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The Society for Libyan Studies Archive: Past, Present and Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2015

Victoria Leitch  and
Julia Nikolaus
Victoria Leitch
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK
Julia Nikolaus
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK
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Abstract

The archive of the Society for Libyan Studies, housed at the University of Leicester, is home to a rich collection of excavation reports, notes, photographs, typescripts, maps, plans and letters by prominent scholars that worked in North Africa. Amongst the material are the records of Olwen Brogan, Charles Daniels, John Ward-Perkins, John Dore and the UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey. The aim is to draw attention to the research potentials in the archive, and to encourage scholars to visit this important collection to engage with the material that is unpublished or merits re-interpretation. A future digital format for the archive is proposed, to make it accessible to a much wider academic audience worldwide.

تضم جمعية أرشيف الدراسات الليبية، ومركزها جامعة ليستر، مجوعة ثرية من تقارير التنقيب، والملاحظات، والصور، والوثائق المطبوعة، والخرائط، والمخططات، والرسائل التي كتبها أبرز الباحثين الذين عملوا في شمال إفريقيا. ومن ضمن مواد الأرشيف هناك سجلات كلّ من : ألوين بروغان، وشارلز دانيالز، وجون وارد- بيركنز، وجون دور، بالإضافة لاستطلاع الوديان الليبية الذي أشرفت عليه منظمة اليونسكو.

هدف الجمعية هو لفت الانتباه إلى فرص البحث المحتملة باستخدام الأرشيف، وتشجيع الباحثين على زيارة الجمعية والإطلاع على المواد الهامة غير المنشورة الموجودة في الأرشيف واستخدامها، وكذلك إعادة تأويل بعض المواد الأخرى . وهناك اقتراح بتحويل الأرشيف إلى أرشيف رقمي في المستقبل لإتاحة مزيد من الفرص لشريحة أوسع من الأكاديميين للاطلاع على المواد الموجودة واستخدامها في أي مكان من العالم .

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Libyan Studies , Volume 46 , November 2015 , pp. 151 - 156
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Copyright © The Society for Libyan Studies 2015 

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