Today is World Book Day and to celebrate we wanted to give you a glimpse at the book making process through photographs from our publishing archives. We have records from several publishers, most notably Blackie & Sons based in… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘books’
New way to guide students to learning resources – pilot
Under the direction of the University Learning and Teaching Committee, the University of Glasgow will be piloting the use of the Talis Aspire Campus Edition software during 2012/13. A team of people drawn from the Colleges, the SRC, Library, Academic… Read More ›
New Books in the Library – Week Beg. March 19th 2012
Below is a selection of books recently received by the Library. See also: full list of new books for week beg 19 March 2012 , including links to the individual records for each one [PDF] Politics and anti-realism in Athenian… Read More ›
Divine Write: An exhibition to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible
Divine Write: the King James Bible and Scotland, an exhibition celebrating the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, is currently taking place in Glasgow’s Mitchell Library. It will run from 9th September 2011 to 14th January 2012. The majority… Read More ›
New Books in the Library
Below is a selection of books recently received by the Library. This selection is part of a larger collection of recently received books currently on display on Level 3 of the Main Library. Books are available on this display for… Read More ›
Provenance – New virtual exhibition
A new virtual exhibition about provenance, or the ownership history of books, has been added to the Special Collections Department website today. As we have highlighted in previous blog entries, many of the books now in the department have fascinating… Read More ›
Robert Burns’ ‘Pocket-companion’
Special Collections staff have recently become aware of a fascinating volume with an intriguing provenance. Identified during routine cataloguing, The excise officer’s pocket companion, was previously owned by one of Scotland’s favourite poets, Robert Burns (1759-1796). Published in Edinburgh in… Read More ›
New collection of self-help books on level 3
Student Counselling and the library have got together to introduce a new collection of self-help books. The collection covers a wide range of topics from exam stress to assertiveness skills. You can find it on level 3 in… Read More ›
Essential Library Basics For All
A new, multi media, Moodle course is now available to all staff and students of the University. We hope it will guide all new users of the Library through their first few weeks here. The course covers the following… Read More ›
Elsevier Etextbooks Trial
We have been given trial access to a collection of core medical and nursing textbooks published by Elsevier. These Elsevier Etextbooks can be found at http://www.elsevier-etextbooks.com. If you are on campus at a University computer you should be able to… Read More ›
