Donaldson Collection – fully classified after 104 years
The books in the Donaldson Collection, which was bequeathed to the Library by Principal Sir James Donaldson in 1915, have finally been fully classified to the Library of Congress scheme […]
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Copyright ABCs – ‘The Progress of a Water-Coloured Drawing’
Among the beautiful illustrations of the art books in the Special Collections Copyright Deposit Collection, classmark N (Fine Arts), one which stood out was the anonymous The Progress of a […]
Copyright ABCs – ‘The Scots Musical Museum’
The Lighting the Past team share their highlights from the ‘M’ section of the Copyright Deposit Collection. You can see the previous posts in the series here. While cataloguing the […]
Copyright ABCs – ‘The Art of Reading’
This week Lizzie reports on an item discovered by the Lighting the Past team from within the ‘L’ section of the Copyright Deposit Collection. You can see the previous posts […]
Lighting the Past Goodbyes!
On Tuesday, the Special Collections Division of the University of St Andrews Library celebrated the hard work of four Lighting the Past cataloguers who will be leaving the team over […]
Copyright ABCs – “The Clock Struck Four!!!”: Ashford v Thornton, Trial by Combat, and Nineteenth-Century Melodrama
We return to the Copyright Deposit ABC’s, as the cataloguing of this massive collection continues apace. For this instalment we are skipping past G (Geography, Anthropology, and Recreation) and H […]
Copyright ABCs – John Melish’s ‘Travels’
This week Ethan reports on an item discovered by the Lighting the Past team from within the ‘E’ and ‘F’ sections of the Copyright Deposit Collection. You can see the […]
Copyright ABCs – “This book is very ill used”: Student Marginalia in A Tour in Scotland
This week Emily reports on an item discovered by the Lighting the Past team from within the ‘D’ section of the Copyright Collection. You can see the previous post in […]
Copyright ABCs: Introduction and A, B and C
This week we have the first part of a new series by the Lighting the Past team – we will be publishing further posts in the series periodically throughout the […]
Show and Tell – Bird Books and Resources
In mid-May we held our final Show and Tell of the semester, following on from our previous event about treasures discovered by the Lighting the Past team. The event […]