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About usWESLINE is an umbrella group created to enable collaboration between the individual Library Groups for West European Languages and to facilitate the dissemination of information and discussion of issues in West European studies in the UK. The members of WESLINE are:
Other language groups which may be of relevance or interest to WESLINE members include:
The WESLINE Mailing list The new WESLINE mailing list is up and running with over 60 subscribers. Please use the list to relay messages about items of mutual interest to people who work in (or have an interest in) the field of resources for West European languages or area studies. To join the list go to http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/WESLINE DirectoryThis is a directory of library staff and their areas of interest, please send us your contact details if you wish to be included.
Announcements
The FSLG Annual Review 2011 is now available and can be viewed here.
FSLG and AGM Study Day 2011 The FSLG AGM and Study Day for 2011 will take place at the British Library in London on Monday 5 September 2011. Following the AGM in the morning, the afternoon will feature presentations on issues facing Modern Foreign Languages Departments in the UK, and of Culturethèque (free online multimedia library). Professor Philip Ford (Department of French, University of Cambridge) and Ophélie Ramonatxo and Léonore Schick ((Institut français) have agreed to speak. There will be a tour of the BL's major exhibition Out of this World: Science Fiction but not as you know if led by the co-curator, Katya Rogatchevskaia. Please click here to view and dowload the Programme and the Registration Form. It will be a varied and interesting day and we hope that lots of you can make it. The deadline registration is Wednesday 31st August 2011.
ACLAIIR now has a new web page
ACLAIIR AGM and Seminar 2011 JORNADAS REDIAL/ACLAIIR 20-21 June 2011 This year’s meeting of the Hispanic Studies library group, ACLAIIR, was a joint event with the continental European association REDIAL (Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina). It was held at the British Library at St Pancras and also at the Institute for the Study of the Americas in London on Monday and Tuesday 20-21 June. The first day included presentations of research projects on Latin America by leading UK academics and also introductions to two major commercial projects of interest to Latin Americanists. The second day was devoted to REDIAL’s own projects. It is hoped that this meeting in London may encourage greater collaboration between UK and continental European information providers and librarians. Details of the programme are available here. Details of the academic speakers' profiles and research projects can be found below: Claire Taylor (University of Liverpool) Matthew Brown (University of Bristol) Aquiles Alencar Brayner (British Library) Stephen Hart (University College London) Erica Segre (University of Cambridge) John Perivolaris Retratos de Independencia. Bicentennial Portraits of Latin American Women in England
ISLG AGM and Annual Lecture 2011 The Italian Studies Library Group (ISLG) held its AGM and Annual Lecture at the British Library on 21 June 2011. Details of the events can be viewed here. Unfortunately, Christopher Duggan's lecture had to be postponed because of illness, but Dr Maurizio Isabella (Queen Mary, University of London), stepped into the breach and delivered a lecture entitled Italian exiles in Britain during the 1820s. Christopher Duggan's postponed lecture has been rescheduled for Monday 21 November 2011 at the British Library (further details to follow closer to the time). The date, venue and time of the 2012 ISLG AGM will be Monday 18 June 2012 at 2pm at the British Library.
WESLINE 2010 Conference 1st - 3rd September 2010 The fifth annual WESLINE conference Keeping calm and carrying on - level-headed librarians in a time of financial trouble Forza! Prenez courage! ¡No te desanimes! Halt die Ohren steif! was hosted by the John Rylands University Library, Manchester. There was a packed and practical programme of interest to librarians and academics across French, German, Italian and Spanish studies. The conference included presentations by academic staff of Manchester University's School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and by professional colleagues from Liverpool and Portsmouth. Here is a link to an account of WESLINE 2010.
ACLAIIR AGM 29th June 2010 The 2010 Annual General Meeting of ACLAIIR was held in Meeting Room 4, Conference Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB. The AGM was followed by an afternoon seminar devoted to projects and current research on nineteenth-century Latin America. Speakers, in order of appearance, were: Natalia Sobrevilla Perea: Looking at Independence from the Andean Region; Catherine Davies: Women's Portraits and Latin American Independence: Past and Present; and Will Fowler:The Pronunciamiento in Independent Mexico, 1821-1876. [A link to the AHRC-funded research project: Gendering Latin American Independence: Women's Political Culture and the Textual Construction of Gender 1790-1850 is provided here. A link to the AHRC-funded research project: The Pronunciamiento in Independent Mexico, 1821-1876 is provided here.] In addition, Aquiles Alencar Brayner gave guided tours of his exhibition '¡Viva la Libertad! Spanish American Independence Movements, 1810-1860' in the British Library's Folio Society Gallery. There then followed an evening event, held in the British Library Conference Centre: The Legacy of Latin American Liberation Most Spanish American countries have experienced political upheavals over the last century. The revolutions in Mexico, Cuba and Nicaragua, military coups in Argentina and Chile, and guerilla conflicts in Colombia and Peru are just some examples of the unstable political climate in the region. Our panel asked if the seeds for such regular turmoil were sown at the end of colonial rule and as many countries now appeared to be settling into democratic balance - was the continent set for a less turbulent future? The panel consisted of: historian and journalist Richard Gott; US based writer Nikolas Kozloff; Nicola Miller, UCL and Oscar Guardiola, Birkbeck College University of London.
The ISLG AGM and Annual Lecture 29th June 2010 The ISLG AGM took place on Tuesday 29 June 2010 at the British Library and was followed by the Annual Lecture which took place at 6.00 pm that evening. This year's lecture was by Professor Brian Richardson on Transformations of a Text: Boccaccio's Decameron from Manuscript to Print and Beyond. Details of the lecture can be viewed here.
WESLINE 2009 Conference 2nd - 5th September 2009 The fourth annual WESLINE conference was held in Durham. The conference organisers arranged a wide range of events containing elements of interest to French, German, Spanish and Italian studies: the programme of events for this conference can be viewed here. The FSLG AGM was held after the WESLINE AGM on the 3rd September and the GLSLG AGM on the 4th September.
ACLAIIR AGM 19th June 2009 The 2009 Annual General Meeting of ACLAIIR was held on Friday 19 June at the Instituto Cervantes de Londres (102 Eaton Sq., London SW1W 9AN). The afternoon consisted of a seminar on the outcome of the RAE exercise for Latin American and Iberian Languages (i.e.Panel 55) and on the preliminary findings of the British Academy report on Latin American Area Studies. Professor Catherine Davies, Philip Swanson and Linda Newson agreed to speak. We considered research trends, implications for resources and changes in research methods and practice. A final session looked at current practices in acquisition and selection of Hispanic materials in UK university and research libraries.
ISLG AGM and Annual Lecture 23rd June 2009 The ISLG AGM and the annual ISLG lecture both took place on Tuesday 23 June in The Conference Centre at the British Library. The AGM took place at 11am. The annual lecture took place at 6pm. The title of this years lecture was "The poet as Pirate: D'Annunzio at Fiume and on Garda" and it was given by John Woodhouse, Emeritus Fiat Serena Professor of Italian in the University of Oxford. The Society for Italian Studies Biennial International Conference 16th-19th April 2009 The Society for Italian Studies held its Biennial International Conference at Royal Holloway College (Univ. of London) on 16-19 April (2009).
FSLG Annual Review: issue 6 (2009-10) The sixth issue of the FSLG Annual Review (2009-10) is now available. It is a mixture of feature articles and news items covering all matters relating to French Studies librarianship. It is an e-publication only, available from the FSLG and WESLINE websites as a PDF document. The editor would like to thank all those who contributed pieces. (PDFs require Adobe Acrobat reader. Click here to download).
ACLAIIR Newsletter: issue 17 (2008)
The WESLINE 2008 Conference (ACLAIIR/FSLG/GSLG/ISLG) 'Social Studies of Western Europe. Projects and resources' was held on 1st & 2nd of September at the British Library in London. The conference focused on Social Studies in Western Europe, covering research trends and a range of academic and library case studies and projects. A selection of the conference papers are available below:
WESLINE is grateful to the Taylor & Francis Group for their support for this conference. Click here to view and download the full Conference Programme.
WESLINE 2007 Conference (ACLAIIR/FSLG/ISLG) / Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies joint colloquium, IGRS, University of London 'Exploding the canon. From Medieval Romance to TV Soap: meeting the challenges in resource provision' The 2007 conference, hosted by the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, took place on Wednesday 12th September. The conference looked at how Romance Studies have evolved beyond language and literature to embrace all cultural phenomena. A selection of the conference papers are available below:
Further details of the conference programme are available on the IGRS website.
WESLINE 2006 Conference (ACLAIIR/FSLG/GSLG/ISLG), University of London The 2006 conference, hosted by the University of London Research Library Services and the School of Advanced Study, took place in London on the 14th - 16th September. Here are details of the conference programme.
ISiS (Iberian Studies in SALALM)
Documents of interestIntute plans for the future - 2010 and beyond Review of Modern Foreign Languages provision in higher education in England British Academy Language Matters The AHRC's Research Review on Modern Languages WESLINE response to the British Library's Content Strategy Consultation compiled by Jill Kempshall. Consortium of West European Studies Library Groups questionnaire and analysis. (These documents are PDF files and will require Adobe Acrobat to view them). National Languages Strategy report by Hilary Foottit Any comments and contributions to this website are welcome, please send them to Sarah Burn For more information about WESLINE, please contact David Lowe WESLINE does not accept any responsibility for the content of any external sites it provides links to. |
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