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…
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…
In order to write four influential books on the history of chemistry, St Andrews’ Professor John Read (1884-1963) assembled a remarkable collection of primary sources. Read, a brilliant organic chemist who specialised…
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…
Cataloguing the backlog of early and rare printed books held in the Special Collections Division of the University Library can be a source of surprises. We have to admit, the majority of the books we work with are not…
Of all the collections to be catalogued by the Phase 1 team, the Shewan Collection will probably be the only one where every item has passed through my hands as lead cataloguer. As this is something which rarely…
On 10 June 2014 Lighting the Past celebrated its first birthday, when Phase 1 cataloguing on the programme began officially. Over this last year we’ve achieved much, having catalogued three named collections in full…
On the 15th of May, Hermine Lefebvre, USTC/ENSSIB intern for 2014, completed a wonderful cataloguing project which has seen all of St Andrews’ 17th century editions of Athanasius Kircher added to the online catalogue.…
The Lighting the Past team has completed its fourth collection to date! This collection belonged to the Reverend Frederick Crombie and was donated to the Library by his sister in 1890. Approximately 2,000 volumes of…