The library hosted a visit from Wenlan Chen, the Chief Librarian of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, South China Business College, this week. She was accompanied by Mr and Mrs Haihong Chen of Kangda School, Mr Chen acting as interpreter and Professor Henry Wong, Emeritus Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, here at Glasgow. Lesley Richmond, Archives Services, showed the visitors around. Wenlan Chen toured the new library facilities and discussed areas of mutual interest such as the student experience, facility management, IT provision, space utilisation, opening hours and staff expertise and work patterns. The tour was rounded off with a visit to Special Collections to view a display of Chinese material which included part of the collection of Theophilus Gottlieb Siegfried Bayer (1694-1738), sinologist, and Professor of Greek and Roman Antiquities at St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1726-1738). His library was sold by his widow and subsequently purchased by William Hunter (1718-1783) and incorporated into his collection. Under the terms of Hunter’s will, his library and other collections remained in London for several years after his death and finally came to the University in 1807.
Categories: Archive Services (GUAS)
Tags: China, Guangdong, library visit, Special Collections, Theophilus Gottlieb Siegfried Bayer, William Humter
Related Articles
-
Calling all students! Fancy winning a £200 cash prize?
- The Frenchman Fighting Forward, by Carol Hunter
-
The International Heritage Project: South East Asia GRAB Lunch
-
Aubrey Fair Boyd, by Fiona Scott
- ‘The Workers’ Coast’ and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd
-
Students: join the Sp Coll and Archives blogathon!
Thank you very much for placing news about our visit to Glasgow University Library on 17th August 2010! We were deeply impressed by everything that we saw at your wonderful library and have learned many new things from your library. We are grateful to Mrs. Helen Durndell, Ms.Louise Johnston, and Ms.Lesley Richmond for their very good arrangement for our visit. We were so well received on 17th August that we could not forget our visit to this Library in the University of Glasgow! — CHEN Haihong
I am very glad that you enjoyed your visit.
Lesley Richmond
We have already returned to Guangzhou China.
We left Glasgow on 16th August. I had not
visited this website until I came back home.
Our visit to your library really impressed
us deeply. Thank you for all again!