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December 2015

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Library RedevelopmentModule coordinators – please send us your reading lists for semester 2Introducing our new Developing Photopoetry webpagesAcademic staff - would you like Library sessions for your students?Poems Aloud!A rare find: a copy of Viviani's Enodatio presented to Edmond Halley

Library RedevelopmentThe plans for the further redevelopment of the Main Library, and the creation of anew Library facility at Guardbridge, have passed the internal University planningstages, and we shall be going out to tender for a contractor in the new year. Workis due to start by mid-2016, and should be complete by the autumn of 2017. This will

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result in an improved Main Library offer to our users, with an additional 375 study seats(mostly on the presently non-public ‘Level 1’), increased toilet provision and an enlargedcafé. The Library’s portion of the new Guardbridge building, which we will be sharing withseveral other professional service Units, will give us fully climate-controlled storage forour special collections, a browsable store for our general collections, a second specialcollections reading room, a conservation studio and staff office accommodation.

This development continues the logic of turning over the maximum space possible in theMain Library to the vital services of study space and resource provision, and using bothphysical and virtual connectivity to bring staff and materials to our users as required.This keeps the Library’s in-town footprint small, but hopefully more attractive than ever.At the present time, we find we sometimes have over 7,000 user visits in a day. This canmean that, at our busiest times – as the doughnut graphic in the Main Library entranceshows – we can have over 900 users in the building. Undoubtedly, we will be recordingoccupancy levels of over a thousand in a few years’ time - a considerable achievementfor a building whose normal average usage when first built would have been two to threehundred!

- John MacCollUniversity Librarian & Director of Library Services

Module coordinators – please send us your readinglists for semester 2

Teaching in semester 2? If you plan to use short loan/scanned readings or if you wouldlike to have an online reading list set up for your module, please let the Library know byTuesday 5 January.

Please check our guide for details on how to notify us of your reading requirements. Formore information or to send us your reading lists, please email readinglists@st-andrews.ac.uk.

- Colin BovairdAcademic Liaison

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Introducing our new Developing PhotopoetrywebpagesWe are delighted to launch our new Developing Photopoetry webpages. Based on anidea from Professor Robert Crawford in the School of English, and with a detailedcommentary by Dr Michael Nott who has just completed his PhD on this topic. Thewebpages bring together more than 60 photographically illustrated poetry bookspublished between 1856 and 1921, and document interactions between poets andphotographers from Britain and America spanning more than half a century.

The project has been an interesting collaboration between the Library, the School ofEnglish and the School of Computer Science. Staff from the Library’s Digital Humanitiesand Special Collections teams were responsible for scanning the (out-of-copyright)books and uploading them to the St Andrews Digital Collections portal where they canbe viewed using the portal’s turn-the-page bookreader. Callum Kenny from the School ofComputer Science created the webpages for his final-year project, and incorporated thedigital books into a sympathetic design. He and Michael Nott worked together to make itpossible for queries to the pages to trigger multiple linkages, for connections to be made,for example, to other works by each photographer and poet, to biographies of thecreative artists, to institutions or sites where the photographers’ collections are held, andto information about the photographic media used.

The webpages are unique, we think, in their coverage of this interesting topic and wehope that they will usefully contribute to the University’s History of Photography teachingand research. We continue to add to the Library’s impressive collection ofPhotographically Illustrated Poems, and further items will be uploaded to the website asthey are acquired.

- Alice CrawfordDigital Research

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The Library’s Academic Liaison Team were out in force during semester 1! Wewere invited along to more classes than we’ve been to previously, telling studentsabout the Library services and facilities, and demonstrating a widerange ofresources. If you’d like your students to be more aware of the range of resources wehave to support their studies, you can invite us along to a class, or arrange a session.Just email library@st-andrews.ac.uk if you’re interested and we’ll be happy to discussyour needs.

- Sharon NangleAcademic Liaison

Poems Aloud!The Main Library will once again feature as a venue in next year's StAnza PoetryFestival, running the student poetry recitation competition Poems Aloud! for the thirdyear. The event will take place on the afternoon of Friday 4 March, please check theStAnza Poetry webpages for details. A change to the approach this year will seeperformers choosing a poem to recite from a set drawn from the published works ofpoets taking part in the Festival, or from its themes. We shall also be running a poetry-inspired exhibition based on some of our Special Collections material.

The event has been very successful over the past two years. Look out for publicity anddetails on how to enter at the end of January!

A rare find

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Carina, an intern from Cologne currently working with our Special Collections inthe Rare Books team cataloguing the Mackay Collection, uncovered a copy of Viviani'sEnodatio earlier this month, which the author presented to Edmond Halley!

Vincenzo Viviani was a disciple of Galileo and conducted mathematical theorems andphysics experiments throughout his life. Edmond Halley, Astronomer Royal, is bestknown for predicting the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet.

This book, which bears the pressmarks from Halley’s personal library, is a lovely witnessto the international intellectual networks of scientists in the late 17th century.

- Daryl GreenSpecial Collections

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