Summer conference season
We were delighted to be able to host two events in mid-August to support work by colleagues in the School of Divinity. On Friday 19 August the delegates attending the British New Testament Society Conference in St…
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Click and collect update
In preparation for the reopening of the Main Library on Monday 5 September, the Click and Collect service will be changing. In order to finish essential works, we will not be able to access the collections in the Main…
Research through survey: A book conservation project
In March earlier this year, I was honoured to visit the University Collections reading room at the University of St Andrews Library to explore some volumes in the collection which had been previously conserved. To give…
Certeine matters concerning the realme of Scotland (1603)
We are delighted that students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland’ module (MO4807) have once again submitted blog posts as part of their course. Here is the next part of a series of…
The 1581 Reprint of Sir David Lindsay’s A Dialogue betweene Experience and a Courtier: Evidence of the Popularity and Influence of Scottish Poetry in Elizabeth’s England
We are delighted that students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland’ module (MO4807) have once again submitted blog posts as part of their course. Here is the next part of a small…
NEW – trial of Statista
The Library has a trial to the Statistics data service, Statista. The trial ends on 10th October 2022. Statista provides access to over 1 million statistics and facts, from over 20,000 sources, providing insights into…
De Maria Scotorum regina (1571)
We are delighted that students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland’ module (MO4807) have once again submitted blog posts as part of their course. Here is the next part of a small…
Open Championship in St Andrews 2022
The 150th Open Golf Championship will be held in St Andrews from 14-17 July 2022. To coincide with this event, the University, in conjunction with the local community council, will be holding a special ceremony on the…
RTI imaging fragments of ‘The Romances of Kyng Alisander’, strays from the Auchinleck manuscript
Continuing the series of blog posts on the recent RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) workshop, Phoebe MacIndoe looks at the fragments of ‘The Romances of Kyng Alisander’. The advantages to using digitised…
Database trials – Historical News Sources
The Library currently has trial access to three databases: African Newspapers Series I and II, 1800-1925 Through eyewitness reporting and editorials, letters, poetry, advertisements, matrimony and death notices, this…