Collection BPL - Beckett Park Library Collection

Zone d'identification

Cote

GB 2830 BPL

Titre

Beckett Park Library Collection

Date(s)

  • 1851 - 2010 (Production)

Niveau de description

Collection

Étendue matérielle et support

24 boxes containing paper documents, photographs, printed matter, textiles, metal objects. 4 wood and metal objects.

Zone du contexte

Nom du producteur

(fl. 1912 - 1996)

Histoire administrative

The City of Leeds Training College was formed in 1907. In 1913 a purpose built training college was opened in the grounds of the former Kirkstall Grange estate bought from the Beckett family. In 1933 Carnegie Hall was built on the same estate, to house the Carnegie College of Physical Training. A library was formed in the City of Leeds Training College and from 1912 this was housed in the Educational Block (today known as the James Graham Building). The hostels on the training college site each housed a Library but how extensive these were has not been established. From 1933 onwards Carnegie College had its own separate Library in Carnegie Hall. In 1968 the training college by then renamed City of Leeds College of Education was merged with the renamed Carnegie College of Physical Education to form the City of Leeds and Carnegie College and the separate libraries were combined. The College merged with Leeds Polytechnic in 1976 and the Library was retained at Beckett Park. In 1992 Leeds Polytechnic became Leeds Metropolitan University. The Library was renamed Beckett Park Learning Centre in 1996, in 2004 it became Headingley Campus Library.

Nom du producteur

(fl. 1965-1985)

Notice biographique

Joan Newiss was a senior member of staff at the Beckett Park Library which served the City of Leeds Training College and later Leeds Polytechnic..

Nom du producteur

(fl. 1990-)

Notice biographique

Currently Principal Information Assistant for Archives within Libraries and Learning Innovation. Was responsible for the present incarnation of the archive bringing together disparate parts of the University's history and heritage under the umbrella of the Archive and Special Collections.Began working for Leeds Polytechnic in 1990.

Nom du producteur

(fl. 1983 - 2010)

Notice biographique

Retired Principal Lecturer, Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education, Leeds Metropolitan University. Studied at Leeds Polytechnic and joined the staff in 1983. Professional interests include history in Primary Schools. Major achievement was to negotiate the use of the 1881 Census in schools and colleges during the 1990s.
Supported the fledgling archive by alerting potential users to its existence and facilitating regular donations.

Histoire archivistique

This artificial collection is based around material of historical interest housed by the Library at Beckett Park Campus later renamed Headingley Campus. The core items were entrusted to Joan Newiss, (Librarian) by Dr L. Connell (Principal), E. Exwood and P. Hamilton (senior members of staff) and by students of the college. Newiss records that the material was never part of the Library collection but was simply stored there for convenience. At some point possibly during the 1960s an attempt was made to formalise the material as an Archive Collection and some items bear markings and reference numbers from this period. Newiss also complied a detailed Calander of the material ca. mid 1980s. Robin Bateman (Librarian) and Newiss were the senior staff at the Library during this period. During the late 1970s and early 1980s a great deal of archival material was passed on to the Leeds District Archive at Sheepscar, the rationale being that the material made up part of the Local Education Authority records. The core material that makes up this collection was never passed on to Sheepscar and in 1994 Library managers decided that this should remain with the University as part of its heritage. Generally, substantial amount of heritage material was scattered throughout the Beckett Park site and an informal archive was developed in 1997 around the Newiss core holding by Keith Rowntree in an attempt to collect and preserve this historical material spread around the Campus. This archive in 2008 was formalised as the Archive and Special Collections with a University wide remit to collect and preserve the University's heritage.

Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

Beckett Park Library, Andy Bowles, Keith Rowntree

Zone du contenu et de la structure

Portée et contenu

Collection mainly focuses on material generated by the City of Leeds Training College and Carnegie Physical Training College. These include handbooks and prospectuses of the colleges dating from 1913 to 1970s, documents relating to the early years of Carnegie College, Carnegie College trip to Berlin Olympics in 1936. training college magazine ‘The Owl’ from 1930s, donations from alumni from various period, military items from 1940s when college was an Army Training Centre.

Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation

Accroissements

None expected

Mode de classement

Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation

Conditions d'accès

Conditions de reproduction

Langue des documents

  • anglais
  • allemand

Écriture des documents

    Notes de langue et graphie

    Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques

    Instruments de recherche

    Zone des sources complémentaires

    Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux

    Existence et lieu de conservation des copies

    Unités de description associées

    Descriptions associées

    Zone des notes

    Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)

    Mots-clés

    Mots-clés - Sujets

    Mots-clés - Noms

    Mots-clés - Genre

    Zone du contrôle de la description

    Identifiant de la description

    Identifiant du service d'archives

    Règles et/ou conventions utilisées

    ISAD(G) 2nd ed.

    Statut

    Niveau de détail

    Dates de production, de révision, de suppression

    January 2006, rev. June 2007, rev. June 2013

    Langue(s)

      Écriture(s)

        Sources

        Note de l'archiviste

        Compiled by Keith Rowntree

        Zone des entrées