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Library fines paid in on Friday 27th November – up to a total for the day of £1,000 – will go to the charity Book Aid International. Look out for the above poster displayed in the Main Library. Here is some information…
One of the lesser-known gems in our suite of e-resources is Electronic Enlightenment, an online collection of letters dating from the era of the Enlightenment. What is it? A huge collection of correspondence (much of…
Is digital the future for academic books? By Aileen Fyfe, @AileenFyfe, [email protected] As a historian who writes and reads academic books, I have a fond attachment to hard-copy books. Moreover, the physicality of…
Image by Laurence Winram This week is Academic Book Week (9-16 November). Various events and activities are being arranged at universities across the UK. Here at St Andrews a few academic and Library staff thought we…
Winners of the University Library’s inaugural book collecting prize were celebrated at an event in Parliament Hall last week. Our JD Forbes Book Collecting Prize is named in honour of […]
We have trial access to BMJ Learning until 11 November 2015. BMJ Learning offers high-quality continuing medical education for doctors and other healthcare professionals. It features hundreds of accredited,…
You regularly tell us that we need to do something about people reserving seats in the Library, for example that “Seat-hogging has to stop!“, explaining your frustration, asking us to prevent students ‘reserving’ study…
We now have access to two new multi-volume works in the Cambridge Histories series: The Cambridge World History and The Cambridge History of the Second World War. Cambridge Histories? This is one of the most…
The Library has arranged trial access to the eresource The Grand Tour. This digital collection of manuscript, visual and printed works allows readers to explore a range of sources on the history of travel. Taking the…
Last Monday (10th August) Gillian Hurst, who is in the final stages of an MLitt in Mediaeval Studies, delighted an audience at St Leonards’ Chapel with a recital from the […]