Guest blogpost by Filipa do Rosario Andre, a junior honours History of Art student on placement in Special Collections. Filipa has been identifying examples of 16th and 17th century Venetian book illustration in our collections. Senior lecturer in Art History… Read More ›
Have you ever noticed that the illustrations in some books (the kind with shiny full-page colour plates) are printed separately from the text and grouped together in the middle or at the end of the book? Irritating isn’t it? The… Read More ›
When you think back to your favourite childhood book, what springs most readily to mind: the text, or the illustrations? Well for me at least, the illustrations win out. Since I loved reading Roald Dahl books growing up perhaps this… Read More ›
This series revisits our Book of the Month archive to highlight some of our favourite articles and explore the ASC collections they describe with fresh eyes. This article was originally published on April 2000 by Julie Coleman and the full article can still be found on our website in the Book… Read More ›
Below is a selection of books received by the Library in the weeks leading up to 17th February. For a complete listing of books received during this period see: New Books 170220 [xls] The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in… Read More ›
As UofGASC begin to welcome a new cohort of placement students, it seems a fitting opportunity to publish the work of one of last year’s Museum Studies students. Guest blog post by Antonios Chaliakopoulos, Museum Studies placement student I completed… Read More ›
Guest blog post by Lucy Janes, Master’s Student in Information Management & Preservation at the University of Glasgow. Books have their own biographies and the traces of their ‘lives’ can be found in records such as those of Blackie & Son Ltd, a Glasgow publishing company founded… Read More ›
Below is a selection of books received by the Library in the weeks leading up to 16th December. For a complete listing of books received during this period see: New Books 161219 [xls] From here to eternity : travelling the world… Read More ›
Below is a selection of books received by the Library in the week leading up to 13th May. For a complete listing of books received during this period see: New Books 130519 [xls] Potato / Rebecca Earle New York, NY :… Read More ›
Below is a selection of books received by the Library in the week leading up to 3rd September. For a complete listing of books received during this period see: New Books 030918 [xls] Sound worlds of Japanese gardens : an interdisciplinary… Read More ›
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