FOI2021/00196: Pamphlet digitisation
Case reference FOI2021/00196
Published 2 July 2021
Request
Request Received: 8 April 2021
I'm trying to track down catalogue records for 19thc pamphlets the Higher Education Funding Council (which I see is the predecessor of the UKRI) apparently made available some 15 years ago. All I'm working from is a mention in an article written by former LSE librarian Barbara Humphries in 2013. It writes: 'Funding from the Higher Education Funding Council made available catalogue records for 200,000 nineteenth-century pamphlets in the major research libraries in the UK. Digitization of 25,000 of these was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee along with other key digitization projects in 2006'.
I'm using the 25,000 digitised pamphlets for a paper I'm writing, but information on the 200,000 it was drawn from would be so helpful for my research. Are you able to help me, or point me towards people who may?
Response
Response Sent: 23 April 2021
Research England and UKRI do not hold any relevant information in scope of your request for 'catalogue records for 200,000 nineteenth century pamphlets.'
As part of our duty to advise and assist under the FOIA, you may find the following publicly available information of interest:
• Publicly available information on the 26,000 digitised nineteenth century pamphlets and how to access them is available here.
• Further information on the cataloguing project can be found here and identifies in Collections pamphlets that have not yet been digitised and those that have been digitised.
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