24 Nov 2002

Mundus: Gateway to Missionary Collections in the UK
SOAS Library, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK
Supplied note: "SOAS Library is pleased to announce the launch of the Mundus Gateway, the on-line guide to missionary-related resources in the UK. Since the early eighteenth century missionaries have set out from Britain to evangelize the world. In so doing they have created or collected a wealth of documentation, including archives, personal papers, printed books and pamphlets, photographs, films, sound recordings and artefacts. The materials document the encounter between western missionaries and the peoples and terrain of Africa, Asia [82 collections identified and annotated by the 'Mundus' till Nov 2002 - ed.], the Pacific Islands [38 collections - ed.] and the Americas over a two-hundred-year period [...].
[...] The Mundus database contains summary descriptions of more than 400 collections held in over 50 institutions in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Each description provides content and contextual information, and details of finding aids and of access conditions. The database can be accessed in a number of ways: free-text searching, browsing by name, place and subject indexes and using a clickable map. [...] - cb."
URL http://www.mundus.ac.uk
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Caroline Brick (cb61@soas.ac.uk), forwarded by h-seasia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30