{"id":118,"date":"2016-10-31T16:58:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T20:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cricketresearchcentre\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:06:11","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cricketresearchcentre\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container-fluid page-wrapper site-font\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div>\n<h1 class=\"page-header\">About the Cricket Research Library<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cricketresearchcentre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/Images\/Layout\/front.jpg\" class=\"w-100\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"faculty-content-page\">\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div>\n<h3>The Cricket Research Library<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\tThe CLR James Cricket Research Centre Library is situated on the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies. &nbsp;It has been named in honour of Cyril Lionel Robert James, a great Caribbean scholar and an icon of cricket studies in the world.&nbsp; The library is located near the main entrance, opposite the 3 Ws Oval.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVirtual Library Tour<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\tA great way to experience studying and researching in the CLR James Cricket Research Centre is through a visit and a tour. If this is not possible we invite you to take a virtual tour of the library.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oBMWXdTWVmk\"> <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oBMWXdTWVmk?si=yalSjidwVDILWDFK\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div>\n<h3>Membership<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\tThe Centre primarily serves the information and research needs of the faculty, students and staff of the University of the West Indies as well as a select cricketing public.&nbsp; Patrons will need a valid UWI identification card to use the library.&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div>\n<h3>The Collection and Resources<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\tThe CLR James Cricket Research Centre Library is an open and closed stack facility. The Reference collection is housed in the Reading Room. &nbsp;The West Indian, archival and rare book collection are housed in closed access stacks.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tThe collection includes monographs, pamphlets, periodicals, newspaper clippings, journal articles, video tapes and DVDs. The Centre\u2019s special holdings include the CLR James manuscript for \u2018Beyond a Boundary\u2019, newspaper clippings of West Indian cricketers in England during the war years, photographs, letters, paintings and postcards and rare books. The library also houses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cricketresearchcentre\/collections\/stephen-alleyne-papers\/\">Stephen Alleynes\u2019s Papers<\/a> and a collection from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cricketresearchcentre\/collections\/sir-pelham-warner-papers\/\">Sir Pelham \u201cPlum\u201d Warner\u2019s Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tThere is also a digitized collection of the Barbados Cricketers\u2019 Annual dating from 1896-1913 which can be accessed from workstations at the CLR James Cricket Research Centre only.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div>\n<h3>Online Catalogue<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\tThere is an online catalogue which is available in the library.&nbsp; The library uses the Library of Congress Cataloguing Scheme. &nbsp;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Cricket Research Library The Cricket Research Library The CLR James Cricket Research Centre Library is situated on the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies. &nbsp;It has been named in honour of Cyril Lionel Robert James, a great Caribbean scholar and an icon of cricket studies in the world.&nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"About Us - CLR James Cricket Research Centre - The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill","description":"About the Cricket Research Library The Cricket Research Library The CLR James Cricket Research Centre Library is situated on the Cave Hill campus of the Univers"},"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cricketresearchcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cricketresearchcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cricketresearchcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cricketresearchcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cricketresearchcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cricketresearchcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cricketresearchcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cricketresearchcentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}