Libraries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Institutional records of New College Library
Collection
Identifier: AA2
Scope and Contents
Contains the institutional records of New College Library, Edinburgh University Theological Library, Church of Scotland General Assembly Library, Church of Scotland Lending Library and Longforgan Free Church Ministers' Library.
Dates:
1755-present
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of James Kirkwood (c. 1650-1708)
Fonds
Identifier: GD19
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: material including a register, discourse, and sermons; A new family book; or, The true interest of families; a book of letters and receipts relating to the printing and distribution of Irish Old Testaments and Bibles, catechisms and psalm-books, 1687-1699, including letters to Colin Campbell of Carquhin, Astwick, and accounts of disbursements, and a list of Highland parishes; material about Highland schools and libraries; letters...
Dates:
1670-1709
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of Lauriston William Sharp
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-83
Scope and Contents
The papers of Lauriston William Sharp at Gen. 2157 consist of printed material such as journals and sheets; numerous bundles of scholarly notes on writers both in manuscript and typescript; notebooks; library notes and card indexes; and, other miscellaneous papers. At Dk.1.29 there are Sharp's notes and miscellaneous items on James Kirkwood (circa 1650-1708) who worked on the establishment of libraries in Scotland, and at Dk.7.51 typescript and notes on Charles Mackie (1688-1770) the first...
Dates:
1872-1955
Peepshow depicting a library, by Martin Engelbrecht
Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-2048
Content Description
This is an eighteenth-century perspective view (also called "peepshow", or in the original German Guckkastendioramen) produced by German engraver and publisher Martin Engelbrecht. Printed on thin paper, from etched copper plates, and coloured in watercolour, it depicts a miniature contemporary library, complete with library users reading, discoursing, or simply admiring the shelves.Martin Engelbrecht of Augsburg, Germany started creating...
Dates:
18th century
Records of the Friends of Edinburgh University Library
Fonds — Box EUA-A-407
Identifier: EUA GD38
Scope and Contents
Various papers: minutes, agenda, circulars (very incomplete), 1964-1992
Friends Newsletter, issues 1-20 (some duplicates), 1981-1990
The Piper (Friends newsletter), issues 1-16 (1991-2000) and 28 (November 2006): 2001 - May 2006 wanting
Photographs taken at the naming of the Brenda Moon Room, 9 December 1997
Annual...
Dates:
1962-2006
Records relating to the Mechanics' Library and University Hall, Riddle's Court
Item — Volume Dk.1.4
Identifier: Coll-1841
Scope and Contents
A single volume in two parts. The first part relates to the buildings use as the Mechanics Library, the second relates to its period as University Hall. In the front is bound an architectural plan and two engravings of the buildings.Section I begins with a Preface based on extracts from Daniel Wilson, 'Edinburgh in Olden Time'. Bound in before the Preface is a two-sided illustration, one side titled "M'Morran Superintends his bigging". Thererafter follows a table of contents...
Dates:
1850s, 1890s
Student notes and writing of Dr. Graeme D. Eddie, and other miscellaneous items
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1263
Identifier: Coll-1671
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: work on aspects of the output of Swedish writer Göran Tunström (1937-2000); material relating to study periods, and writing and publication while at Edinburgh and Aberdeen Universities, and afterwards; notes providing a picture of Edinburgh University Library at a time of transition in the mid-1990s; and, tracts and other publications, 1940s-1960s, relating to Scottish independence. The material being:
...
Dates:
1987-2003