All entries for October 2009

2nd edition of ELT Archive catalogue uploaded

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/elt_archive/catalogue/the_warwick_elt_archive_catalogue_2nd_edition_part_1.pdf

A second edition of the Warwick ELT Archive Catalogue (of published materials up to 1979) has now been uploaded to:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/elt_archive/catalogue

Here is an extract from the Preface which indicates what is new about this edition:

Further work on cataloguing, primarily by Sheila Verrier, has been greatly facilitated by a British Council research grant (Jan.-Dec. 2009). Cataloguing conventions have been rationalized, and a large number of additional items have been incorporated into the collection from donations or storage. The present edition of the catalogue lists all items on shelves (‘published items’) by alphabetical order of author. There are now 3,643 separate published items in the catalogue (almost all of them books), up from 2,727 items in the first edition of the catalogue.

Thanks, Sheila, for all your work on this, and thanks again to The British Council for the financial support which made this possible! We'll be announcing publication of Part 2 of the catalogue later this term (this will be a catalogue of genuinely 'archival' materials).

Richard Smith : 26 Oct 2009 12:53 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Updates since April

Lots of things to report - but little time to write about them here until now!:

* The British Council project, which is helping to enhance the Archive (see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/elt_archive/elt_projects) is continuing till the end of December. We're about to publish a second edition of our catalogue of published items (Sheila Verrier has been doing a lot of work cleaning up the existing catalogue and adding / shelving new items). The British Council (in the person of Adrian Odell) has been sending items to add to our collection of materials relating to ELT projects. And we've developed an online database of UK-funded (in particular British Council administered) ELT projects, which we've opened to public view at: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/CELTE/eltarchive/Archive/index.php.

* Dario Banegas, an MA student from Argentina, kindly volunteered to start cataloguing our collection of 'genuinely archival materials'. Working very quickly and efficiently, he has catalogued important items including materials relating to ELT in East Africa (1960s) donated by Chris Brumfit; materials relating to the development of the Strategies coursebooks and other learning materials, donated by Brian Abbs; and items from the Dakin Collection. We'll be publishing lists of these items on the website shortly.

* The British Council has borrowed a number of items from us with a view to scanning them for their Teaching Engish website, as part of 75th anniversary celebrations.

Richard Smith : 22 Oct 2009 13:15 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem