Queen's University Belfast: Main Library

Title: Queen's University Belfast: Main Library

Description: The Main Library at Queen's University Belfast houses the University’s collection of books and journals for the Arts and Humanities, Education, Law and Official Publications, Social Sciences and Theology. It also houses the European Documentation Centre, and the Special Collections department. The Special Collections include the Hibernica collection of monographs, periodicals and pamphlets of general Irish interest along with works of Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton, books and pamphlets dating from 16th century, western and oriental manuscripts. (Please see the Special Collections web page at http://www.qub.ac.uk/lib/LibraryGuide/main/specialcoll.htm and the Main Library guide at http://www.qub.ac.uk/lib/LibraryGuide/guides/qmain2.pdf for further information.)
With regard to Caribbean studies the library houses approximately 200 relevant titles, including 13 periodicals. The following subject areas, topics and themes are covered in these resources: the economic and social history of Caribbean countries; the geography of the Caribbean region; politics and government in the region; Caribbean literature. There is also a small collection of books dealing specifically with slavery, the slave trade and the abolition movement in relation to Britain and the Caribbean shelved at classmarks HT869-HT871 and HT1161-HT1165.
With regard to the history of Black and Asian people in Britain the library houses approximately 400 titles (mainly books and some pamphlets). Many titles cover information about racism, anti-racism, race relations and race politics in Britain (c.200 titles), but there are also books on immigration issues, multiculturalism, and general texts on the history of the Black and Asian presence in Britain (e.g. Fryer, P, Staying power: the history of black people in Britain, London: Pluto, 1984 (ISBN: 0861047745); Gundara, J and Duffield, I (eds.), Essays on the history of blacks in Britain: from Roman times to the mid-twentieth century, Aldershot, Hants.: Avebury, 1992 (ISBN: 1856282139); etc.). A publication by Dr Nini Rodgers (School of Modern History, Queen's University Belfast) entitled 'Equiano and anti-slavery in eighteenth-century Belfast', published in 2000 by Belfast Society in association with the Ulster Historical Foundation, is also available for consultation in the Main Library (See also: ‘Equiano in Belfast: A study of the anti-slavery ethos in a northern town’ in Slavery and Abolition, Vol. 18, No.2, (1997), 73 - 89).

Strengths:

Size: c.200 titles relevant to Caribbean studies; c.400 titles on the history of Black and Asian people in Britain.

Catalogue: Qcat (Talis)

Catalogue URL: http://library.qub.ac.uk/qu_www-bin/www_talis32

Main URL: http://www.qub.ac.uk/lib/

Access: Please visit the web page http://www.qub.ac.uk/lib/LibraryGuide/services.htm for full information on access conditions and lending policies.

Acquisition dates:

Note:

Interest: Asian, Black, Caribbean

Complete: Complete

Subjects

Sociology

Social history

Anti-slavery movements

Slavery

Politics

Literature

Interethnic relations

Economic history

Personal/Corporate names

Equiano, Olaudah, c.1745-1797

Places

Belfast, United Kingdom