Category: Technical
Final Year…
It doesn’t feel like Books and Borrowing has been running for two-and-a-half years, but this is nevertheless the case, and as we enter 2023, we’re now beginning the final year of the project in its current form. We will have somewhat more time than we thought back in June 2020, as the AHRC has kindly […]
Building the Books and Borrowing Digital Resource
Over the past few months, we have been busy thinking about how we can make all the data we have been accumulating available to other people. In other words, we’ve been thinking through the eventual front-end of our database, and working out with our wonderful developer Brian Aitken what will work best in terms of […]
COP26 – Part 2: Latent Heat at the University Library
This is the second of a pair of blogs exploring environmental aspects of the study of borrowing records from historic Scottish libraries, in recognition of the globally significant COP26 conference taking place in Glasgow in November 2021. In April 1762, the Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine at the University of Glasgow, Joseph Black, […]
COP26 – Part 1: Glasgow, Birthplace of the Anthropocene
This is the first of a pair of blogs exploring environmental aspects of the study of borrowing records from historic Scottish libraries, in recognition of the globally significant COP26 conference taking place in Glasgow in November 2021. In 1763, the Greenock-born engineer James Watt was employed as an instrument maker at the University of Glasgow. […]
Importing existing datasets
The project is bringing together data on books, borrowers and borrowings that have been transcribed by previous projects, with the aim of making these datasets cross-searchable. Our project database consists of some 23 interrelated tables and we have a Content Management System through which the project team can add and edit records for libraries, ledgers, […]