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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

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Rules for borrowing books from Simson's bequest

Robert Simson’s Books at the University of Glasgow

20 June 2022 Kit Baston Books, Partners

One of the many delights of working on the Books and Borrowing project is the discovery and inclusion of more[…]

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Poetry: A Reflection

28 March 2022 Katie Halsey Books

21 March 2022 was World Poetry Day. The Books and Borrowing team were either observing the strike action called by[…]

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Image of a woman with an elaborate headdress who is reading a book that is balanced on a globe.

International Women’s Day 2022

8 March 2022 Katie Halsey Books, Borrowers

Today, 8 March, 2022 is International Women’s Day, and I’m therefore going to take the opportunity to reflect a little,[…]

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Il étoit une fois…: The Advocates Library and the ‘Le Cabinet des Fées’

3 March 2022 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers

When I began transcribing the borrowing registers of the Advocates Library, I expected to find that law reports, Session Papers,[…]

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Frontispiece and title page of the 1849 edition of Self-Control.

Forgotten Best-Sellers: Mary Brunton’s Self-Control (1811)

7 February 2022 Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

In her blog last week, Katie Halsey introduced the first of a new series within the Books and Borrowing blog:[…]

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Forgotten Best-Sellers: John Moore’s Zeluco (1789)

31 January 2022 Katie Halsey Books, Forgotten Best-Sellers

In this blog, I am initiating a new thread in our blogposts, which we’re calling ‘Forgotten Best-Sellers’, in homage to[…]

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Anatomy of a Holding: Robert Burns at the Wigtown Subscription Library

24 January 2022 Gerard McKeever Books, Holdings, Partners

The accounts of the Wigtown Subscription Library in Galloway register a payment of one pound, eleven shillings and sixpence for[…]

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Christmas in Kirkwall

6 December 2021 Katie Halsey Books, Borrowers

As the festive season approaches, I thought I would write something to get us all in the mood for Christmas.[…]

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A First Look at the Advocates Library

22 November 2021 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers, Partners

We have now taken delivery of a first set of images from the borrowers’ receipt books of the Advocates Library[…]

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Numbers, Focus and Prioritisation

18 October 2021 Matt Sangster Books, Borrowers, Holdings

Over the last few weeks, the Books and Borrowing team have been working on a problem of which we were[…]

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