After working as User Experience and Communications Manager for the University's Library, Beth joined Digital Communications as Senior Web Content Editor in 2023. As a content editor, Beth will work with colleagues across the University to develop online information and improve user experience. She has an avid interest in travel, art and golden retrievers.
Do you have data that you wish to/need to preserve and/or share? If so, please complete our questionnaire and we may be able to help. What is a data repository and why do we need one? As part of the University’s…
In the following post John Cawthorn talks about his interest in The Great War and why he chose to deposit his collection of WWI materials with the University of St Andrews Library The genesis of The Russell Cawthorn…
This week we are shopping with the Anstruthers of Balcaskie, a family who have been in Fife since the 12th century, their seat being the mansion house of Balcaskie near […]
This June marks 100 years since the start of World War I. To commemorate the Centenary of ‘The Great War’, the University of St Andrews Library has decided to display materials from our collections for Library users…
For this week’s how-to post, I’ve taken some inspiration from one of our quirkiest collections, that of the Reverend John Beveridge (1857-1943). Beveridge gifted his library and archive to the […]
This semester’s winner is Andrew Morris, MPhys in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics student. Ewan McCubbin (Assistant Director (Liaison & User Services)) presents Andrew with the prize! Andrew filled in one of our…
RGU placement students at Library bake sale l-r: Adriana, Elizabeth (me), Rachel I’ve been here at the Main University Library for the past 4 weeks on a work placement from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen as part…
Four weeks ago, we described how to make a linen shift using the directions in Robert Byfield’s Sectum: the Universal Directory in the Art of Cutting, published in 1825. This […]
Image courtesy of University of St Andrews Library (ms38426/3) 2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. Over the next four years the Library will highlight those items in our…
This week’s How-to post gave an excuse for our two departmental home-brewers, Marc and Daryl, to stretch their boundaries to adapt a strange recipe for “Scurvy-grass Ale” found in an […]