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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, […]
Innerpeffray Library’s Borrowers’ Registers Pilot Project; or How the Whole Thing Started
When I took up my current post at the University of Stirling, after working at the Universities of Cambridge, St Andrews and London, I was lucky to return to the area not only where I was born (Strathearn), but where my family had lived for many generations. Successive ancestors had sat on the Board of […]
Introducing Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830
Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers brings together researchers from the universities of Stirling and Glasgow and fourteen partner organisations across Scotland. The project is led by Principal Investigator Dr Katie Halsey (Stirling) and Co-Investigator Dr Matthew Sangster (Glasgow) who will work with a team of three post-doctoral research fellows: Karen […]