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| Keywords: london school of economics londonschoolofeconomics lse lse library lselibrary blackandwhite monochrome indoor black and white Superintendent of Readers' Services, LSE Library 1950-1974 Geoffry Allen (the idiosyncratic spelling is his own choice) retires from the Library staff this summer). Armed with a first in Greats from Brasenose, he worked woth printed books in the British Museum and then with manuscripts in the Central African Archives, and came to our library in 1950...Till 1962, he was deputy to the Chief Cataloguer...at the same tim, he bacame the Library's specialist in early books (a more extensive and more important collection than is often realised) and manuscripts, including such celebrated collections as the papers of JS Mill, E.D Morel, Sidney webb, Lord Beveridge, and Hugh Dalton, on which he has made himself an authority; and he has retained this responsibility, latterly with the title of Keeper of Manuscripts. Since 1962, however he has doubled this office with that of Superintendent of Readers' Services...' Geoffrey Woledge, LSE Magazine, June 1974, No47, p.14 (Retirements) IMAGELIBRARY/1168 Persistent URL: archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&a... Superintendent of Readers' Services, LSE Library 1950-1974 Geoffry Allen (the idiosyncratic spelling is his own choice) retires from the Library staff this summer). Armed with a first in Greats from Brasenose, he worked woth printed books in the British Museum and then with manuscripts in the Central African Archives, and came to our library in 1950...Till 1962, he was deputy to the Chief Cataloguer...at the same tim, he bacame the Library's specialist in early books (a more extensive and more important collection than is often realised) and manuscripts, including such celebrated collections as the papers of JS Mill, E.D Morel, Sidney webb, Lord Beveridge, and Hugh Dalton, on which he has made himself an authority; and he has retained this responsibility, latterly with the title of Keeper of Manuscripts. Since 1962, however he has doubled this office with that of Superintendent of Readers' Services...' Geoffrey Woledge, LSE Magazine, June 1974, No47, p.14 (Retirements) IMAGELIBRARY/1168 Persistent URL: archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&a... | ||||
