by Christina Devlin, Professor of English and Reading, Montgomery College, Maryland In April, I was a guest at Books and[…]
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Category: Guest Posts
Guest Post – Institutional Borrowing: Inventories, Registers, Receipt Books
By Dahlia Porter, University of Glasgow [This post is based on a talk I gave at the Books and Borrowing[…]
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by Robert MacLean, Assistant Librarian in Archives and Special Collections, University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections (ASC) at the[…]
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7 Pieces of Music to be Arranged: Women Borrowers and the First Female Cataloguer of the St Andrews Copyright Music Collection
Guest post by Dr Karen E McAulay, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland In 1801, the University of St Andrews started binding[…]
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Books, Borrowing, and the Bannatyne Club
By Kelsey Jackson Williams Not many people today would recognise the Bannatyne Club if you mentioned it in casual conversation,[…]
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Illuminating Libraries
A guest post from our partner Linda Cracknell I’d been enchanted with Innerpeffray for a long time, Scotland’s first public[…]
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Books and Borrowing and the First Scottish Enlightenment, a guest post by Kelsey Jackson Williams
Purchasing a book is, as we all know, very different from reading it. Too often, however, book historians are forced[…]
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