{"id":2002,"date":"2014-09-03T08:48:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T08:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2014-09-03T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T09:22:18","slug":"aberdeen-connections-rbscg14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2014\/09\/03\/aberdeen-connections-rbscg14\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen Connections #RBSCG14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I was privileged to attend the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections conference at the Sir Duncan Rice Library<\/a> at Aberdeen University. I was able to take a poster about the Funk Donation Projects<\/a> at New College Library, which fitted well with the theme of buildings and refurbishment projects for Special Collections.<\/p>\n

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Christ’s College Library, Aberdeen<\/p><\/div>\n

I began the conference with a visit I’d arranged to Christ’s College Library, Aberdeen, thanks\u00a0to the College Administrator, a New College alumnus.\u00a0In the course of the\u00a0Centre for World Christianity Library<\/a> project that I’ve been working on over the summer, I’ve come across a number of books marked Christ’s College Library Aberdeen, so I was\u00a0keen to see this Divinity library. The last remaining departmental Library at the University of Aberdeen, it’s\u00a0supported by the Church of Scotland to provide books for undergraduate students of Divinity.\u00a0The\u00a0 beautiful nineteenth\u00a0century library environment also provides a setting for seminars and events for Christ’s College<\/a>, which has a historic role\u00a0overseeing the preparation and support of\u00a0candidates for the ministry of the Church of Scotland. Recently it has\u00a0developed a new\u00a0Centre for Ministry Studies<\/a>. I took the opportunity to visit Kings College Chapel, where I realized that the war memorial stained glass window\u00a0was designed by Sir Douglas Strachan, who designed the windows in the Free High Kirk building which is now New College Library.<\/p>\n

The conference included\u00a0a visit to the University of Aberdeen’s Special Collections, where we were\u00a0treated to a fabulous display of treasures, including an illuminated Dutch Book of Hours from the early 15th century<\/a> that\u00a0I could have looked at all afternoon. The\u00a0background to\u00a0the donors of many of the items on display and the complex library history of the two colleges, Kings and Marischal had been\u00a0aptly descibed that morning by Dr Iain Beavan. I was fascinated to hear from after Conference Dinner speaker Prof Peter Davidson that\u00a0another of the\u00a0treasures on display, the\u00a0Aberdeen Bestiary, was once posted<\/em> out to M.R.James as part of his work cataloguing the Aberdeen University manuscripts. Other days, other ways …
\nI had learned before coming to the University of Aberdeen about\u00a0their Pamphlets collection<\/a>, which has a relationship with the newly catalogued Pamphlets Collection<\/a> at New College, Edinburgh. Following the Union of the United\u00a0Presbyterian Church with the Free Church of Scotland in 1900, the United Presbyterian College Library was dispersed among the three Free Church Colleges (including New College), and the pamphlet volumes were part of the collection that came to the Free Church College in Aberdeen (now Christ’s College). The older part of Christ’s College Library was deposited in Aberdeen University Library in 1986.<\/p>\n

\"Sir<\/a>A tour of the newly built Sir Duncan Rice Library showed the importance of donor support for the Library project, with every area and room of the library named after a donor or supporter. I met\u00a0 Mrs Janet MacKay, Information Consultant for Divinity, History and Philosophy in the Elsevier Information Consultants Room\u00a0for a helpful chat about the similarities and differences in our roles. I’d been struck by the Subject Information point desks on each floor of the Sir Duncan Rice Library, and also by the balance of bookstock vs study spaces \/ PCs in this library. Shared themes were supporting\u00a0PhD students and the continued importance of the\u00a0printed book to Divinity.<\/p>\n

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Christine Love-Rodgers, Academic Support Librarian – Divinity<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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