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Library Assistant, Special Collections

• Calling all students! Fancy winning a £200 cash prize?

  By slawler on May 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Calling all current University of Glasgow students: Did you make use of Special Collections or Archives over the past year? We know that many of you did and we would like to hear from you! Write a short blog on something… Read More ›

• Captain James Laskey and the Hunterian Museum – images now online

  By slawler on March 15, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  To celebrate the opening of the new Hunterian Art Gallery exhibition: ‘This Unrivalled Collection’: The Hunterian’s first catalogue, our latest Flickr set features relevant items from Special Collections, some of which feature in the exhibition. There will also be a… Read More ›

• New look at an old comic

  By slawler on December 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  One of Special Collections regular visitors and Reader in French at the University, Dr Laurence Grove, is currently working on an exhibition project with the Hunterian Art Gallery, provisionally titled Scotland and the Birth of Comics. It will feature items from… Read More ›

• Vox Populi: Elections, Voting and Representation in Early Modern Scotland

  By slawler on November 14, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  The latest lecture in the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies’ Vox Populi series is from Professor Keith Brown on Elections, Voting and Representation in Early Modern Scotland. While the voting landscape of the 21st century is quite different from… Read More ›

• We want your feedback!

  By slawler on October 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  From Monday 22nd October, we will be asking visitors to Special Collections and Archive Services to complete a short survey, as we take part in the Survey of UK Archives, which is organised by the Archives and Records Association of… Read More ›

• Bringing teaching to life

  By slawler on October 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

    From Mary Toft’s confession of 7 Sept. MS Hunter D324 folio 1. Making our collections more visible and encouraging researchers and tutors to use them is a big part of what we do in Special Collections. So when we were… Read More ›

• New online resource for British Armorial Bindings

  By slawler on July 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A new online resource for armorial bindings, which features a number of Special Collections bindings, has been launched at http://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/ Begun by John Morris and continued by Philip Oldfield (who visited Special Collections on a number of ocassions while working on… Read More ›

• Laing film artist in running for Turner Prize

  By slawler on May 1, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Glasgow-based artist Luke Fowler has been nominated for this year’s Turner Prize for his art film All Divided Selves (2011), the third in a trilogy of films which explore the life of  R.D. Laing. Luke has previously worked with the… Read More ›

• Back to school for Special Collections

  By slawler on April 25, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  As well as being available to researchers, items from our collections are also in demand for exhibitions. Currently, pamphlets from the Bissett Collection are on show at Scotland Street School Museum in The Glasgow Schools, part of the Glasgow International… Read More ›

• Friends of Glasgow University Library Talk

  By slawler on April 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  The latest Friends of Glasgow University Library talk will be held on Tuesday 24th April at 7pm, in the MacKenna Room, on level 7 of the library. Dr Hilary Macartney will be talking about the subject of her current research: The First… Read More ›