On Thursday, 1 November 2012, a day conference dedicated to Andrew Lang will be held in Upper College Hall, St Salvator’s Quad, University of St… Read More »Andrew Lang (1844-1912): a Centenary Celebration
Next Wednesday, 24 October 2012, Professor Edith Hall, King’s College London, will be giving the next installment in the 3 years-long lecture series of King… Read More »King James Library Lecture: Professor Edith Hall and ‘Adventures in the Libraries of the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds’
A guest post in advance of the Gateway Gallery exhibition: A Royal Foundation: 400 Years of King James Library. Colin Bovaird has studied and worked… Read More »A Split Personality? The double life of the King James Library
Pasilia, Helsinki, Finland. These first two days at the grand pow-wow of the world’s leading librarians has been intense and great, and has also come… Read More »IFLA WLIC 2012 Helsinki days 1 & 2 wrap-up and perspective
On this day 400 years ago, 10 August 1612, three trunks full of books arrived by sea. The arrival of these books, a gift of… Read More »A Royal Foundation: 400 years of the King James Library — a new exhibition, coming soon!
Last Wednesday, 13 June 2012, the University Library unveiled its plans for the online cataloguing of the large backlog of rare and early books found… Read More »“Lighting the Past”, a new initiative for the cataloguing of the rare books of the University of St Andrews, launches!
The University Press Office announced this weekend that on Wednesday, 16 May 2012, Sir Sean Connery, film director Murray Grigor OBE, and Principal and Vice-Chancellor… Read More »Sean Connery tells the story of St Andrews: “Ever to Excel”
Since coming to Scotland in 2010, I’ve been wanting to make the pilgrimage to a place that all librarians this side of Hadrian’s Wall have… Read More »Day trip to a library literally in the middle of nowhere: Innerpeffray Library
On Wednesday, 25 April 2012, Rachel Hart (Muniments Archivist and Deputy Head of Special Collections) and post-graduate placement student Ian Lumsden met with members of… Read More »Reactions from an afternoon spent with members of the Kate Kennedy Fellowship
Our Photographic Collections team was hard at work yesterday installing an exhibition in St Andrews Public Library for this weekend’s StAnza Festival. The exhibition, entitled… Read More »CREATIVE CAPTURE: Exhibition open for StAnza!
The next installment of the King James Library Lectures is this upcoming Monday, 19 March 2012, at 5:15pm in School II, St Andrews. Professor Marina… Read More »Professor Marina Warner, University of Essex, to speak on “The Library in Fiction” at next King James Library Lecture
