Sharin Schroeder spent two weeks in our reading room in July as part of the 2014 Visiting Scholarship Programme. In this fascinating blog post, she explains how studying our Andrew Lang collection […]
From Saturday the 11th of October, the Main Library is changing its opening hours during semester from 8am-2am Monday-Thursday, 8am-midnight Friday, 10am-midnight Saturday and 10am-2am Sunday; instead the building will…
Meme competition imagesKnowledge Unlatched is a collaborative, crowd-funded, model pilot which aims to enable open access for scholarly books in the arts and humanities.Many libraries around the world share a Title Fee…
To our enduring frustration, much of the academic publishing process is hidden from view unless of course you are having a paper published. At first thought this makes perfect sense, especially as an information…
When you are known as the whaling archivist here at Special Collections, it can be difficult to come up with a historical how-to which will not horrify or disgust readers. […]
9th October 1859:
Sunday. Beautiful day. In Lat 22.29.S. Long…
8th October 1859:
Saturday. Getting up the cable and bending it…
7th October 1859:
Friday. Fine day, Going about 3 or 4 knots. A…
Our next Visiting Scholars blog is from Liza Blake who spent three weeks in our reading room in July as part of the 2014 Visiting Scholarship Programme. It was a pleasure […]
The University was approached early this year by the daughters of a former long-serving minister of Martyrs Kirk. They wished to donate a new stained glass window that would celebrate work their father had done over…