Turn over a new leaf – Veganuary
The Veganuary campaign is encouraging people to go vegan for the month of January. In recognition of this campaign the Main Library will have on… Read More »Turn over a new leaf – Veganuary
The Veganuary campaign is encouraging people to go vegan for the month of January. In recognition of this campaign the Main Library will have on… Read More »Turn over a new leaf – Veganuary
A special event to mark the gift of the Marseille Middleton Holloway Collection was held on 24th October 2017. We were thrilled to be able… Read More »Launch Event for the Marseille Middleton Holloway Collection
In this final focus on the Library’s exhibitions for the St Andrews Photo Festival, 1-30 September 2017, we feature images of golf. Throughout Scotland, golf… Read More »St Andrews Photography Festival: Scots on the Green
Eddie reflects on his quirky selection of photographs which will be on display in an outdoor exhibition on The Scores, during the St Andrews Photography… Read More »Scottish Design and Innovation at St Andrews Photography Festival 2017
This is the first of three posts highlighting images from the Library’s photographic collections to be featured in the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival, 1-30… Read More »St Andrews Photography Festival: Valentine’s Scottish Islands
This is the final post in our series about the St Andrews Photography Festival – you can see the previous posts in the series below:… Read More »St Andrews Photography Festival: Programme
This is the fifth post in a weekly series that highlights images featuring at the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival, 1 August – 11 September… Read More »St Andrews Photo Festival: Robert Moyes Adam
This is the third post in a weekly series highlighting images featuring at the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival, 1 August – 11 September 2016… Read More »St Andrews Photography Festival: The Weighing Machine (Franki Raffles, 1989)
On Sunday morning (10th May) a number of burgeoning and talented artists gathered at the Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther for the workshop entitled ‘Faces from… Read More »Faces from the Past: Whaling portraits workshop
Last week I travelled down to Cardiff, along with two 19th century books from our collections, to take part in what promised to be a… Read More »The Starry Messenger: two rare books head to Wales for a day in the limelight
Regular users of Special Collections will know that over the last 5 years or so we have been promising that our new Archive Catalogue was… Read More »At last! New Archive Catalogue finally online
In every working library, each day sees a struggle played out between order and chaos. It’s a fact of life that however hard librarians work… Read More »Theft, vandalism and hatred: 400 years of bad behaviour in the King James Library, part 2