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In Memoriam William St Clair
The Books and Borrowing team were all saddened to hear of the recent death of William St Clair. In what[…]
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Robert Chambers’ Circulating Library Borrowing Register, 1828-1829
The Chambers Library Borrowing Register: A Unique Manuscript A surviving borrowing register for Robert Chambers’ circulating library, which operated in[…]
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David Brichan: The Borrowings of a St Andrews University Student
As a student, I admit the thought of undertaking cutting-edge research with the ‘Books and Borrowing’ Project was at first[…]
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Return from Orkney
Like Harriot Byron, I ask, what am I to do with my gratitude? I can do nothing but thank you[…]
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The Most Borrowed Books of the Leighton Library’s Water Drinkers
by Jacqueline Kennard I’m thrilled about my temporary placement with Books and Borrowing and to be writing my first blog[…]
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Work has been continuing on the massive body of borrowing data we have from St Andrews University library. With the[…]
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Walter Scott at Innerpeffray: Read to Death
Innerpeffray Library has now re-opened to visitors! After a longer than usual winter closure period due to lockdown and Covid-19[…]
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Event Report: Library Lives at Innerpeffray
On Saturday 22nd May we held the first of several project events intended to bring our work with Scotland’s historical[…]
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Life Cycles and Henry Brooke’s The Fool of Quality
In each of our weekly meetings for Books and Borrowing, we talk a bit about what we’ve been noticing in[…]
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