Emphasizes - The English-speaking Caribbean; the teaching and research programmes of the University.
Geographical coverage - all the West Indian islands, Bermuda, Guyana, French Guiana (Cayenne), Suriname and Belize and the Caribbean diaspora. Includes: Books, pamphlets, theses, microforms and other material in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
· Old and rare books and pamphlets on the Caribbean.
· Non-West Indian rare books and pamphlets.
Card catalogue of UWI Theses in author/title and subject sequences.
The West Indiana Database is an online index to articles found in non-West Indian and selected West Indian Journals, chapters from books, conference papers, off-prints and pamphlets. It can be accessed through the Library’s web-page.
Users must complete a request slip and wait for the item to be fetched.
Undergraduates should request available West Indian material from the Reserved Book Collection (RBC).
Readers are responsible for items issued to them and should not leave material unattended or pass on such material to other users.
All items issued from WI&SC must be used in the Elsa Goveia Reading Room.
Material from the Collections may be photocopied with permission and in compliance with copyright regulations.
Readers using manuscripts, maps, photographs or theses are required to sit at designated tables.
Readers must not mark, deface or damage any book or other Library material. Please use pencils, when consulting material from the Special Collections.
Diaries and letters, for example, West Indian Journey, February 17 - June 10, 1944, the diary of Sir Raymond Priestley. The diarist records his experiences as a member of the Committee on Higher Education in the West Indies, which made recommendations concerning the establishment of the University College of the West Indies.
Literary manuscripts of Caribbean writers, of which the major holdings are the manuscripts of Michael Anthony, Erna Brodber, Wilson Harris, John Hearne, Orlando Patterson and Derek Walcott.
Photographs of the University of the West Indies including views from the 1950's which capture and document its early history and developments. Many are the work of Amador Packer, outstanding Jamaican photographer.
Prints include Album Pintoresco de la Isla Cuba, a rare and valuable volume of coloured prints depicting nineteenth century Cuba.
Mon. - Fri.: 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 am.
The Library is closed on Public, University Holidays, on the Saturday during the Easter Weekend and half day on Christmas and New Year’s Eve.