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Historical Glasgow map reproductions now available
We are very pleased to announce that high quality reproductions of some of the highlights of the Map Collections covering Glasgow are now available from the Online Shop of the University. You’ll find privately surveyed maps showing Glasgow in 1778 and 1828, as well as the first Ordnance Survey of Glasgow in 1865. This initial … Continue reading
Higher Education news
England & Wales: The Government has published a Higher Education white paper “Students at the Heart of Education” detailing planned reforms to Universities. The Russell Group (of which the University of Glasgow is a member) has published its response to the white paper. Scotland: The Scottish Government has launched a consultation looking at changing … Continue reading
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (13/6/11)
Details of another ten books are now available on the project website: Turrecremata, Johannes de: Expositio super toto psalterio Strassburg: [Printer of the 1481 'Legenda Aurea'], 23 Apr. 1482 Scopesus, Bartholomaeus: De arte punctuandi dialogus [Paris]:Antoine Denidel, [between 1498 and 7 Sept. 1499] Facetus Paris: Nicole de la Barre, [ca. 1495-97] Magni, Jacobus: Sophologium [Strassburg: … Continue reading
Euing Ballads now online
Euing 1.18 Our major collection of black letter broadside ballads, part of the Euing Collection, has been digitised and made available online. Broadsides can be described as a single sheet of paper printed on one side. The Euing ballads date from the 16th and 17th centuries, during which time the ‘black letter’ or Gothic script … Continue reading
End of an Era- Pontecorvo Demolition
Ponte outside the newly named Pontecorvo Building In 1995 the Genetics Building was renamed as the Pontecorvo Building in honour of Professor Guido Pontecorvo (1907-1999), the University’s first Professor of Genetics who worked at the University from 1955 to 1968. The building was originally designed by Basil Spence & Partners in association with Peter Glover … Continue reading
Friends of Glasgow University Library – new events
The Friends of Glasgow University Library have unveiled an interesting programme of talks and events for 2011, listed in our events calendar on the Library website and in the Friends new illustrated Newsletter. You can find out all about the work the Friends do and decide whether you’d like to befriend the Library yourself on … Continue reading
Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: H. W. Batley
This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a series of sketches by H. W. Batley. Henry William Batley (1846-1932) was an artist and furniture and textile designer most widely associated with the Aesthetic Movement. A pupil of B. J. Talbert, Batley designed furniture for Collinson & Lock. He also designed … Continue reading
Enlighten: How to bake an embedded institutional repository
We’ve added another new video to our YouTube channel. Narrated by Robbie Ireland and Toby Hanning this is a post conference recording of a Pecha Kucha style presentation delivered to the RLUK Conference 2010. The presentation shows how the University of Glasgow Enlighten service has transitioned from being a basic institutional repository to being a … Continue reading
Friday gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Edward VIII
This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a design by Paris-based designer Hélène Gallet from 1937 and was intended to celebrate the proposed coronation of Edward VIII. But just a few months into his reign, Edward caused a constitutional crisis by proposing to marry an American divorcée named Wallis Simpson. The prime … Continue reading
Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Art Nouveau
We have been working on the project to catalogue the thousands of sketches and patterns that make up the design archive of the Stoddard – Templeton Collection for almost a month now, and even in this short time, we have already discovered lots of interesting, varied and beautiful designs – so many in fact, that … Continue reading
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