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Friends Spring-Summer 2009 Version 1.Pmd The Friendsnewsnews ’ Friends’Friends’Spring / SummerFriends’ 2009 FRIENDS’ EVENTS Registered Charity No. SCO 09009 Date for your Diary Summer Meeting and AGM Thursday 21 May 2009 from 6pm in the Old Town House, High Street, Old Aberdeen Enlightenment – The Library Paintings of Hugh Buchanan Enjoy a private viewing of the exhibition of watercolours depicting the great libraries of Scotland and the rest of the UK, including the Divinity Library of King’s College. The exhibition coincides with the start of construction of the University’s new library and outwith the viewing for Friends is showing from 20 March – 30 May 2009, open Mon-Sat, 9am - 5pm, admission free. Alexander Collie Followed at 7pm by the AGM in the ——————————————— Seminar Room, Queen Mother Library HeadLines Aberdeen University Library and Historic Collections now (Please note that this is a different room from the previous Seminar Room, because of the building works. Please ask at QML Information Desk for produces a new electronic magazine, directions.) an Ezine, called HeadLines. The AGM will be followed at 7.30 pm by This newsletter aims at to keep Library Finding Alexander Collie: from Insch to Aberdeen to Australia: users informed of recent news and colonial surgeon, naturalist and explorer developments in Library and Historic by Collections. Obviously some items Gwen Chessell cover more specialised matters but formerly Co-ordinator, Medical Learning Resources, University of Friends who have access to e-mail and Aberdeen the internet may well enjoy the articles This talk will relate the story and discuss the achievements of Dr of wider interest. Alexander Collie, MA (Aberdeen, 1812) and an early member of If you are happy to let us know your e- the Aberdeen Medical Society (now the Med.Chi.). mail address we will be able to e-mail Collie became colonial surgeon in the new colony of Western details of future issues to you and, of Australia and, before that, was a widely travelled surgeon in the course, e-mail is also a useful way for Royal Navy, explorer and naturalist. Despite his early death in us to alert you on other matters. 1835 aged forty-two, he made a considerable contribution to the Contact Sheona Farquhar, Honorary scientific world of his day, and his work was known to such Membership Secretary, luminaries as Charles Darwin, Sir William Hooker, Robert Brown, [email protected] with your e- Sir John Richardson and many others. mail address details so that these can be added to the Friends e-mailing list. All Welcome HeadLines is available online at http:// Light Refreshments will be served after the meeting www.abdn.ac.uk/library/ezine/ The Friends of Aberdeen University Library REPORTS ON FRIENDS’ ACTIVITIES Spring Meeting The Aberdeen volume of The Ming Encyclopaedia - Yongle Dadian, by David Helliwell, Department of Oriental Books, Bodleian Library, Oxford with hard boards covered in yellow of his life in the consular service silk. It was finally approved by the of the Chinese government, which emperor in 1408. at the time was being run by the British, and at the time of the David explained how Yongle dadian rebellion was Chief Secretary of is different from other Chinese the Inspectorate of the Imperial encyclopaedias including its size and Maritime Customs. Brazier binding. Yongle dadian, uses a presented the volume to the Pages from the Aberdeen volume of Yongle Dadian unique hard-cover version of the so- University in 1922 and is believed At a joint meeting held with the called wrapped-back binding to have died in 1924. Aberdeen Chinese Studies Group baobeizhuang so that the volumes on 16 March 2009 David Helliwell could be shelved visible, yet fully The Aberdeen volume contains of the Bodleian Library at the protected. As it was too large to print, chapter 11907, which is actually University of Oxford gave a it existed only in the form of a single one of the more interesting and detailed presentation on the manuscript copy. important ones. It is the last of three volume of Yongle dadian held by chapters that deal with the the University of Aberdeen Library Unlike previous and subsequent character guang, and contains the & Historic Collections encyclopaedias, Yongle dadian was section on Guangzhoufu or Canton. In 1890, Wen Tingshi David explained that his not arranged by subject. The excerpts copied out the three guang chapters knowledge of the volume is due to were arranged according to the for his personal library, perhaps the fact that James Legge, the first position of their first character in the because his father and another Professor of Chinese at the rhyming dictionary Hongwu forbear had been officials in University of Oxford was born in zhengyun or ‘Correct rhymings of Guangdong province. Only one Huntly. David attended a the Hongwu period.’ Arranging the other section of Yongle dadian conference held in Aberdeen in Yongle dadian in what was the appears to have been preserved in April 1997 to mark the centenary this way. of Legge’s death and discovered contemporary Chinese equivalent of the volume, which although alphabetical order made its contents David concluded by explaining catalogued was then unknown to readily accessible. that the Aberdeen volume is sinology. valuable not because of its content In 1693 the scholar Xu Qianxue had The Yongle dadian was but as one of the few examples of noted that volumes of Yongle dadian commissioned by the third Ming this kind of object in the UK. It was emperor (Zhu Di, 1360-1424) in were missing. By 1899 only some in a rather bad state of repair and 1402. Directed by the scholar Xie 800 volumes remained. Of these 400 bore signs of extensive water Jin with a team of 47 editorial were destroyed in the Boxer damage. It has however been assistants, the first manuscript was Rebellion, 200 are now in China, and conserved by the paper conservators at the University of presented in December 1404. The a further 200 are in foreign Dundee. Emperor considered it to be collections, most being in the United inadequate and appointed a team States, the United Kingdom, and of two co-directors and a further After his presentation Friends were 2169 scholars to continue the Japan. The only other volumes in able to few the volume and work, which was completed in Europe are the four in Berlin. reproductions of the individual 1407. The final version had a total pages made while the item was 22877 chapters. The text was James Russell Brazier was the son being conserved. written on heavy white paper ruled of the professor of chemistry and a Robin Armstrong Viner in vermilion, and sumptuously student at Aberdeen from 1875 Cataloguing Manager bound in 11095 large volumes, to 1879. He spent the greater part Library and Historic Collections 2 Friends’ Autumn/Winter meeting – different languages, as well as major photograph New Library Project Update collections. Physical access will be matched by online access and Chris stressed how much is Chris Banks, the University Librarian, gave a already available through the internet. fascinating preview of the new Library at our meeting in November. Beginning with the flythrough now During her presentation Chris searched the George available on the University web pages Chris explained Washington Wilson Photographic Archive through the how the new building embodies the concept of a library website. She also demonstrated the Turning the Pages without walls, enabling resource discovery to delivery. software used for the Aberdeen Bestiary. This allows the viewer to magnify different parts of the image and The University already has an ambitious outreach view the explanatory text associated with it. Chris programme including the Word and Sound festivals explained how this will ensure that such rare and and the composition prize. Library and Historic unique items are preserved as well as increasing the Collections also has an excellent record of engaging number of people able to view them. with schoolchildren in the city and shire and regularly contributes material to exhibitions in Scotland, the UK The new Library will be technology rich. University and around the world. In March last year an audience members and, wherever possible, the public will be development plan was commissioned and work on this able to access Library & Historic Collections’ growing has continued since, using focus groups to identify collections of electronic books, journals and other further opportunities. online resources. Assistive technology booths will be provided for students with disabilities and PC clusters Chris explained how the new Library will enable for teaching. Library & Historic Collections to work with a wide range of audiences. Two collaborative spaces adjacent Chris also discussed the new Conservation Suite which to the Special Collections Reading Room on the lower will stretch north on the lower ground floor from the ground floor will allow curatorial staff to help Library. This state of the art facility is being made schoolchildren explore books, manuscripts and objects possible thanks to an individual gift of $3m towards from the University’s museum collections. Seminar the cost of construction. The Heritage Lottery Fund is rooms on other floors will allow the Information also being asked to support this centre of excellence Consultants to assist teachers in developing their for North East Scotland which will be used to conserve students’ information skills and preparing them for the University’s paper collections. It too offers their University careers. opportunities for community education and engagement. The ground floor of the new Library will be community focused with the new exhibition gallery at its heart. Finally Chris spoke of the new Library as an elegant The café at the front of the building will be used for addition to the city skyline looking toward the Crown events and receptions while the spaces created around Tower of King’s College Chapel.
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