Library Newsletter April 2014

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April 2014

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Extended opening times for revision & examsPoems Aloud! winnerFriends of the Library LectureNorman ReidWorld War One CentenaryBelarusian Collection

Exams are coming - don't worry, we will be open8am - 2am, 7 daysThe Main University Library will be open 0800 - 0200, 7 days a week from Friday2nd 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 JohnMacColl

4th year Art History & English student Beth Robertson was the winner of theLibrarys Poems Aloud! poetry recitation competition held on March 7th as part ofthe StAnza Poetry Festival. Beth beat off stiff competition from thirteen other finalists towin the 75 prize with her recitation of Ariadne by Scottish poet Eunice Buchanan. Thejudges were American language poet Ron Silliman, writer and broadcaster Billy Kay, andLibrary staff member Vicky MacKenzie.

The Poems Aloud! judges



The Library was delighted by the enthusiastic response to the competition, and plans tohold a similar event, again in conjunction with StAnza, next year.

-Alice CrawfordDigital 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 speakon "Whose is it? Libraries and Cultural Restitution".

Join us to hear Dr Jensen's lecture, more information available on the University Eventspage. The event is open to all and will be held on Wednesday 30th April 2014 from 1715to 1830 in the Psychology Old Library, St Mary's Quadrangle. Followed by tea andcoffee.

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 asHead of Special Collections. Norman will be taking early retirement from November2015, and in the period until then will undertake a long-promised period of researchleave as a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Scottish Historical Research,where he will pursue research based upon the Librarys Special Collections. Norman hasbeen responsible for building up the collections in each curatorial area rare books,manuscripts and archives (including the Universitys own archives, or muniments), andphotographs. Under his watch, the Division of Special Collections has grown significantlyin staffing numbers and expertise, and over 2m in grant funding has been won by theDivision, illustrating recognition by the UK heritage funding community of the significanceof the Librarys holdings for the heritage of Scotland and the UK. Although he will remainin post until the end of July, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Norman for hisconsiderable achievements in raising the profile of Special Collections and the Library asa whole during his time here, and to wish him well in his research career and in all of hisfuture undertakings.

-John MacCollUniversity 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. Overthe next four years the Library will highlight those items in our collections whichprovide us with an insight into and a better understanding of this important turningpoint in history.

The Library has received a significant collection of material on World War I and relatedconflicts, 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 thosewho 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 tohere at the University of St Andrews.

Our student intern, library and academic staff have already begun work on pulling allthese materials together on our World War I Centenary Library Guide. Throughout theperiod well be asking staff and students to select key items in our collections which theyhave used or which they consider to be essential in developing an understanding of theGreat War, these will either be displayed in our exhibition cabinet in the Main Library orwritten about in our WWI blog. If you wish to highlight an item or make suggestions wewould love to hear from you. Please contact us at [email protected].

-Hilda McNaeSenior Academic Liaison Librarian

Our growing Belarusian Collection

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

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