Joint Library of the Hellenic & Roman Societies / Institute of Classical Studies Library

The Library is maintained jointly with the Societies for the Promotion of Hellenic and Roman Studies and in association with the Institute of Classical Studies (University of London). It contains over 130,000 volumes, 22,000 bound volumes of periodicals, thereby bringing the overall total to almost 152,000 volumes. The Library has an international reputation as one of the world’s foremost Classics libraries.

Tuesday, 4 May 2010

Roman Society - AGM 5th June 2010

There has been a change of lecture title at 5.15 pm. Professor Timothy Barnes will now speak about The Election of Ambrose as Bishop of Milan instead of the previously advertised title Were (any) early Christians (ever) crucified?

Friday, 22 January 2010

Sad news

We are sorry to announce the death in early January 2010 of Fred Jenkins, a very long serving member of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies who started work in 1936, ending his career as Sub-Librarian when he retired in 1977. Fred will be remembered fondly by those who knew him.

New Periodical

The Library has recently added a new title, Journal of Late Antiquity, a gift from one of our readers. Our holdings are from Vol 1, 2008 onwards.

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

New online databases

The Library has subscribed to Jacoby / Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker and Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum which may be searched from within the Library's Computer Room.

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Foundation day 2009

The Library will close early (at 3p.m.) on Wednesday 25th November for the annual Foundation day ceremony.

Monday, 2 November 2009

Library is now fully open

The Librarian is pleased to report that the Library is now fully open following the completion of repair work to the periodicals mobile shelving.

All five Library staff would like to thank our readers for their patience while the repair work was taking place during October.

Friday, 25 September 2009

Fetching service as interim measure

Until the periodical collection in the mobile shelving unit has been removed, the library will offer a fetching service for books with classmarks 102-136; 152-153; ST. 19-20 and ST. 28 and 29 - twice a day at 11.30 am and 3.30 pm. Please place requests on the day or in advance by e-mailing sue.willetts@sas.ac.uk