Lash Library, Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology

City/town

Cambridge

address

Margaret Beaufort Institute, Woolf Institute, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0UB

Telephone

01223 741039

Contact & Job Title

Susanne Jennings, MA, MA, MCLIP, Curator of the Lash Library

Purpose & main user community of the library

Set within the Cambridge Theological Federation (the Margaret Beaufort Institute is the Roman Catholic house of the CTF) with a discrete collection of predominantly Catholic monographs, the library's main users are researchers and under-/postgraduate students.

Terms of access

By prior email arrangement with the Curator and the Institute ().

Opening hours

By prior arrangement with the Curator for consultation of JH Newman works, all of which are non-borrowable. For access to general collection, please consult either the Curator () or the Institute via email ().

Disabled access

Yes

Lending to other libraries & visitors

No lending to visitors, only to registered borrowers.

Number of volumes

2500 vols with a further 3500 vols in store which are currently not possible to access

Other materials

Small archival collection pertaining to the history of the Margaret Beaufort Institute.

Special Collections

The library has a specialist collection of works by, on and about Cardinal St John Henry Newman which were bequeathed to the Institute by the late Norris Hulse Professor & theologian, Nicholas Lash. A large number of these works were annotated by Professor Lash which makes them of especial value to Newman – and Lash – scholars/researchers.

Catalogue Type

online

URL of catalogue
Part Time Staff

1

Voluntary Staff

Occasional voluntary staff for special projects/graduate library internships

Changes in next five years affecting the above

Interested in establishing links with other JH Newman specialist libraries within the UK