Interning at the Library “so is that just like…sorting out books?” This is the question I have been asked numerous times when discussing my summer plans with friends. My name is Alison and given that I don’t spend…
This is a guest post by Maxine Branagh- one of our Visting Scholars for 2016. She is a second year PhD candidate at the University of Stirling. Her thesis is […]
52 weeks of Reading the Collections has come to an end – thanks to everyone who contributed, read, and shared our posts over the past year! We are ending the series with a visual index:
Life can be dangerous for a book. Someone might thoughtlessly pull it off a shelf by the top of its spine, bash its corners, ignore its aging leather, not to […]
To celebrate the opening of our new Research Library in 2014, the University of St Andrews instituted a new scheme of visiting scholarships. These scholarships are intended to underwrite the […]
I am that man who with a luminous look Sits up at night to write a ruminant book. I am that man who with a furrowed frown Thinks harshly of […]
On 10 June 2014 Lighting the Past celebrated its first birthday, when Phase 1 cataloguing on the programme began officially. Over this last year we’ve achieved much, having catalogued three […]
In the following post John Cawthorn talks about his interest in The Great War and why he chose to deposit his collection of WWI materials with the University of St Andrews Library The genesis of The Russell Cawthorn…
For this week’s how-to post, I’ve taken some inspiration from one of our quirkiest collections, that of the Reverend John Beveridge (1857-1943). Beveridge gifted his library and archive to the […]
In the summer of 2013, the University Library set out to capture the reactions of academic and library staff when encountering their favourite items from the Special Collections Division. For this […]