Somerville College Report 09|10 - University of Oxford
Somerville College Report 09|10 - University of Oxford
Somerville College Report 09|10 - University of Oxford
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30 | Library <strong>Report</strong><br />
The photograph archive project which is being funded by the Pauline Adams retirement<br />
fund has also got <strong>of</strong>f the ground. A graduate student, Vanessa Cazzato, has been<br />
scanning several hundred photos from the early days <strong>of</strong> <strong>Somerville</strong> and Jane Robinson<br />
has now taken on the task <strong>of</strong> helping to create a searchable archive from the photos.<br />
The aim is to create a website to display the photos, along with information about them,<br />
to which the public can contribute. It is anticipated that initial results will be presented<br />
at the Literary Lunch in November.<br />
Library Collection<br />
During the year 1459 items were added to the library collection <strong>of</strong> which 375 were<br />
gifts. Among the gifts to the library were a collection <strong>of</strong> historical biographies, letters<br />
and diaries from the library <strong>of</strong> Jane Aiken Hodge (1935) given by her daughters Joanna<br />
(1972) and Jessica (1968), banking and finance books from Margaret Dawes (Monk,<br />
1936), physics and maths books from Shirlayne Dunwoodie (Rush, 1992), Old English<br />
books from Dinah Jones (1980), anthropology books from Renate Barber, and a<br />
wonderful collection <strong>of</strong> medieval history texts from Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Barbara Harvey, who also<br />
paid for the restoration <strong>of</strong> a fine 1811 edition <strong>of</strong> Fabyan’s Chronicles that had belonged<br />
to her tutor May McKisack before her. Other gifts <strong>of</strong> money to the library were received<br />
from Beryl Davies (1941) and from the bequest <strong>of</strong> Jennifer Morton (1980). The latter gift<br />
will be used to create and catalogue a musical score collection in the Dorothy Hodgkin<br />
Quad Music Room. Gifts to the archives have included a number <strong>of</strong> photos <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
plays from the late twenties and a copy <strong>of</strong> songs from The Red’s Progress (GDP 1930)<br />
given by Susan Rees, niece <strong>of</strong> Judith Todd (1927), photos from college events by Susan<br />
Partridge and some <strong>of</strong> the papers <strong>of</strong> D J Dawson (1946). In addition to these major<br />
gifts to the library and archives, we have been fortunate enough to receive many other<br />
smaller items and our thanks go to everyone who has sent items during the year.
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