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An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers

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Books and Borrowing 1750-1830

Category: Guest Posts

Collections Management as Borrowing-record Stand-in in the Australian Subscription Library

10 October 2022 Kit Baston Guest Posts

By Brittani Ivan, PhD Candidate at Western Sydney University My work is something of a departure from this website’s usual[…]

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Guest Post – An Overview of Glasgow in the Eighteenth Century

23 May 2022 Kit Baston Guest Posts

by Dr Craig Lamont, University of Glasgow In April, the Books and Borrowing project examined a swathe of material relating[…]

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Guest Post – Event Horizons: Books and Borrowing in Eighteenth Century Glasgow

16 May 2022 Kit Baston Events, Guest Posts

by Christina Devlin, Professor of English and Reading, Montgomery College, Maryland In April, I was a guest at Books and[…]

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Guest Post – Institutional Borrowing: Inventories, Registers, Receipt Books

3 May 2022 Kit Baston Events, Guest Posts

By Dr Dahlia Porter, University of Glasgow [This post is based on a talk I gave at the Books and[…]

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Guest Post – University of Glasgow Library borrowing registers, beyond the borrowing: what additional insights can they provide?

3 May 2022 Gerard McKeever Borrowers, Events, Guest Posts, Project News

by Robert MacLean, Assistant Librarian in Archives and Special Collections, University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections (ASC) at the[…]

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Lending Registers at Glamis Castle, 1699-1754

23 January 2022 Kit Baston Books, Borrowers, Guest Posts

by Kelsey Jackson Williams, University of Stirling When exploring an old aristocratic library you dream of finding many things –[…]

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Vol 40 of Miss Lambert's catalogue

7 Pieces of Music to be Arranged: Women Borrowers and the First Female Cataloguer of the St Andrews Copyright Music Collection

19 April 2021 Kit Baston Borrowers, Guest Posts

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

1 March 2021 Kit Baston Borrowers, Guest Posts, Partners

By Kelsey Jackson Williams Not many people today would recognise the Bannatyne Club if you mentioned it in casual conversation,[…]

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Fraser James and Ellie Haddington, actors.

Illuminating Libraries

11 November 2020 Kit Baston Guest Posts, Partners

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

24 August 2020 Kit Baston Guest Posts, Partners

Purchasing a book is, as we all know, very different from reading it.  Too often, however, book historians are forced[…]

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