This year, the annual Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) Conference went online for the first time. In the past, Special Collections has supported this conference with a live show and tell – delegates could see…
Special Collections has been involved in a very exciting cataloguing project this year, in collaboration with the Institute of Intellectual History in St Andrews and École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in…
In our previous tours through the lantern slides of the General Rollo Collection we commented on titles and descriptions, on the portrayal of local people and of local animals. This week, our virtual travels will bring…
We are delighted to support the Virtual Alumni Weekend with a quick glance behind the scenes at the records we hold in the University archive about former students and some of the information that they reveal. All…
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…
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…
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…
In the second part of the blog series on the Franki Raffles Photography Collection, Weitian Liu picks several highlights of the collection as an introduction to this substantial body of work. Instead of offering an…
In this blog, student Emma Sibbald shares highlights from her research into the reading practices of Elizabeth Foulis, a regular user of the University Library in the 1800s. In early-nineteenth century Scotland, there…
With the completion of a 26-month project, the Franki Raffles Photography Collection has now been fully catalogued. The online catalogue of the photographs in this collection is now available on the Special Collections…