A Librarian and Bibliographer, K.E. Ingram - as he is known - has made an outstanding contribution to Librarianship and Historical Scholarship in Jamaica and the Caribbean. (...) A founding member of the Jamaica Library Association he served as its first Secretary from 1950 to 1953. He was very active in the professional association and served in various other offices including that of President in 1956 and 1972. he was also involved in regional library activities which culminated in his election in 1976 as President of the Association of Caribbean Universities, research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL).
From the author’s Introduction:
This work is a survey of the sources of Jamaican history during a clearly defined period, from its conquest and settlement by the English as a plantation colony, through the period of development of Jamaican planter society to its high water-mark in the mid- to later eighteenth century, to its decline and virtual collapse with the abolition of slavery. It is concerned with primary sources, and especially with manuscript sources in British and Jamaican libraries and repositories, in private ownership, and to a lesser extent, with those in North America and Europe. It discusses in broad outline the principal repositories in which these collections of source material find themselves, the nature and extent of the sources, their historical and bibliographical background with special reference to their formation, provenance, availability and the use to which they have been put, also their relationship to one another where such relationships exist.
Contents:
Introduction
I. Bibliographical Approaches to Source Material Relating to Jamaica
II. British and Irish Repositories and Sources
III. Jamaican Repositories and Sources
IV. North American Repositories and Sources
V. Spanish Repositories and Sources
VI. European Repositories and Sources (excluding those of Spain)
VII. Some Printed Sources
VIII. Maps and Pictorial Records
No comments:
Post a Comment