Library Newsletter April 2014

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April 2014

You can also view this newsletter online . List of articles: Extended opening times for revision & exams Poems Aloud! winner Friends of the Library Lecture Norman Reid World War One Centenary Belarusian Collection

Exams are coming - don't worry, we will be open 8am - 2am, 7 days
The Main University Library will be open 0800 - 0200, 7 days a week from Friday 2nd up to and including Thursday 22nd May. Full opening times information can be found on our webpage.

If you have any questions, let us know. Email: [email protected].

Poems Aloud!

The winner Beth Robertson being awarded her prize by University Librarian John MacColl 4th year Art History & English student Beth Robertson was the winner of the Library’s Poems Aloud! poetry recitation competition held on March 7th as part of the StAnza Poetry Festival. Beth beat off stiff competition from thirteen other finalists to win the £75 prize with her recitation of Ariadne by Scottish poet Eunice Buchanan.  The judges were American language poet Ron Silliman, writer and broadcaster Billy Kay, and Library staff member Vicky MacKenzie. 

The Poems Aloud! judges

The Library was delighted by the enthusiastic response to the competition, and plans to hold a similar event, again in conjunction with StAnza, next year.  -Alice Crawford Digital Humanities Research Librarian

Friends of the Library Lecture: "Whose is it? Libraries and Cultural Restitution"
Dr Kristian Jensen, Head of Arts and Humanities at the British Library, will speak on "Whose is it? Libraries and Cultural Restitution". Join us to hear Dr Jensen's lecture, more information available on the University Events page. The event is open to all and will be held on Wednesday 30th April 2014 from 1715 to 1830 in the Psychology Old Library, St Mary's Quadrangle. Followed by tea and coffee.

Norman Reid

Dr Norman Reid, photo by Peter Adamson Dr Norman Reid, Head of Special Collections, Keeper of Manuscripts & Muniments, and Assistant Director of the Library, will be stepping down at the end

of July this year after almost 20 years of service to the Library, ten of them as Head of Special Collections. Norman will be taking early retirement from November 2015, and in the period until then will undertake a long-promised period of research leave as a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Scottish Historical Research, where he will pursue research based upon the Library’s Special Collections. Norman has been responsible for building up the collections in each curatorial area – rare books, manuscripts and archives (including the University’s own archives, or muniments), and photographs. Under his watch, the Division of Special Collections has grown significantly in staffing numbers and expertise, and over £2m in grant funding has been won by the Division, illustrating recognition by the UK heritage funding community of the significance of the Library’s holdings for the heritage of Scotland and the UK. Although he will remain in post until the end of July, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Norman for his considerable achievements in raising the profile of Special Collections and the Library as a whole during his time here, and to wish him well in his research career and in all of his future undertakings. -John MacColl University Librarian & Director of Library Services

Library marks First World War Centenary

Image courtesy of University of St Andrews Library (ms38426/2) 2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. Over the next four years the Library will highlight those items in our collections which provide us with an insight into and a better understanding of this important turning point in history. The Library has received a significant collection of material on World War I and related conflicts, deposited by John Cawthorn. This collection along with books, photographs, DVDs, letters, online resources and many other items from the Main Library and Special

Collections are the things we wish to share with you as we commemorate the Centenary. Whether you are interested in the political or historical background, the lives of those who lived, fought and died in the First World War, art, literature or film from this period, we hope you will take the time to look at the materials we are fortunate to have access to here at the University of St Andrews. Our student intern, library and academic staff have already begun work on pulling all these materials together on our World War I Centenary Library Guide. Throughout the period we’ll be asking staff and students to select key items in our collections which they have used or which they consider to be essential in developing an understanding of the Great War, these will either be displayed in our exhibition cabinet in the Main Library or written about in our WWI blog. If you wish to highlight an item or make suggestions we would love to hear from you. Please contact us at [email protected]. -Hilda McNae Senior Academic Liaison Librarian

Our growing Belarusian Collection

Over the past few years, the Library has begun to build up a collection of items on Belarus. We now hold approximately 60 texts. You can find items concerning the history, economics and politics of this state on SAULCAT. Items are in English, Russian, German, Belarusian and Polish.

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