Author Archives

Special Collections, University of Glasgow Library

• Diving into Adam White’s Album Amicorum

  By Fiona Neale on April 11, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  A guest blog post by Clara Newkirk, a University of Strathclyde MSc Information and Library Studies student on placement in Archives and Special Collections during semester 2, working on Sp Coll RB 5118, recently purchased from Christian White, Modernfirsteditions Ltd…. Read More ›

• Doing First World War research in a pandemic.

  By Fiona Neale on November 11, 2020 • ( 1 )

  A guest blog post by Esther Lucy Janes, a postgraduate Information Management and Preservation on placement in Archives and Special Collections. As the UK teeters in and out of new COVID-19 restrictions, the aspiration of normality by Christmas, looks more… Read More ›

• Community commemoration: the First World War Centenary at Glasgow University

  By Fiona Neale on November 8, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  A guest post by Esther Lucy Janes, a postgraduate Information Management and Preservation student, on placement in Archives and Special Collections. Community commemoration: The First World War Centenary at Glasgow University As Remembrance Day approaches communities will be preparing to… Read More ›

• Archiving: Breaching barriers, and beyond the closed doors: Scottish Theatre Archive in lockdown (but not completely).

  By Fiona Neale on September 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  A guest blog post by Sian MacGregor. Alongside many buildings and facilities, Scottish Theatre Archive within the Special Collections was closed in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, one researcher reflects here on how accessing and utilising archives… Read More ›

• Talwin Morris

  By Fiona Neale on April 11, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  A guest blog post by Sanjida Tonni,  History of Art Junior Honours student on work placement in Special Collections. This project involved processing a new accession of 86 late 19th and early 20th century books with attractive art nouveau bindings,… Read More ›

• The Bayer Collection

  By Fiona Neale on June 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The latest foyer display in Special Collections on level 12 of the Library features three items from the collection of Theophilus Siegfried Bayer (1694-1738) and continues the focus on William Hunter (1718-1783) and his library in this tercentenary year of his… Read More ›

• Lucas Cranach the Elder and Reformation illustrations

  By Fiona Neale on April 30, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  This guest post is an accompaniment to the Flickr set “Seeing the Reformation: Religion and the Printed Image in Early Modern Europe” and was written by Jarkko Tanninen, Junior Honours in History of Art on Student Placement in Archives and… Read More ›

• Seeing the Reformation: Religion and the Printed Image in Early Modern Europe.

  By Fiona Neale on April 4, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  A guest blog post by Jarkko Tanninen,  History of Art Junior Honours student on work placement in Special Collections. I was fortunate to be selected for an eight-week long work placement at the University of Glasgow Library’s Special Collections department,… Read More ›

• The Glasgow Photographic Association Album (1860-1880)

  By Fiona Neale on April 7, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Blog post by Megan Hon, Junior Honours student majoring in History of Art, on placement in Special Collections   From January to March 2017, I was very lucky to be offered a placement at the University Library Archives and Special… Read More ›

• Discovered: 18th century vocabulary of endangered Evenki language.

  By Fiona Neale on December 2, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  A guest blog post by David Weston (Honorary Senior Research Fellow, College of Arts), who is preparing the first complete catalogue of the Bayer papers. In the  course of this work he has identified an early Evenki vocabulary and has produced… Read More ›