Shelf Life Newsletters

Call Number

WAG.365

Creator

Working Class Movement Library (Salford, Greater Manchester, England)

Extent

2 websites

in two archived website

Language of Materials

The materials are in English.

Abstract

Shelf Life is the quarterly newsletter of the Working Class Movement Library in Salford, England. The archived website contains PDFs of the newsletter dating back to 2006.

Historical Note

The Working Class Movement Library was formed out of the personal library collection of Edmund and Ruth Frow at their home at 111 King's Road, Stretford, England in the 1950s. In the 1980s, the Salford City Council agreed to support the library and the collection was moved to Jubilee House on Salford Crescent. The collection focuses on the history of Britain's working class from the beginning of industrialization to the present day, as well as materials on left campaigns, the Spanish Civil War, and the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Arrangement

This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were captured.

Scope and Contents

Shelf Life is the quarterly newsletter of the Working Class Movement Library in Salford, England. The archived website contains PDFs of the newsletter dating back to 2006-2021. The newsletter focuses on topics such as bequests to the library, grant applications, new acquisitions to the collections, collection highlights, outreach initiatives, staff updates, trade union support, obituaries, fundraising, information on the annual Frow lecture, and other events and exhibitions at the Library.

In 2024, the Library's website was redesigned and the newsletter was taken down. As of this writing (January 2025) news, collection, and event information that was in the newsletter are published on their blog.

Subjects

Topics

Working class -- Great Britain -- History -- Periodicals; Labor movement -- Great Britain -- History -- Periodicals

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; Shelf Life Newsletters; WAG 365; Wayback URL; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

https://www.wcml.org.uk/shelf-life/ was selected by Tim Johnson in 2018 as the Tamiment-Wagner: Shelf Life Web Archive to supplement library collection holdings. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. The accession number associated with this website is 2019.109. In 2024, https://wcml.org.uk/news/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2025.002.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.

Take Down Policy

Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.

If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.

If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the repository email.

Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.

Appraisal

Crawl was limited to domain of wcml.org.uk/shelf-life in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.

Existence and Location of Copies

Physical copies of the Shelf Life newsletter are available in the Tamiment Library non-circulating collection.

Accruals

New site crawls are accrued semiannually.

Collection processed by

Nicole Greenhouse

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-01-06 21:19:31 UTC.

Using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Language: Description is written in: English, Latin script.

Processing Information

https://www.wcml.org.uk/shelf-life/ was added to the web archives in 2018. The finding aid for the URL was created in 2019.

In 2024, crawling was stopped at https://www.wcml.org.uk/shelf-life/ and https://wcml.org.uk/news/ was added to the web archives and in 2025, added to the finding aid.

Revisions to this Guide

January 2024: Edited by Nicole Greenhouse to add additional administrative information and archived website

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives