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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

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  1. Library and Learning Services The Richmal Crompton Collection

  2. 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

  3. Two of the adult novels

  4. Many of the books are inscribed

  5. Editions of William books in different languages

  6. Some uncorrected proofs and many editions of the different William books

  7. Fan mail…

  8. …and drawings

  9. Notes for William stories

  10. Radio plays in published…

  11. …and proof format

  12. Travel notebooks…

  13. …and postcards

  14. Developing the Collection • Storage • Conservation • Cataloguing • Promotion • Exploitation

  15. Storage: The Special Collections reading room, showing Richmal Crompton’s personal library

  16. The reading room, with a view of the many editions of William titles

  17. Documents are kept in the climate-controlled archive store, installed Summer 2007, and will be brought in to the reading room on request.

  18. Storage of some of the papers before they came to Roehampton…

  19. …and after

  20. The Collection is being catalogued on the library system

  21. A detailed catalogue record

  22. To search the Roehampton Library catalogue, go to http://prism.talis.com/roehampton/

  23. Promotion of the Collection started at a launch of Roehampton Archives and Special Collections, when Paul Ashbee was interviewed by Roehampton television services (TVR)

  24. 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

  25. 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

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