Identity area
Reference code
SJCR/SJGR/2/17
Unique identifier
Title
Date(s)
- 1902-1997 (Creation)
Level of description
Subseries
Extent and medium
6 sub-sub-series.
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes suggestions books, correspondence, minutes, accounts, schemes and papers.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
The JCR is a constituted society of the College (its constitution is in the College's Standing Orders)
The Junior Combination Room or JCR is the room reserved for junior members' social activities, meetings and committees.
A Reading Room for the perusal of newspapers and periodicals had first been established in 1888 in the then ground floor set, A3 Third Court, adjoining the Library. The Library absorbed this area in 1902, and a new College Reading Room was established in the ground floor lecture room adjoining the east range of First Court, to be run by a committee of which the permanent Treasurer was a Council appointee, while three junior members were appointed each term by the committee of the General Athletics club.
Reorganization approved by Council in 1932 widened the junior representation on the committee and the Reading Room was now officially called the Junior Combination Room, which it has since remained, and was transferred to the ground floor of K First Court. (See Henry and Crook, Use and Occupancy of Rooms (1985) part 1.)