600 Years of Book Collecting, Issue 2: The Natural World — Coming Soon!!
The second issue of 600 Years of Book Collecting will be available for sale from the Main Library next Wednesday, the 16th of October. This issue is focused on books […]
The second issue of 600 Years of Book Collecting will be available for sale from the Main Library next Wednesday, the 16th of October. This issue is focused on books […]
The Rare Book team is pleased to announce that the Hargreaves Collection has been fully catalogued on SAULCAT and awaits your reading pleasure. Geoffrey D. Hargreaves studied classics at Pembroke […]
What is 600 Years of Book Collecting? To commemorate the 600th anniversary of the founding of the University of St Andrews, the University Library has developed a six-part publication that […]
During a grueling (if not long-lived) summer heat wave, the Lighting the Past team has kept nice and cool in Special Collections where we’ve been hard at work cataloguing our […]
In November 2011 a post on this blog highlighted Theodor de Bry’s Grand Voyages. This is a hefty and multi-faceted tome, and, as a reprographic technician, I was encouraged to […]
Introduction to Lighting the Past The Lighting the Past project aims to catalogue the backlog of early and rare printed books held in the University Library’s Department of Special Collections […]
The Women’s British Open is the leading Major Golf Championship recognised by both the Ladies European Tour and the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Begun in 1976, this is only the […]
I’ve been doing some work in the stacks lately with our interns and have been focusing some attention on our 17th century reserve collections (around 5,ooo volumes) which remain largely […]
We have had a busy few weeks supporting our academic colleagues during sunny conference season. The 600th anniversary has provided a big draw for conferences to St Andrews this summer. […]
This year’s “52 Weeks of …” thread has now come to a close and it is time, once again, to finish the series with our image index. Last year’s “52 […]