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.
We are very sorry for the inconvenience. As we are taking part in Fife Doors Open Day, the Thomson Reading Room will be closed all day Sunday 2 September for researchers wishing to study. Please join us in the Main…
In the latest blog from the Preserving the World’s Rarest Books project, Michela Petris, a student studying at the Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy and a USTC volunteer in […]
All sites, including Main Library and Martyrs Kirk, will close early, at 1600, on Friday 24 August. Sites will return to normal opening from Saturday 25 August, please check our web pages for full information. 24 hour…
This week we present a manuscript of the sonnet ‘Fancy in Nubibus. Or The Poet in the Clouds’ by the poet, critic and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). The document […]
You can continue to access electronic material through SEEKER or the A-Z list of databases while SAULCAT is unavailable. Please also use SEEKER to search for books and material held in the Library building – the…
2018 marks the 200th Anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’. In honour of this anniversary, Dr Katie Garner of the School of English takes a look at the […]
Last November, the archive team of the University Library’s Special Collections Division began work on the ‘Logjam’ project. The ‘Logjam’ methodology is based on a survey undertaken back in 2003 […]
The Main University Library building will be closed early at 1900 on Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 August. This is to allow for essential works to create additional study spaces (over the summer we will be adding 71 new…
Emily Brontë lived for just thirty years (1818-1848), and published one novel, Wuthering Heights, and a small number of poems. Both during her short life and throughout the much longer […]
In 2017 the University of St Andrews Library was privileged to be entrusted with two albums containing letters and autographs from some of the most illustrious names in history, art […]