a checklist of the contents of this collection's 297 volumes, now located within Aberdeen University Library and known as The Stationers’ Hall Collection. As to private collections, Roger Williams has catalogued those in Grampian Region in the care of the National Trust for Scotland, and the catalogues are being prepared for publication. There is early music in the collections at Castle Fraser, Drum Castle, Leith Hall and Brodie Castle. The Montcoffer House private collection, listed in Appendix 3 of the original catalogue, is now housed at Aberdeen University Library MS 2861.

An evaluation of ERIC on CD‐ROM in a college library

1989 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Pope
Keyword(s):  
Cd Rom ◽  
College Library

Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield Writing the ‘sixth act’

Jean Rhys ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
King's College ◽  
Picture Of Dorian Gray ◽  
New Imperialism ◽  
Dorian Gray ◽  
College Library ◽  
British Colonies

Jean Rhys (1890-1979) and Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) were born within two years of each other in what were then British colonies under the New Imperialism. Rhys’s relative longevity and the fact that her first publication, the story ‘Vienne’ appeared in 1924 have obscured their contemporaneousness. Both wrote about failed love and affairs in England, Rhys in diaries she wrote in the 1910s, which would be reworked as ‘Triple Sec’, an unpublished 1924 novel, and revised as Voyage in the Dark (1934), and Mansfield in the manuscript stories ‘Juliet’ (begun in 1906) and ‘A Little Episode’ (1909), recently unearthed in the King’s College Library. The epigragh to ‘A Little Episode’ is from Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray; Rhys alludes to the same two sentences in the opening sentence of Voyage in the Dark. This chapter draws out the resonances of their allusions to Wilde, and locates the texts as engagements with literary decadence.

The Law Collection at King's College, London

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-53
Keyword(s):  
Office Building ◽  
Public Records ◽  
King's College ◽  
The Law ◽  
College Library

Ann Lees explains the background to the move of Kings College Library from the Strand to its new headquarters in the very imposing former Public Records Office building in Chancery Lane and shares with us some of the delights of her new residence.

Robert Boyle’s Head Master at Eton

1958 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-114 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Robert Boyle ◽  
King's College ◽  
Thomas Gray ◽  
College Library

Robert Boyle went to Eton with his elder brother, Francis, in October 1635, at the age of eight years and nine months. The two boys left in November 1638 (1) . They were both Commensals of the second table. The Commensals, in accordance with the Statutes of the Founder, received their tuition free, but paid for their meals which they took in College Hall with the Scholars. Those who were sons of noblemen or of particular friends of the College sat ‘at the second table’. They lodged with one or other o f the Fellows, and, although they were taught in school by the Head Master and the Usher or Lower Master, it is clear that they often also received some kind of special tuition from the Fellow with whom they lived. Some facts about Robert Boyle’s life at Eton may be found in Dorothea Townsend’s Life and letters of the great Earl of Cork (Boyle’s father), in Logan Pearsall Smith’s Life and letters of Sir Henry Wotton , who was Provost of Eton at the time, and especially in Boyle’s autobiographical sketch of his early life. This was incorporated by Thomas Birch in the Life which prefaced Boyle’s complete works, first published in 1744. This sketch, written when Boyle was still quite a young man, gives a good deal of information about his days at Eton. In fact, there is no other boy at Eton about whom we know half as much as about Robert Boyle, until we come to Thomas Gray and Horace Walpole a hundred years later. Of Boyle while he was at Eton there remains one relic. The College Library contains a book which belonged to him, a copy of Cicero’s Epistolae familiares , with the Scholia of Paulus Manutius, printed at Paris by Robert Estienne in 1550. On the title-page are the names of two previous owners and the name ‘Boyle’ scribbled up the margin. On the last page is the inscription, ‘Robert Boyle his booke witnes by John Akester’, the second name being in a different hand (2) . It is obviously a schoolboy’s book. Nothing is known of John Akester, who was a Colleger at Eton and Boyle’s exact contemporary, though five years older, except that he went up to King’s College, Cambridge, in 1639 and left it a year later. This is the only book known with Boyle’s signature in it, although he eventually accumulated a library of over 3,000 volumes (3) .

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