Last week the Lighting the Past team finished cataloguing the non-folio items of the St Andrews Collection. With some 2315 bib records and 3926 item records, this is the largest collection to date catalogued by the…
The Rare Book team is pleased to announce that the Hargreaves Collection has been fully catalogued on SAULCAT and awaits your reading pleasure. Geoffrey D. Hargreaves studied classics at Pembroke College, Oxford before…
During a grueling (if not long-lived) summer heat wave, the Lighting the Past team has kept nice and cool in Special Collections where we’ve been hard at work cataloguing our second collection. This time around, we…
Introduction to Lighting the Past The Lighting the Past project aims to catalogue the backlog of early and rare printed books held in the University Library’s Department of Special Collections – for only around one…
UPDATED 13 March 2013 One of the rare book team’s long-standing projects has been the creation of a rare Children’s Book Collection, assembled from a combination of new purchases and transfers from other collections…
This June, the Department of Special Collections launched Lighting the Past, a project to catalogue the 150,000 books not currently represented in the University Library’s catalogue, SAULCAT, or in larger databases…
In 1893, King Chulalongkorn ordered the first printing ever of the Tipitaka (or, “the three baskets,” the Pali canon which forms the doctrinal foundation of Theravada Buddhism) which had previously only existed in…
Last Wednesday, 13 June 2012, the University Library unveiled its plans for the online cataloguing of the large backlog of rare and early books found in the Department of Special Collections. This initiative, branded…
For some time the library has been working in partnership with staff in the School of English to develop a Virginia Woolf and Hogarth Press research collection. This development was approached from two sides: 1)…
Last weekend marked the close of another cataloguing project: bringing all of the records for our incunabula collection (pre-1501 printed works) up to a full level of description and to provide full indexed access to…