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Library and Learning Services. The Richmal Crompton Collection. What’s in the Richmal Crompton Collection?. Richmal Crompton’s personal library Many editions and translations of the William stories A set of her novels for adult readers Travel notebooks Notes of ideas for stories
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Library and Learning Services The Richmal Crompton Collection
What’s in the Richmal Crompton Collection? • Richmal Crompton’s personal library • Many editions and translations of the William stories • A set of her novels for adult readers • Travel notebooks • Notes of ideas for stories • Radio scripts • Fan mail
Some uncorrected proofs and many editions of the different William books
Developing the Collection • Storage • Conservation • Cataloguing • Promotion • Exploitation
Storage: The Special Collections reading room, showing Richmal Crompton’s personal library
The reading room, with a view of the many editions of William titles
Documents are kept in the climate-controlled archive store, installed Summer 2007, and will be brought in to the reading room on request.
Storage of some of the papers before they came to Roehampton…
To search the Roehampton Library catalogue, go to http://prism.talis.com/roehampton/
Promotion of the Collection started at a launch of Roehampton Archives and Special Collections, when Paul Ashbee was interviewed by Roehampton television services (TVR)
Other ways the Collection will be advertised will be through • Articles in journals and magazines • Inclusion in online gateways to archives • www.archiveshub.ac.uk • www.aim25.ac.uk • Promotion within the local community in South West London
Exploitation of the Collection The Collection has already been used by Roehampton students: • Children’s Literature Masters students, studying the module on British Children’s Literature 1900-1960 • English Literature Masters students in a session on archives • There is interest from MA Children’s Literature students in using the Collection for dissertations • There is research interest in the novels for adults