{"id":135,"date":"2012-06-21T13:27:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2012-06-21T13:27:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:27:15","slug":"the-z-factor-new-college-librarys-rediscovered-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/06\/21\/the-z-factor-new-college-librarys-rediscovered-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Z&#8217; Factor : New College Library&#8217;s rediscovered Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are Special Collections? At New College Library we have Special Collections of books, archives\u00a0 and manuscripts and a small collection of portraits and objects. Much of the book collections\u00a0have been\u00a0housed in Special Collections for decades, but we also have a growing collection of &#8216;new&#8217; Special Collections.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Z Collection, which is formed out of recent\u00a0donations and out of New College Library books formerly in the General sequence\u00a0 which were identified as Special Collections\u00a0during a\u00a0stock management exercise. We follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/information-services\/services\/library-museum-gallery\/crc\/collections\/special-collections\/rare-books\">critieria<\/a> used by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/information-services\/services\/library-museum-gallery\/crc\">Centre for Research Collections<\/a> here at the University of Edinburgh,\u00a0in particular\u00a0that all books published before 1850 should be classed as Special Collections. The Z Collection, which numbers over 3,500 items, is currently being catalogued online as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/information-services\/services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/subject-guides\/divinity\/news\">Funk Cataloguing Projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/06\/z-1650-portraitgeorgeheriot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-235 alignright\" title=\"Biographia Scotica - George Heriot\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/06\/z-1650-portraitgeorgeheriot.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One example from the Z Collection is the <strong><em>Biographia scotica, <\/em><\/strong>a biographical dictionary compiled by John Stark of Edinburgh.\u00a0 It contains engraved portraits of notable Edinburgh figures such as George Drummond, a Lord Provost of Edinburgh, George Heriot, whose name is still carried by one of the well-known schools in Edinburgh, and John Napier of Merchiston, the inventor of logarithms. The book bears the inscription of one Alexander Fortune with the date 1820 at the head of the title page and a bookplate presenting the book to New College from the library of the late James Wilson, merchant, 3 South Bridge (Edinburgh).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are Special Collections? At New College Library we have Special Collections of books, archives\u00a0 and manuscripts and a small collection of portraits and objects. Much of the book collections\u00a0have been\u00a0housed in Special Collections for decades, but we also have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/06\/21\/the-z-factor-new-college-librarys-rediscovered-special-collections\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[35,37,64,78,116,131,135,154,165,171,187,195],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42UaT-2b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}