In advance of next year’s J.D. Forbes collecting prize, the Library is running a collecting competition of our own. Your collection can be anything – books on a theme (these can be books owned by you or owned by the…
The Christmas vacation and inter-semester break are coming up, so to try to help you plan ahead, our revised opening hours can be found…
In October 1942, the University Librarian George H Bushnell, amused the University Celtic Society with a ghost story which, according to…
Bringing in collections Incoming university collections are routinely checked for dirt, mould and insect activity before being cleaned,…
Have you ever come across a journal article or book and wanted to quickly find out whether or not you have access to it? You’ve maybe found an institutional login, successfully logged in, and then found you can’t…
This year is the 250th anniversary of Phillis Wheatley’s work Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, the first volume published by an African American woman in English. Despite racial prejudice, Phillis’s…
A blog post by Elizabeth Hayslett, volunteer in University Collections. The history of the University of St Andrews spans over 600 years, and St Andrews University Collections holds and cares for much of the…
