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.
Back in March, we announced the names of this year’s University Library Special Collections Visiting Scholars. We have enjoyed getting to know the first of them over the last few […]
This week we have a follow-up post by Dr. Keelan Overton, a Library Special Collections Visiting Scholar in 2016 who returned to St Andrews in May 2018 as a Visiting […]
Hello again. In case you haven’t read my last post about interning at the University Library, my name is Henry, and I’m doing an internship in Library Communications this summer. I’m actually just about to finish the…
For many students – myself included – the Library is home. We’re in here every day during term time plugging away, finishing assignments, turning in essays. We associate the Library with work, and the building has…
The Special Collections Division of the University Library has an ongoing programme of boxing and housing collection items in custom-made enclosures of acid and lignin-free papers and boards. These enclosures […]
Today, the east end of St Andrews is dominated by the ruins of its former Cathedral. Once the largest building in Scotland, St Andrews Cathedral held the shrine of the […]
There has been a lot of research interest in the work of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson in the last few years. 2017 marked the centenary of his seminal text, On Growth […]
As part of the British Home Front week in St Andrews, the University Library’s Special Collections Division is hosting a drop-in session on the morning of Saturday 23 June, where […]
Rebecca Lawton (M.Litt Mediaeval History 2015) has been working on a collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts as part of a collaborative PhD between the University of Leicester and the British Library. […]
This week we present a letter from Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) to Bertie Peregrine, thirteenth Baron Willoughby (1555-1601) the Governor of Brill, the Netherlands in 1588. The letter is one […]