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| Sir Ronald Ross |
The Archives
team is looking forward to a busy year with lots of events and activities
already in the diary.
We are
leading on two of the four exhibitions which are on display in the Keppel
Street foyer in 2014. In the summer there will be an exhibition and events to
commemorate the start of the First World War.
The focus of the exhibition is health and conflict and will showcase
material from the archives and current information held by staff on the
School’s contribution to conflicts since the First World War. We are part of a
network of archives that are working on WW1 events and hopefully we can work
with other London institutions on some joint activities.
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| Poster from the AIDS collection |
In the
Autumn, we will be putting on an exhibition to celebrate the completion of the
HIV/AIDS cataloguing project funded by the Wellcome Trust. This will bring
together items from each of the six collections to showcase the fascinating
content of the material held in the Archives. There will also be an event to
mark the end of the project – more details to follow.
The Archives
will also have input into the Malaria exhibition scheduled for the Spring,
including material from the Sir Ronald Ross collection. Ross was the discoverer
of the mosquito transmission of malaria and the first Briton to be awarded the
Nobel prize for medicine. The Archives holds over 20,000 items including his
scientific notebooks, correspondence, reports, publications, photographs and
some artefacts including a microscope (which is currently on display in the
foyer as part of the TB
exhibition).
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| Menu from Leeson collection |
Gems from the
collections sessions will be held each term which give staff and students a
chance to get a closer look at material from the archives and rare book
collections. The team will also be running tours of the building for those
interested in finding out more about the Keppel Street building and the origins
of the School.
In the
Archives, we do more than look after the School historical collections. We
manage MediaLibrary, the School’s image and multimedia database. If you need an
image, just go to MediaLibrary: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives/medialibrary/index.html, log in with your School username and password
and access over 25,000 images. There is also a public version of the database
and we are always happy to answer enquiries from the public regarding our
images. We are currently running a photo competition with the theme ‘Improving
Health Worldwide’ which staff and students are encouraged to enter, for more
details please see: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives/medialibrary/2013_photo_competition.html
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| 2013 Photo competition winner |
The Archives
Service also deals with Freedom of Information requests which kept us very busy
in 2013, the School received 98 in total, which increased dramatically from the
43 received in 2012; and offers a records management service for the storage of
records, there are plans to hold Document Destruction days in 2014 which
encourage staff to organise and destroy records that are no longer required.
Finally, it
will be an exciting year for the Research Data Management Support Service which
is due to launch its website soon, other plans include developing the data
repository, delivering training events for staff and students and providing
more interesting seminars on research data management topics. For further
information, please see the RDM blog at: http://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/rdmss/
