Our Map Galleries highlight a number of significant items from the map collections using high resolution zoomable images. The latest addition is a selection of indexes to the County Series of the Ordnance Survey. The County Series of Scotland was… Read More ›
Please take part in our short survey about Turnitin What do you think of Turnitin? Have you found it helpful when learning how to write an academic essay? Did it help you understand what we mean by plagiarism? What support… Read More ›
The header image this summer has been made available due to the generosity of Gordon Cunningham, its copyright holder. The image was taken on the 11th May 2009 and shows the trees, in one of the University’s many green spaces,… Read More ›
The newly published Library Review for 2009 has some fascinating facts about us. Did you know that there were 1,391,443 visitors to the Library in academic session 2008/09? This is the equivalent of almost 2.5 times the total population of… Read More ›
The University of Glasgow Library is using LibQUAL+ to measure your perceptions of the quality of our service and to identify the most important areas where we might need to improve. The survey also measures the range of information we… Read More ›
The Library invites users to add comments when they are completing the Libqual survey. A few people have mentioned that they think the computers in the Library can’t be used after midnight and we’d like to reassure you that you… Read More ›
As part of my Graduate Traineeship I recently visited a Clyde shipyard with David Powell, Surveying Officer of the Business Archives Council of Scotland. We had planned to make a quick pick up of the records the business had identified… Read More ›
Recently I accompanied David Powell (BACS Surveying Officer) to a lace mill located in Ayrshire. The mill is scheduled for demolition and we were there to survey any archive material that may still be in the building. Unfortunately the building… Read More ›
Participants of the LibQUAL+™ 2009 survey were given the option to enter a draw to win a £50 token for Borders Books. The winners were Hannah K. Hamilton, Paul Bastock and Olivia Robinson.
As part of my Graduate Traineeship within Archive Services, I recently shadowed David Powell (BACS) on an archive survey of a fabric manufacturer in Ayrshire to provide advice on preserving and managing their archives. The archive contained thousands of fabric… Read More ›
