This year, the annual Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) Conference went online for the first time. In the past, Special Collections has supported this conference… Read More »USTC Conference: Gender and the Book Trades Part I
Special Collections has been involved in a very exciting cataloguing project this year, in collaboration with the Institute of Intellectual History in St Andrews and… Read More »The Archive of European Intellectual Life
In our previous tours through the lantern slides of the General Rollo Collection we commented on titles and descriptions, on the portrayal of local people… Read More »The lantern slide tourist, week 4: fashionable spots
We are delighted to support the Virtual Alumni Weekend with a quick glance behind the scenes at the records we hold in the University archive… Read More »Virtual Alumni Weekend, 16-18 April 2021
Beth Dumas, Rare Books Cataloguer and a US citizen, takes a look at a fellow-countryman of note! When Joe Biden took office as President of… Read More »Benjamin Franklin as Printer
Over the last year, fourth-year International Relations and Arabic student Natalie Pereira, has enjoyed looking online at the photographic collections held by the University Libraries… Read More »Shopfronts in St Andrews
Julie Greenhill may be a familiar name if you have ever sent an enquiry to Special Collections. Here she reflects on a key role the… Read More »The anatomy of an enquiry, part 1: unlocking answers in the archive
In the second part of the blog series on the Franki Raffles Photography Collection, Weitian Liu picks several highlights of the collection as an introduction… Read More »The Franki Raffles Photography Collection Part II
In this blog, student Emma Sibbald shares highlights from her research into the reading practices of Elizabeth Foulis, a regular user of the University Library in… Read More »Miss Elizabeth Foulis, an Invisible Borrower
With the completion of a 26-month project, the Franki Raffles Photography Collection has now been fully catalogued. The online catalogue of the photographs in this… Read More »The Franki Raffles Photography Collection
Girls pulling Christmas cracker, ca.1950 (GMC-EC-11b). A 5×4 ins. plate glass negative from the George M Cowie Collection. Our last image brings us in from… Read More »December 25: Girls pulling Christmas cracker, ca.1950.
Icicles on Stob Binnein (Binean), January 1908 (RMA-S-464B). A quarter plate (4.25×3.25 ins.) film negative from the Robert Moyes Adam Scottish Landscape Photography Collection. Robert… Read More »December 24: Icicles on Stob Binnein (Binean), January 1908
