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Senior Library Assistant, Special Collections

• The David Murray Book Collecting Prize 2018

  By Sam Gilchrist on October 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The David Murray Book Collecting Prize is now open to submissions from all current University of Glasgow students with an interest in collecting. This can consist of printed books, printed ephemera, manuscripts, photographic material, or a combination of these, with… Read More ›

• Dye-versity and #PerkinPatterns – an update!

  By Sam Gilchrist on June 28, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Guest blog by Dr Anita Quye, CChem MRSC, Senior Lecturer in Conservation Science and Head of History of Art, University of Glasgow. One year ago this month we published a guest blog on Anita’s Dye-versity project and put out a… Read More ›

• William Hunter’s Tercentenary

  By Sam Gilchrist on May 23, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• Explore Your Archive 2017

  By Sam Gilchrist on November 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Behind the Scenes: The Cataloguing Forum visit The Photographic Unit

  By Sam Gilchrist on May 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Digitisation, Orphan Works & Copyright: New Resource for the GLAM sector

  By Sam Gilchrist on April 27, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  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 ›

• The David Murray Book Collecting Prize, 2017

  By Sam Gilchrist on April 14, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  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 ›