Author Archives
Senior Library Assistant, Special Collections
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William Hunter’s Tercentenary
23 May 2018 marks the 300th anniversary of William Hunter’s birth. Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) was an anatomist, physician, teacher of medicine and man-midwife. Today we view him as major figure in the Enlightenment and in the development of museums… Read More ›
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Explore Your Archive 2017
It’s Explore Your Archive time again! Explore Your Archive is a campaign coordinated jointly by The National Archives and the Archives and Records Association with the archives and records sector across the UK and Ireland where the aim is to… Read More ›
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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 ›
