Dr Erna Brodber, writer-in-residence for the academic year 2013-14 is an accomplished author, historian and social scientist whose creative and academic works have been published to wide acclaim. Her novels include The Rainmaker's Mistake (2006), Louisiana (1994), Myal (1988) and Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (1980).

Abeng: began publication at the University of the West Indies, Mona in response to the Black Power and protest movement that emerged after Dr. Walter Rodney, a UWI lecturer was prohibited from landing in Kingston on October 15th, 1968 after attending a Black Writers conference in Montreal, Canada.

This collection of black and white photographs was extracted from the Archibald Cooper Collection. They were taken in 1938-1939 when Cooper and his wife undertook anthropological research among the Maroons of Accompong. The images were digitized from the negatives which were deposited along with his field notes. They were intended to be included in his doctoral thesis. However, his studies were interrupted by the war (1939-1945) and were never completed.

Finding aids provide guides to the items in select manuscript collections located in the Special Collections. The following finding aides are available: