Off Air Recordings: WB 26/10/2009

The following list of Off-Air Recordings for the week ahead were requested for the Refugee Archives:

Monday 26 October

2100-2220: C4: Race and Intelligence – Science’s Last Taboo.  5775336

Tuesday 27 October

2100-2200: C4: (3/3) The Force.  5553

2200-2305: C4: Bleach, Nip, Tuck: the White Beauty Myth  4515553

Wednesday 28 October

2100-2200: BBC2: (1/6): Andrew Marr’s The Making of Modern Britain.  5593.  Whole Series Requested.

2315-0035: C4: (347) Generation Kill. 800664

Thursday 29 October

2200-2300: C4: The Event: How Racist Are You?  7184

Friday 30 October

1930-2000: C4: (6/10).  Unreported World: Greece – The Unwanted. 943

Overhaul of Refugee Archive Online Resources

This is a quick posting to let everyone know that there will now be a limited output on the Refugee Archive at UEL blogs over the next few months. this is to enable us to undertake a review of our online presence and to make some necessary changes and upgrades, and hopefully some improvements too, to our online presence.

Many apologies in advance for the reduced service but we hope to have a new and revised online presence available in time for the start of the new academic year in August/September 2009.

Many thanks in advance for your cooperation.

Yours Sincerely,

Paul Dudman
Archivist.

CARA Archive at UEL

This is a brief introductory message to draw youe attention to the important work being underataken by CARA, the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics and to provide information in regard to the availability of their Archive.

CARA was originaly founded in 1933 as the Academic Assistance Council in order to help support academics who facing persecution within their home country.  In light of the international situation at the time, in 1936 the Academic Assistance Council re-formed itself as the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) and continued to play a hugely important role supporting refugee academics and defending academic freedom.  Further details on the history of CARA can be found on their website here – http://www.academic-refugees.org/history.asp – and also in the launch of a recent book to celebrate 75 years of the organisation entitled “The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the flight from Tyranny” By Jeremy Seabrook.  Please contact CARA if you would like to purchase this book and copies are available for consultation here at the Refugee Archive.

We are pleased to say that we are currently working with CARA to make their Archive of modern records available.  The Archive has now arrived at UEL and the next stage is for us to accession and catalogue the material and once this is complete, then decisions can be made in regard to how best to enable access to the collection.  Obviously these decisions will need to made with due consideration to the Data Protection Acr and with full consultation with CARA.

In the meantime, I would also like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to the CARA Archive collection which is held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.  This collection covers the dates between 1933 and 1987.  Further information can be found both on the CARA website and by following this link – http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/online.htm – to the Bodeian Library website.  To access the Archive, you will first need to contact the CARA office at: info.cara@lsbu.ac.uk or call 020 7021 0880.

Further updates to this posting will be available in due course.

Off Air Recordings: WB 28/03/2009.

I have requested the  following television programmes to be recorded via our UEL off-air service for the week beginning 28 March 2009.  Details are as follows:

Saturday 28 March

2115-2215: BBC2: (3/3) The Lost World of Communism 514288

2350-0255: Channel 4: Monster’s Ball.  53151751

Friday 3 April

1935-200: Channel 4: (4/9) Unreported World – Sierra Leone: Insanity of War. 640680

Off Air Recordings: WB 07/03/2009

Details of the off-air recordings requested for the Refugee Archive for the week beginning Saturday 07 March, 2009 are detailed as follows:

Saturday 7 July

2100-2230: BBC2: The Satanic Verses Affair.  6587

Sunday 8 March

0200-0300: Channel 4: Death in the Bay: the Cockle-Picker’s Story.  32828  (early hours of Monday morning).

Monday 9 March

2030-2100: BBC1: Panorama – Immigration: Time for an Amnesty? 4016

Friday 13 March

1935-2000: Channel 4: (1/9) Unreported World.  (Congo – Forest of the Dead). 329145  Whole Series Requested

Revised Saturday Openings (New Date in April)

Since my earlier posting regarding Saturday openings for the Refugee Archive during Semester B 2009, I am now able to confirm that the Archive will now be open on a Saturday in April to tie-in with The 6th Annual Forced Migration Student Conference**.

I hope these dates will be fixed now but if the need arises for any alterations then these will be advertised well in advance.

The Archive will therefore be open on the following Saturdays during the times listed:

• Saturday 7 March: 10am-5pm
• Saturday 28 March: 10am-5pm
• Saturday 25 April: 10am-5pm**.
• Saturday 9 May: 10am-5pm
• Saturday 16 May: 10am-5pm
  

These dates are also available on our web site at:

http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/using-rca.htm#saturday

If you have any comments, then please let us know my leaving a reply to this posting or by contacting us at: library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

** Further details on The 6th Annual Firced Migration Student Conference can be found be clicking on the following link:

http://www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/programmes/postgraduate/refugeestudies/FMSC09.htm

Posted in: Refugee Studies.

Refugee Archives Saturday Openings for Semester B

The following dates are the now confirmed dates for the Refugee Archives at UEL to be open on a Saturday during Semester B. Apologies for the delay in confirming these dates and for there being no dates available during April, this is due to a combination of Easter and the prior commitments of the Archivist.

I hope these dates will be fixed now but if the need arises for any alterations then these will be advertised well in advance.

The Archive will therefore be open on the following Saturdays during the times listed:

• Saturday 7 March: 10am-5pm
• Saturday 28 March: 10am-5pm
• April: No Saturday Openings Possible.
• Saturday 9 May: 10am-5pm
• Saturday 16 May: 10am-5pm
  

These dates are also available on our web site at:

http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/using-rca.htm#saturday

If you have any comments, then please let us know my leaving a reply to this posting or by contacting us at: library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

Refugee Archives – Changes to Opening Hours and Staff Availability

This is a quick note just to update everyone on some forthcoming changes to the opening hours and staffing arrangements for the Refugee Archives and to detail the Saturday Opening timetable for Semester B.

There are three main strands to this message and these will be detailed as follows:

1). Due to unforeseen circumstances, Paul Dudman, (the Archivist), will be away from the office for a two week period between Monday 2^nd February and Friday 13 February. A reduced Archive service will therefore operate during this period and please enquire at the Library Enquiry Desk for further information, (Tel: 020 8223 3434).

2) From Monday 16rh February when Paul Dudman returns to the Archive, he will only be available in the Archive during the normal office hours on Mondays (9am-6pm) ; Tuesdays (10am-7pm) ; and Wednesdays (9am-6pm). For al day on Thursday and on Friday mornings until 1pm, the Archive will be managed by a member of Library Staff subject to staff availability. Please bear in mind it might take a little longer to answer your enquiries so please be patient.

3) The initial plan for Saturday openings in Semester B will be to open the Archive on the dates listed below. Hopefully there will not be any changes to this list but it is still provisional until I can confirm the dates on my return. I will let you know as soon as possible when the official dates are know.

The provisional dates are therefore as follows:

Saturday 21 February : 10am-5pm

Saturday 21 March : 10am-5pm

Saturday 28 March: 10am-5pm

April No Saturday Opening Possible.

Saturday 9 May : 10am- 5pm

Saturday 16 May : 10am – 5pm.

Many thanks in advance for your help and co-operation.  Any questions then please email us at: Library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

Yours Sincerely,

Paul Dudman

Archivist.

Posted in: Refugee Studies.

Off Air Recordings: 24/01/2009

Details of the off-air recordings requested for next week are as follows:

Sunday 25 January

1900-2000: Channel 4: ( 3/8 ) Christianity: a History.

1900-2000: BBC2: (1/6) Amazon with Bruce Perry.  Whole Series Please.

Thursday 29 January

2320-2350: BBC2: Explore: Argentina’s Dirty War.

Off-Air recordings WB: 17/01/09

Details of next weeks off air recordings are as follows:

Sunday 18 January

1900-2000: Channel 4: ( 2/8 ) Christianity: A History.

Monday 19 January

1955-2000: Channel 4: (1/4) Three Minute Wonder – My Home is in My Shoes.

Tuesday 20 January

1955-2000: Channel 4: (2/4) Three Minute Wonder – My Home is in My Shoes.

Wednesday 21 January

1955-2000: Channel 4: (3/4) Three Minute Wonder – My Home is in My Shoes.

2100-2200: BBC2: Stockwell.

Thursday 22 January

1955-2000: Channel 4: (4/4) Three Minute Wonder – My Home is in My Shoes.