Last updated |
12th January 2009 |
Name of library |
Stonyhurst College |
Address |
Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 9PZ |
Telephone |
01254 826345 |
Fax |
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E-mail |
d.knight@stonyhurst.ac.uk |
Website |
http://www.stonyhurst.ac.uk |
Alternative names |
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Contact & Job Title |
Mrs S. Wademon / Mr. D. N. Knight, Librarian / Archivist |
Purpose & main user community of the library |
College staff, Society of Jesus visitors, visiting academics by appointment |
Terms of access |
Contact the above by letter, e-mail or telephone |
Opening hours |
Unspecified but confined to weekdays |
Disabled access |
Wheelchair access not possible due to first floor location and no lift |
Lending to other libraries & visitors |
Occasionally (for exhibitions). Facility not available. |
Number of volumes |
5,000 |
Periodicals – Back Issues |
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Current Periodicals |
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Other materials |
3 msss |
Volumes added per year |
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Coverage |
Late C16 and C17. Mostly Catholic recusancy. An important collection. Also late C15 and early C16. |
Special Collections |
St. Omers Press: 1608-1640; Mawdsley Bequest: old Catholic books, mostly controversial and devotional works. |
Manuscripts |
C17, mostly works of early Jesuits |
Research resource |
Catholic recusancy |
Catalogue Type |
Card: author. Subject catalogue for mss. Odd notebooks and scraps of paper |
URL of catalogue |
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Other facilities |
Photocopying |
Full Time Staff |
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Part Time Staff |
1 |
Voluntary Staff |
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Changes in next five years affecting the above |
Complete overhaul including comprehensive cataloguing – likely to be 10 years before completed. |
Anything else about the library |
Apologies for the incompleteness of this entry, but the whole library complex (containing c.50,000 books and innumberable mss) needs a complete revamp. At present we are uncertain about what we have and a new policy of acquisitions etc needs to be devised. We now have an official librarian but she will be concerned with the pupils library rather than the house library which contains the theological material. |