Marshall Library
The Marshall Library of Economics , or Marshall Library for short , is a specialist library for economics in Cambridge .
History and architecture
The collection of the Marshall Library of Economics at Cambridge University is based on the so-called Moral Sciences Library , which was founded in 1885 by Professor Alfred Marshall and Professor Henry Sidgwick ; this consisted largely of their own books and was stored in the School of Divinity.
Alfred Marshall died in 1924 and he bequeathed his personal library to Cambridge University. In recognition of this, the growing collection was now called “The Marshall Library of Economics” and was housed in larger rooms in a building on Downing Street . In 1935, the premises of the former Squire Law Library were taken over, and in the early 1960s the library moved to its current location on Sidgwick Avenue . The Marshall Library is located here within the Austin Robinson Building, which also houses the Faculty of Economics. This building was designed by Hugh Casson . Since 2012, the library also contains the books from the Center of Development Studies , which were previously kept in the Mill Lane Library.
Stocks
Nowadays the library contains books and materials not only on economics and applied folk studies, but also on development studies. The library owns about 75,000 monographs, 25,000 volumes of journals, and subscribes to 30 printed journals. The historical collection consists of around 4,000 rarities and various archival materials from economists (e.g. Alfred Marshall , John Neville Keynes , Arthur Pigou , Austin Robinson ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Cambridge Libraries Directory, Marshall Library . Retrieved January 15, 2015.
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