King James Library Lectures Finale
The last three talks in the University Library’s popular King James Library Lecture series will be delivered on November 14 and 15 as part of the Research Libraries UK Members’ meeting, which is being held in St Andrews for the first time.
Dr David Allan of the University’s School of History will lecture on The Georgian Subscription Library on Thursday 14 at 5.15pm, while Emeritus Professor John Sutherland from University College London will speak on Libraries and Nineteenth-Century Learning on Friday 15 at 10.00am. John Wilkin, Dean of Libraries at the University of Illinois, will close the series with The Meaning of the Library Today on Friday 15 at 3.15pm.
All three lectures will be held in the University’s Upper College Hall and will be open to the public.
The University Library is delighted to be hosting the 2-day meeting of the prestigious Research Libraries UK group, which it was invited to join in 2011. Consisting of the top research institutions in the UK and Ireland, RLUK is a major thought leader in the UK library sector, and works with its partners nationally and internationally to ensure that the UK has the best research support in the world. This November event will welcome to St Andrews the Directors and Deputy Directors of almost 30 national and academic libraries from throughout the UK.
Incorporating the last three King James Library Lectures into the programme of the RLUK meeting will provide a fitting finale for the series.