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CILIP LIHG Conference 2017: The Information Landscape in Scotland 1600-1900
Date and time
Location
Dalhousie Building
Old Hawkhill Dundee DD1 5EN United KingdomRefund Policy
Description
CILIP’s Library and Information History Group is delighted to announce that its 2017 conference will be held at the University of Dundee on Saturday 1 July 2017 with registration from 9:30am.
10.00 – 10.45am
Keynote Address:Patriots and Rogues: Observations on Scottish Lairds and their Libraries, 1700-1900
Peter Reid
10.45 – 11.30am
Rare Books in Early Modern Scotland: an Unknown Quantity
Kelsey Jackson Williams & Mhairi Rutherford
BREAK
11.45am – 12.30pm
“… a not unedifying field for some local antiquary of the future…”: New Evidence on Library Activity and Mutual Improvement
John Crawford
12.30 – 13.00pm Lightning Presentations:
The Anomaly of Innerpeffray – Information for the People?
Lara Haggerty
The Society of Friends Libraries of Aberdeen and Kinmuck
Annette Ramsden
LUNCH
14.00 – 14.30pm Lightning Presentations:
The News in Verse in Nineteenth-Century Dundee
Erin Farley
Edinburgh University Early Library Records Project
Elizabeth Quarmby-Lawrence
14.30 – 15.15pm
State of the Art: Glasgow Government’s School of Design and its Library, 1845-1900
Duncan Chappell
BREAK
15.30 – 16.15pm Lightning Presentations:
Books at Auction in Scotland Before 1707: An Analysis of the Catalogue of Andrew Balfour
Graeme Kemp
Of Books and Doctors: the Wedderburn Gift at St. Andrews
Shanti Graheli
The Reformation and the Digital Humanities: Overcoming Barriers of Accessibility for the Crawford Collection
Drew Thomas
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You may also be interested in registering for events in Dundee on Friday 30th June, organised by the group to coincide with the conference. Use the following links for more details and to sign up. Booking is essential.
2pm Behind-the-scenes: Dundee Heritage Trust (Verdant Works& Discovery Point)
3:30pm Tour of Archive Services, University of Dundee
6pm: A Walk with Words: Dundee's Literary Streets
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