{"id":414,"date":"2014-10-08T08:59:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T08:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/?p=414"},"modified":"2014-10-08T08:59:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T08:59:02","slug":"rare-books-de-mystified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/2014\/10\/08\/rare-books-de-mystified\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Books De-mystified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever fancied using old or rare books as the basis of a project, or come upon the location \u201cMain Library \u2013 Special Collections\u201d in the catalogue, for something you wanted, and not known what to do next, the Library Pop-Up session on Thursday 9th October, 2 \u2013 4pm is for you.<br \/>\nThe library has about 400,000 rare books, ranging in date from manuscript books from the eleventh century through early printing from all parts of the world, to modern limited <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/files\/2014\/10\/DSCN3413.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-417\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/files\/2014\/10\/DSCN3413-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3413\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/files\/2014\/10\/DSCN3413-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/files\/2014\/10\/DSCN3413-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/files\/2014\/10\/DSCN3415.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-418\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/files\/2014\/10\/DSCN3415-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN3415\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/files\/2014\/10\/DSCN3415-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/files\/2014\/10\/DSCN3415-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>editions and books with notes and annotations by scholars and scientists.<br \/>\nCome and see a small selection, showing the sort of thing we have, discover how to find out about them and get access to them. There will be a few you can handle, and Beth and Fiona, our Rare Books Cataloguing Interns will be running tutorials on how to handle them properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever fancied using old or rare books as the basis of a project, or come upon the location \u201cMain Library \u2013 Special Collections\u201d in the catalogue, for something you wanted, and not known what to do next, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/2014\/10\/08\/rare-books-de-mystified\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4W5BF-6G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/popuplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}