The current exhibition in the Stirling Campus Library, ‘Treasures from our Collections’, will end on Tuesday 26th April. Â A new exhibition will go on display on 2nd May which will provide an historical perspective on Scottish elections with a selection of materials from our political collections. Â If you can’t make it into the Library […]
Category: Special Collections
New exhibition in the Stirling Campus Library – Treasures from our Collections
A new exhibition is now on display in the Library at the Stirling Campus. Treasures from our art, archives and special collections have been gathered together to form an exhibition which will run until the end of April.  The University of Stirling is fortunate to hold a wide variety of ‘treasures’, in its Art Collection, […]
Archives and Special Collections Advent calendar
To get into the Christmas spirit, why not take a look at our new Archives and Special Collections online Advent calendar? See a different treasure from our collections every day! http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/advent/ For more information about our Archives and Special Collections, see http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/libraries/collections/spcoll/index.php
Award-winning feature
The Department of Film, Media & Journalism’s 2010 Jonathan Witchell Prize for Best Student Radio Feature has been awarded to ‘Finding Norman’, a piece about the Stirling-born experimental filmmaker Norman McLaren. You can listen to the feature here.  A collection of McLaren’s papers and artwork is held in the University Archives and a small […]
New Blog for our Lindsay Anderson Collection
Kathryn Mackenzie, Research Assistant for ‘The Cinema Authorship of Lindsay Anderson’ project has started a blog charting the progress of her work cataloguing the Lindsay Anderson Collection, and which will also discuss wider issues in the area of film and arts related archives. See:Â http://archivesandauteurs.blogspot.com/
Changes to Access to Archives and Special Collections
As a result of building work in the university library many of our rare and valuable collections will be inaccessible from December 2008 to August 2010. In September 2010 the library will re-open with improved archives stores and a new reading room. Â Arrangements have been made for access to a number of our most […]