By: Anne Summers

Anne Summers — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:28:10 +0000

It is a travesty of the truth to say that LSE ‘plans to incorporate the archives into its own library, shutting down public access and eroding the library’s independence’. No institution had the will or the capacity to run The Women’s Library in its purpose-built premises, which is very sad. BUT LSE is going to enormous trouble and expense to dedicate a reading room+exhibition space+open-shelf access to TWL@LSE, and its four full-time archivists will be able to deal with the backlong which for years has blocked access to too many of TWL’s archival collections. Reader access to all the collections will be on the same terms as at TWL and other public institions such as London Metropolitan Archives (the former Greater London Record Office) which all sorts of non-academic groups and individuals use with no trouble at all (actually, rather more than was the case at TWL)

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By: Anne Summers