I am much experience in cataloguing rare books. I trained while working on my PhD and attended the London Rare Books School courses on Provenance in Book History and European Bookbinding.
Since 2022 I have been funded by the Friends of Glasgow University Library to enhance the online catalogue of records of the Hunterian Library. This collection is part of Glasgow University Archives & Special Collections and was the basis of my PhD research (University of Glasgow, 2022).
This cataloguing project has various objectives:
- To improve the discoverability of records for public access, making the collection more open and useful for researchers.
- To clean and correct bibliographic records, conforming to current best practices.
- To add to individual records, for the first time, unique, copy-specific data, such as details about provenance, book bindings and any annotations.
So far, my project has recorded books that William Hunter bought at auction, and has added details of his own book bindings, ensuring that these books are appropriately described and searchable on the online catalogue.
Recently I’ve catalogued books with connections to Louis XIII, the Bibliothèque du roi, and the Dukes of Savoy. I have also been working on volumes that Hunter bought from the eighteenth-century Glasgow-based printer/publishers, the Foulis brothers. I am currently working on adding details of Hunter’s annotations within his books to the catalogue. My work is also helping to create new approaches to rare book cataloguing in the department, such as around binding indexes and content warnings.
The best way to find my entries is to search the catalogue here.
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