A very recent generous gift from Bruce and Suzie Kovner to the Special Collections Division of the University Library is on display in the King James Library this weekend. The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible was designed and…
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 University in 1943, the…
In every working library, each day sees a struggle played out between order and chaos. It’s a fact of life that however hard librarians work to impose order, opening the doors to users inevitably means that a measure…
In every working library, each day sees a struggle played out between order and chaos. It’s a fact of life that however hard librarians work to impose order, opening the doors to users inevitably means that a measure…
We have just celebrated the opening of our latest exhibition. ‘A Royal Foundation: 400 years of the King James Library’ celebrates the establishment in 1612 of a shared library for the whole University community in St…
Cross-posted from the original on the Museum Collections Blog of the University of St Andrews. The new temporary exhibition A Royal Foundation: 400 Years of the King James (a.k.a. #KJL400) opened on Saturday 8th of…
A guest post in advance of the Gateway Gallery exhibition: A Royal Foundation: 400 Years of King James Library. Colin Bovaird has studied and worked in the Library and here brings some recent memories of the…
On this day 400 years ago, 10 August 1612, three trunks full of books arrived by sea. The arrival of these books, a gift of almost 100 works from Queen Anne and Princess Elizabeth, mark the culmination of a royal…