opening of the rossell special collection

 a friendly crowd gathered last night at goldsmiths college to celebrate the opening of the deac rossell special film collection at the library













beautifully presented by special collections head jacqueline cooke and smoothly organized by richard bolley, deac's gift to his department and the greater college community has made the news in the nicest possible way







 
speeches from the warden, professor geoffrey crossick, and dr cooke were cheerful and down to the point that this is a great assett to the library with far reaching subjects from early german silent movies to international film studies.

people looking at the books, posters and broschures probably had the same kind of question: why is he giving this great stuff away? but although the answer 'because there is no space left in the house' was freely supplied by the wife nobody seemed to believe her

friends and colleagues had travelled far to be there

and deac's home department had sent the usual suspects

so there was ample provision of gossip and story telling

and because of the prospect of a delicious icecream later on in meze mangal even the junior photographer and occasional library help was happy - inwardly, that is...

publish or perish

yes, you too may have asked yourself what my dear husband actually does with his spare time when he's not lecturing in his famous courses or taking care of the many demands that city life, sax and child present to him







well - while it is fair to say that he does loiter on the sofa a good deal he's not only reading books - the man actually writes them

and just, -just! - before the house truly collapses under the weight of thousands of film books and magazines - he gives them to his college as a major donation

and they all live happily ever after...

yep!

 








(take a look at this fantastic list of publications in the picasa window on the right and come to the goldsmiths library one of these days to admire the rossell collection!)