Kieran Cressy, October 2014-June 2017, reminisces about his time on Lighting the Past. I joined the Lighting the Past team on October 12th 2014 as a second year undergraduate studying Theology and Biblical Studies. I’m…
The Lighting the Past (LtP) project has come to an end, and last time we wowed you with stats about the project. This time we hear from past and present members of the team, as they reflect on their time on LtP. Marc…
In June 2013 phase 1 of the retrospective cataloguing project, Lighting the Past (LtP), began. Under the charge of a Lead Cataloguer, a workforce of part-time students drawn from the undergraduate and postgraduate…
The books in the Donaldson Collection, which was bequeathed to the Library by Principal Sir James Donaldson in 1915, have finally been fully classified to the Library of Congress scheme after 104 years, and are soon to…
This week Lizzie reports on an item discovered by the Lighting the Past team from within the ‘L’ section of the Copyright Deposit Collection. You can see the previous posts in the series here. The Art of Reading: Or,…
On Tuesday, the Special Collections Division of the University of St Andrews Library celebrated the hard work of four Lighting the Past cataloguers who will be leaving the team over the summer. The project was…
We return to the Copyright Deposit ABC’s, as the cataloguing of this massive collection continues apace. For this instalment we are skipping past G (Geography, Anthropology, and Recreation) and H (Social Sciences),…
This week Emily reports on an item discovered by the Lighting the Past team from within the ‘D’ section of the Copyright Collection. You can see the previous post in the series here. Thomas Pennant (1726 – 1798) was a…
This week we have the first part of a new series by the Lighting the Past team – we will be publishing further posts in the series periodically throughout the year. The Lighting the Past team is currently working their…
In mid-May we held our final Show and Tell of the semester, following on from our previous event about treasures discovered by the Lighting the Past team. The event featured a display of rare books relating to birds…