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Senior Library Assistant, Special Collections
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Behind the Scenes: The Cataloguing Forum visit The Photographic Unit
Collaboration with the Photographic Unit is key to so many of the activities that Archives and Special Collections undertake, helping us to promote our collections and make them more accessible. This meeting of the cataloguing forum consisted of Laura Stevens… Read More ›
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Digitisation, Orphan Works & Copyright: New Resource for the GLAM sector
By Kerry Patterson, Project Officer: Digitising the Edwin Morgan Scrapbooks. This blog was originally posted on the CREATe website available at: http://www.create.ac.uk/. CREATe is the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy, based at the University of… Read More ›
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The David Murray Book Collecting Prize, 2017
Follow in the footsteps of bibliophile David Murray by telling us about your collection! Do you collect novels? Comic books? Artists’ books? Biographies? Or posters or theatre programmes? Photograph albums, maybe? Whatever it is, if you collect the written word… Read More ›
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Popular Occulture in the Ferguson Collection, 1875-1947
Blog post by Jessica Watson, an MA Honours History of Art student on placement in Special Collections. I was selected to undertake an eight-week long placement with the Special Collections department of the University library as part of my art… Read More ›
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Colour Our Collections with Atalanta Fugiens
It’s Colour Our Collections week again (6-12 February), a week where Archives and Libraries make careful facsimiles of illustrations in their collections, medical, natural, whimsical, etc., and encourage people to get artistic with them! The facsimiles that is – colouring-in… Read More ›
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Theophilus Johnson and the art of self publishing
One great way to re-discover or learn about items in our collections is through answering enquiries from researchers, from all over the world, who find us through our online catalogue and want to know more about items they’ve found listed…. Read More ›
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Dress and Textiles in Special Collections
Originally written as a post for the University of Glasgow College of Arts Industry Engagement blog, in conjunction with our colleagues in Archive Services, this post discusses dress and textiles sources that you might not realise are preserved in our Special… Read More ›
