Books and Borrowing Database Launch

Critical Studies Administration

Launch event for the AHRC-funded 'Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830' Database

Wolfson Medical School Building

Books and Borrowing Database Launch, in association with <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/arts/research/artslab/labsandthemes/ourlabs/collections/" title="https://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/arts/research/artslab/labsandthemes/ourlabs/collections/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Collections Lab</a>.Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical School Buiding4pm to 6pm, Friday 26th AprilJoin us for the launch of the AHRC-funded <a href="https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/" title="https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Books and Borrowing Database</a>, containing borrowing records covering eighteen different Scottish libraries active in the period between 1750 and 1830. Using formerly unexplored (or underexplored) borrowing records, the Books and Borrowing project has created a new resource that reveals hidden histories of book use, knowledge dissemination and participation in literate culture. Drawing on the rare manuscript sources held at <a href="https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/partners/" title="https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/partners/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">our partner libraries and heritage centres</a>, our project establishes which books readers actually engaged with in the period.At this event, members of the team that completed the project (Katie Halsey, Matthew Sangster, Brian Aitken, Kit Baston, Maxine Branagh-Miscampbell, Alex Deans and Gerard McKeever) will introduce the database, reflect on the process of making it, and discuss some of their favourite findings. The talk will be followed by a wine reception.

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