Summer conference season
We were delighted to be able to host two events in mid-August to support work by colleagues in the School of Divinity. On Friday 19 August the delegates attending the British New Testament Society Conference in St…
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THE ORIGINS OF PHOTOGRAPHY GREAT BRITAIN: ST ANDREWS, PART 2. PREPARING FOR JAPAN
In the first part of this blog, we told you about a major exhibition featuring loans from the Library’s photographic collections that opened earlier this month in Tokyo, Japan. It is standard practice for items…
The Origins of Photography Great Britain: St Andrews
Last week a major exhibition, The Origin of Photography Great Britain, on the birth of British photography opened in Japan at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. Curator Keishi Mitsui had been working on this exhibition…
LGBT History Month in the Library
Since 2005, the month of February has been observed as LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) history month in the UK. The aim of LGBT history month is to raise awareness of both LGBT history and the issues…
Turn over a new leaf – Veganuary
The Veganuary campaign is encouraging people to go vegan for the month of January. In recognition of this campaign the Main Library will have on display a number of texts relating to veganism and vegetarianism,…
Launch Event for the Marseille Middleton Holloway Collection
A special event to mark the gift of the Marseille Middleton Holloway Collection was held on 24th October 2017. We were thrilled to be able to welcome 13 of Holloway’s descendants to the University Library’s Napier…
St Andrews Photography Festival: Scots on the Green
In this final focus on the Library’s exhibitions for the St Andrews Photo Festival, 1-30 September 2017, we feature images of golf. Throughout Scotland, golf is ubiquitous. That’s not to say that there are merely lots…
Scottish Design and Innovation at St Andrews Photography Festival 2017
Eddie reflects on his quirky selection of photographs which will be on display in an outdoor exhibition on The Scores, during the St Andrews Photography Festival (1-30 September 2017). For centuries Scotland has been a…
St Andrews Photography Festival: Valentine’s Scottish Islands
This is the first of three posts highlighting images from the Library’s photographic collections to be featured in the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival, 1-30 September 2017. The exhibition on show in the…
St Andrews Photography Festival: Programme
This is the final post in our series about the St Andrews Photography Festival – you can see the previous posts in the series below: Robert Moyes Adam: Golf Photographic Collection: The Weighing Machine by Frank…