English Literature Training Day for Research Postgraduates (Late 19th Century to the present day) ( Study Day )
Date : 20 Oct 2008
10am – 5pm
Venue: British Library
Presented by:
Dr Joanna Newman (Head of Strategic Partnerships, Higher Education, BL), Jamie Andrews (Head of Modern Literary Manuscripts)
Description:
In a new initiative, English research postgraduates from across the UK are invited to attend a specially tailored day of talks, workshops and networking opportunities at the British Library. The day will include a general introduction to relevant material and sources including reference, curator talks, how to get a Reader Pass.
This day is being held in collaboration with the Institute of English Studies.
Programme
9.30 Registration and coffee
10.15 Introduction to the day (Dr Joanna Newman, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Higher Education, BL)
10.30 Overview of Literary Collections in the British Library (Jamie Andrews, Head of Modern Literary Manuscripts)
10.45 Introduction to Electronic Resources
11.30 Tea/Coffee
11.45 Workshops
12.45 Lunch
13.45 Workshops
15.00 Tea/Coffee
15.15 Panel discussion
16.15-17.00 Drinks and networking/Close
Participants will have the choice of the following workshops which will be repeated in the afternoon:
11.45 – 12.45 & 13.45 – 14.45:
Sound Archive live recording programmes – Steve Cleary (Curator of Drama and Literature, Sound Archive Curatorial)
Poetry collections -including small press and little magazines – Richard Price (Head of Modern British Collections)
Modern Literary manuscripts – Rachel Foss (Curator Modern Literary Manuscripts)
Literatures in English at the British Library – Dorian Hayes (Curator – American Collections)
Nineteenth century British collections: a Question and Answer session – Elizabeth James (Head of British Collections 1801-1914)
Modern Drama Collections – Kathryn Johnson (Curator of Modern Drama Collections)
The day is primarily aimed at 1st year postgraduates and will:
• Introduce you to the range of research materials available in the British Library
• Enable you to attend special workshops
• Show you how to access online and electronic catalogues, and carry out bibliographic research on your topic
• Introduce you to specialist curators at the Library
• Give you an opportunity to meet and network with postgraduate students from other universities across the UK
