The Alma Jordan Library at the
University of the West Indies
The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 17 English-speaking countries and territories in th ...
(UWI),
Trinidad and Tobago, was named after UWI librarian Dr.
Alma Jordan
Alma or ALMA may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Alma'' (film), a 2009 Spanish short animated film
* ''Alma'' (Oswald de Andrade novel), 1922
* ''Alma'' (Le Clézio novel), 2017
* ''Alma'' (play), a 1996 drama by Joshua Sobol about Alma ...
in 2012. The four-storied library is located on the St. Augustine Campus of the UWI. It is the largest of the libraries in the St Augustine Campus libraries network, with approximately 600,000 monographs, 31,000 e-books, 4,000 serial titles, 57,000 e-journal subscriptions and access to over 200 databases.
The Alma Jordan Library houses the
Eric Williams Memorial Collection
The Eric Williams Memorial Collection (EWMC), located at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago, was inaugurated in 1998 by former US Secretary of State Colin Powell. In 1999, it was named to UNESCO’s prestigious Memory of the W ...
, which has been named to the UNESCO
Memory of the World Register.
The library houses the minute books of the
London Society of West India Planters and Merchants, a major
anti-abolitionist organisation of the British West Indian
plantocracy.
[Ryden D. (2015) The Society of West India Planters and Merchants in the Age of Emancipation, c.1816-35]
Economic History Society Annual Conference, University of Wolverhampton
accessed 5 January 2016
Other libraries in the St Augustine Campus Libraries network include the Medical Sciences Library, the library at the School of Education, the Festival Library and Cultural Resource Centre, the library at the Centre for Language Learning, the library attached to the Institute of International Relations, the Republic Bank Library at the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, the library of the National Herbarium of Trinidad and Tobago, the Library at the
Hugh Wooding Law School, the Seismic Research Centre Library, the Patience-Theunissen Memorial Library located at
Mount Saint Benedict and the Library at Roytec at the UWI School of Business and Applied Studies.
References
External links
Official website
Academic libraries
Libraries in Trinidad and Tobago
University of the West Indies
1962 establishments in Trinidad and Tobago
Libraries established in 1962
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