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| Name of Library: |
Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service |
| Address: |
Riverside Building, County Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford |
| Pre-1997 known as Bedfordshire Record Office |
| n/a; all enquiries to County Archivist |
| Purpose and main user community of the library |
| Collection, preservation and encouraging access to archives of the historic County. Note: our |
| Open to all without appointment or a reader's ticket |
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Mon
9-7, Tues,Wed, Fri 9-5. Shut Thursdays, weekends and Bank Holidays. No
production of documents 12.45-2pm daily, and after 4.30pm (6.30pm on Mondays) |
| Guide to access (leaflet or see website) is available. Only route for unaccompanied |
| wheelchair users is through main County Hall building from main reception; there isa |
| telephone just off our car park, but a few steps have to be negotiated. Access within building |
| is difficult; no special toilet facilities for the disabled. |
| Periodicals - Back Issues |
| Some personal diaries and letters on theological topics; good collection of Beds parish |
| magazines; some Mss sermons and printed pamphlets |
| See section on 'other materials' |
| Bedford Moravian Church archive (MO) |
| Society of Friends (Luton and Leighton Monthly Meetings) Yearly Epistles, 1676-1843. |
| Controversial pamphlets, 1659-1723 |
| Texts of Laudian sermons, 1628-1631 (TW 148) |
| Devotional book of Jeffrey Fisher of Flitwick, 1737-8 (LL 15/8) |
| Not our collecting strength, but some personal papers may be useful. Many of the relevant |
| items comprise just the odd Mss/printed text in much larger archives. |
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card; computer in progress;
word-processed catalogues being retrodigitised - 47%
of archive lists on WWW |
| Photocopying (not self-service) and limited Internet access under supervision |
| Voluntary Staff |
Occasional |
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The
parent authority, Bedfordshire County Council is due to be abolished in April
2009. This county-wide service will very probably remain intact, but funded/organised
in a different way |
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