Echoes from the vault
The University Library’s Special Collections blog highlights items from the collections to explore their past and context.
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In this blog, Pilar Gil, Cataloguing and Documentation Officer, starts a new series looking at the General Rollo collection, a set of…
Date 29 April 2021
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We are delighted to support the Virtual Alumni Weekend with a quick glance behind the scenes at the records we hold in the University…
Date 16 April 2021
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This is the second part of a blog series about Special Collections’ remote enquiry service, and the types of questions we answer using…
Date 13 April 2021
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Benjamin Franklin as Printer
Beth Dumas, Rare Books Cataloguer and a US citizen, takes a look at a fellow-countryman of note! When Joe Biden took office as President of the United States this January, one of the first things he did was redecorate…
Shopfronts in St Andrews
Over the last year, fourth-year International Relations and Arabic student Natalie Pereira, has enjoyed looking online at the photographic collections held by the University Libraries and Museums. In this blog Natalie…
The anatomy of an enquiry, part 1: unlocking answers in the archive
Julie Greenhill may be a familiar name if you have ever sent an enquiry to Special Collections. Here she reflects on a key role the reading room team play in helping remote users. At Special Collections we offer a…