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Leeds University Library's Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections are one of the five Designated collections held by the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds.The collections contain an extensive range of international books, manuscripts and archives relating to Gypsy, Traveller and Roma culture.
University of Leeds. / 53.80722°N 1.55167°W / 53.80722; -1.55167. The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science.
Brotherton Library. / 53.8080°N 1.5534°W / 53.8080; -1.5534. The Brotherton Library is a 1936 Grade II listed Neoclassical building with some art deco fittings, located on the main campus of the University of Leeds. It was designed by the firm of Lanchester & Lodge, and is named after Edward Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton, who in ...
The Leeds Library is the oldest surviving subscription library of its type in the UK. It was founded in 1768, [1] following an advertisement placed in the Leeds Intelligencer earlier that year. The first secretary was Joseph Priestley. [2] In 1779, James Boswell wrote, "In Leeds, where one would not expect it, there is a very good public ...
University of Leeds The Edward Boyle library at the University of Leeds was named in his honour. Boyle was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds in 1970. He was a Trustee of the British Museum from 1970 to 1981 and Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of UK Universities from 1977 to 1979.
The origin of the author–date style is attributed to a paper by Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey professor of anatomy and director of the zoological laboratory at Harvard University, who may have copied it from the cataloguing system used then and now by the library of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
UoL Library: Cookery Collection. Leeds University Library's Cookery Collection is one of the five Designated collections held by the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. It comprises an extensive collection of international books, manuscripts and archives relating to food, cooking and culinary culture.
Research Libraries UK ( RLUK) (formerly CURL) [1] comprises 35 university libraries, 3 national libraries, and the Wellcome Collection in the United Kingdom and Ireland. [2] Its aim is to increase the ability of research libraries to share resources among themselves. The holdings of these libraries provided the basis of the Copac online catalogue.