MIMAS tells us that “records from the University of Bradford’s Special Collections have now been added to Copac. This is in addition to the records already on Copac for Bradford’s Russian and Eastern European Studies (REES) holdings.

Special Collections at the University of Bradford holds over 100 collections of archives and rare books, reflecting the University’s strengths in social sciences and applied sciences and the history and culture of Bradford and its Yorkshire environment. Rich in rare modern volumes, the book collections cover archaeology, religion, literature, politics, industrial history and, above all, peace studies, one of the University’s best known departments.

There are several Special Collections relating to Balkans and former Yugoslavia, which complement the important holdings in the main library concerning East Europe. Named collections include the Mitrinović Library, the J B Priestley and Jaquetta Hawkins Collections, and the Commonweal Collection. These collections have been added as part of the Copac Challenge Fund, an initiative jointly funded by RLUK, the RIN, and the British Library.

Further information can be found on the RLUK website (http://www.rluk.ac.uk/node/59) Details of other libraries to be added as part of the initiative are available from the Forthcoming Libraries pages on the Copac website (http://copac.ac.uk/libraries/forthcoming/). Copac itself is a free service accessible at: http://copac.ac.uk

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