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THE . NUMBER 36 AUTUMN 2011 NEWSLETTER, OF THE FRIENDS OF EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ‘The true University of these days is a collection of books’ PiperThomas Carlyle It has been a very busy summer. members as well as fulfilling the predictions about the death of Having decided we needed an expectations of our present ones. libraries as the life of the printed book Administrative Assistant whose sole I would be delighted to receive evolves. Yet the use of the Library has task would be to provide support and any ideas or suggestions as to how we increased beyond all expectations and service, we advertised on the might expand and improve the I was delighted recently to have to University website for a suitably Friends into an organisation which is queue for the first time in over twenty qualified PhD student and had a involved with its members and years to gain admittance. We have also massive response of over 40 applicants, engaged in a productive dialogue that had good attendance for the delightful finally reduced to a short list of five. enables us both to support the Library ‘Singing the Reformation’ exhibition After a thorough interview and to create a distinctive and in the ground floor exhibition space process we appointed Samantha enjoyable identity for our members. for which the Friends purchased the Walton who is doing a PhD in liter- Elsewhere in this newsletter beautiful display cases. ature. She has extensive administrative you will read of the importance of I think we can look forward to an experience and we feel certain she will the Library to the University as interesting and stimulating year. be a valuable addition to the team. We demonstrated by the Chancellor’s now hope to be able to follow through recent visit. Lady Caplan, President, the ideas we have for recruiting new There have been many dire Friends of Edinburgh University Library HRH the Princess Royal with, from left to right, Dr John Scally, Arnott Wilson, The Lord Provost, Vice-Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, Professor Nigel Brown Photograph: Douglas Robertson THE ., PNUMBERiperp 36 AUTUMN 2011 An Administrator Christmas Card for the Friends and Calendar The illustration on the card is from Biblia 2011 Christmas card (Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1483). This early German Bible contains numerous interesting Cards are sold singly at 80p each woodcuts with contemporary colouring. They or £5 for 6 or £10 for 14. were made originally for Heinrich Quentell's 1478 High German Bible, printed in Cologne. They can be purchased by: EUL Special Collections: Inc.45.2. Bequest of James Cathcart White, 1943. email: [email protected], by phone: 0131 650 8379 (CRC reception) Mondays and Wednesdays 12noon – 2pm when Samantha Norton will be available. Please state how many you wish and whether you will pick them up from Reception on Ground Floor Main Library, or wish them to be posted to you. Cards can also be purchased at the University shop. The successful candidate, Samantha Walton, takes up her post as part-time 2012 Calendar theme: Administrator with immediate effect. Samantha is currently completing Historic Musical Instruments her doctoral research at Edinburgh at St Cecilia’s Hall on the representation of psychology Size: 30 x 30cm. Drilled hole for in golden age crime fiction. She hanging. Full colour. Price: £10 is interested in the medical aspects of Victorian literature, early twentieth Online orders: www.giftshop.ed.ac.uk century women’s writing and popular modernism; she also teaches on the The calendar can be purchased at Literature department’s degree course, the CRC reception on 6th floor, Scottish Literature 1750–1950. Before Main Library or at the University coming to Edinburgh, Samantha took shop at Charles Stewart House: price £10 per copy. Orders can also be a BA in Literature and Language at made by using the accompanying form. Also available from St Cecilia’s King’s College London and an MSc Hall, Cowgate (for opening times see www.music.ed.ac.uk/ euchmi/sch/) in Political and Social Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. She has worked at the Hay Literary Festival, Graduates’ Association Film Night for the publishers Simon and Schuster, and has volunteered for the social You are invited to a Film Show by Panamint Cinemas and environmental think-tank, New Tuesday 29 May 2012 at 7pm: Playfair Library Hall Economics Foundation. Here in Edinburgh, she co-ordinates the Three short films from ‘Films of Scotland’: Northern Capital (1937, b/w), postgraduate reading for the James Lothian Landscape (1948), Waverley Steps (1974), all about Edinburgh and East Tait Black Award, recently Lothian and Emma’s Dilemma, a comedy by Rikki Fulton (made in the 1950s co-organised the poetry conference in the style of 1920s silent films). Wine and nibbles served from 7pm: ‘ConVersify’, and is now excited to programme begins 7.30pm Tickets: £10 available from Joan Meikle, EUGA be working with the Friends of the Assistant Secretary: [email protected] Telephone: 0131 650 4292: Edinburgh University Library. send payment to EUGA, 24 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LN Page 2 THE ., PNUMBERiperp 36 AUTUMN 2011 A Royal Occasion for the Library The Chancellor in the Collections and University Archivist, Conservation Studio talking with Caroline was delighted to highlight some of Scharfenberg the very special and significant items Photograph: Douglas Robertson within the Library’s collections. ‘During her visit to the Centre for Research Collections, the Princess was shown some of the University’s greatest treasures including the 11th century Celtic Psalter, which may have belonged to St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland. The effective starting point of the University, the charter authorising the town council to establish a college teaching in the liberal arts, dated 1582, was a particularly appropriate item on display in view of HRH Princess Anne’s impending installation as Chancellor’. The Chancellor and her party were also given a preview of a new project ‘Women Firsts’ relating to the On 29th July 2011 HRH the Princess As the royal party came straight history of women at the University Royal paid a visit to the University. It from the airport, George Square was of Edinburgh. As the first female was not her first, but it was the first the first place they visited in Chancellor in the University’s history to the Main Library and her first Edinburgh and so, as protocol would HRH the Princess Royal will now go since the announcement that she demand, the Lord Lieutenant and down in the history books as part of would become Chancellor, following Lord Provost of the City of that particular aspect of the history in the footsteps of her father, HRH Edinburgh, the Right Honourable of women and, in due course, when Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. George Grubb, welcomed Her Royal the project is officially launched, ‘It was a great honour for the Highness and her husband, vice- there will be a panel to the new Library to have a visit from HRH admiral, Sir Tim Laurence. Then Chancellor in the Main Library the Princess Royal shortly before she Professor Nigel Brown, as Senior alongside those of other women was formally installed as Chancellor. Vice-Principal and Sheila Cannell, who have played a significant part It confirms that the Library lies at as Director of Libraries, showed the in this history. the heart of the University.’ The Princess Royal and her party the The Chancellor and her group Director of University Collections, mesostic circle at the front entrance. also talked with students at the study Dr John Scally, reiterated the The royal party arrived twenty pods and met representatives of thoughts of everyone who was minutes early and remained beyond EUSA before joining benefactors and present on that day in July when the their scheduled stay and all who met others associated with the Library Princess Royal as ‘Chancellor elect’ them felt that their interest was at a reception. It was truly a great spent considerable time on a tour, considerable and the questions honour and a most enjoyable looking at items from within the extremely relevant and indeed, occasion, and all connected with the Archives and generally, from Special incisive. Library hope this visit will be the Collections. Arnott Wilson, Head of Special first of many. Page 3 THE ., PNUMBERiperp 36 AUTUMN 2011 A Wonderful and Unexpected Boost for Special Collections In March 2011 the College of areas. Some of the more ‘typical’ scenes and Goethe’s edition of Humanities and Social Science Scottish material includes a Ossian. We made an effort to find awarded the Library an additional manuscript by the poet Norman something for all the different £100,000 to spend on books and MacCaig, several nationalist departments that make up the manuscripts for Special Collections. pamphlets from the 1970s, the only College that would be relevant to This was welcomed enthusiastically copy in Scotland of the first separate their particular teaching, learning by the curators who set about the publication by Muriel Spark and an and research needs. task of spending this sum before the example of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Thinking about the growing end of July. A Child’s Garden of Verses with an importance of our international With this money we acquired a autograph letter from the author. The student community, and the range of fantastic range of material, much of more exotic material includes a international topics studied in the which relates to the Library’s existing collection of 40 original Arabic and College, we selected a number of collection strengths, and some of Turkish manuscripts, an album of important non-British items.
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