British Library of Political and Economic Science

Title: British Library of Political and Economic Science

Description: The British Library of Political and Economic Science is the library of the London School of Economics. It currently contains around four million printed volumes. The Library's scope is the social sciences in their broadest definition and it is one of the largest libraries in the world devoted exclusively to this range of subjects. There are particularly subject strengths in accounting and finance, anthropology, economics, government, history, international relations, law, media and communication, social psychology and sociology.
Alongside the monograph and serials holdings the Library has particular strengths in the following areas:

• Pamphlets relating to politics, economics issued by pressure groups, political parties, trade unions and other individuals and never republished. The collection dates from the nineteenth century to the present day.
• Government documentation from throughout the world.
• Statistics, both current and historical, produced by national governments and intergovernmental organisations.
• Intergovernmental organisations including the United Nations, European Union and World Bank.
• UK Government information, including parliamentary and departmental publications.
• Archives covering modern British political, economic and social history, the history of the social sciences with particular reference to Economics, Politics and Social Anthropology.

Outside of the monograph, pamphlet and serial collections where items can be traced through the Library catalogues, the Library has a particular concentration of materials relevant to Caribbean Studies in the following areas:

• Official publications: these cover all the countries of the wider Caribbean area including non-English language area: approximately 150 linear metres.
• Caribbean Commission and CARICOM publications: approximately 2 linear metres
• Current and historical statistics: covering all the Caribbean area, 27 linear metres.

Archives collections:

• Clarke Edith fl 1930-1960, anthropologist: field notes and working files for a study of marriage and parentage in Jamaica published as 'My mother who fathered me: a study of the family in three selected communities in Jamaica', London Allen and Unwin, 1957. CLOSED
• Coll Misc. 0266: account book of a Trinidad sugar planter, 1719-1819. 1 volume.
• Colonial Social Science Research Council, 1843-1963.

Material pertaining to the history of Black and Asian people in the UK will be found across all the Library's holdings, in particular in the monograph and pamphlet collections.

Strengths: The main strengths of the collections are in the area of economics, economic history, social policy, sociology, government publications and statistics.
With regard to Caribbean studies the main subjects covered include: Economics; Economic History; Human Rights; Politics and International Studies; Social Policy and Administration; History; Sociology; Women's Studies.
For Black and Asian history in Britain the subjects include: Economic and Social History; Employment; Health; Housing; Population Demography; Race Relations.

Size:

Catalogue: Unicorn

Catalogue URL: http://libaxp.lse.ac.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/fBXt1ekm0k/237660083/60/1223

Main URL: http://www.library.lse.ac.uk/

Access: Staff and research students from other academic institutions can apply for an academic permit for reference use of the Library. Members of the public may access the Library's specialist collections, providing the required material is unavailable elsewhere. It will be particularly helpful if you bring a letter from your public library service confirming that this is the case. Full details about access to the library are available from web page at http://www.library.lse.ac.uk/services/admissions.html.
Opening hours: Term time : Mon-Fri: 9am-11pm / Sat- Sun: 11am-6pm
Christmas and Easter vacation: Mon-Fri: 9am-8pm / Sat-Sun: Closed.

Acquisition dates: 1896 - ongoing

Note:

Interest: Asian, Black, Caribbean

Complete: Complete

Subjects

Sociology

Politics

International relations

International politics

Government

Economics of culture

Economics

Cultural anthropology

Personal/Corporate names

World Bank

United Nations

European Union

Clarke, Edith, 1896-1979

Places

United Kingdom

Trinidad and Tobago

Jamaica