News - 2009
Departmental news and events, service statistics and collection updates posted in the form of monthly listings during 2009.
December 2009
Our refurbishment
Before Christmas, the main areas of the public search room, library and administrative office have been gutted, with internal partitions, fixtures and fittings removed. The revamped layout has been defined and is starting to take shape. More...
October 2009
Archive Services Annual Review 2008-9
Archive Services Annual Review for 2008-9 is now available. Reporting on our progress on meeting our aims over the past year, the review highlights some of our achievements including:
- The acquisition of the Stoddard/Templeton Collection.
- The development of our online services, including the archives skills guide, exhibitions which include Hannah Frank, City of Glasgow Bank, and International Archives Day, and blog.
- Progress with our facilities improvement plan.
- Our contributions to support the Robert Burns 1759 to 2009 and Adam Smith in Glasgow '09 conferences.
Clyde shipyard records survey
Cheryl Brown, one of our Graduate Trainees this year, visits a Clyde shipyard on a records survey with David Powell, the Surveying Officer of the Business Archives Council of Scotland. More...
September 2009
Our refurbishment
We will be closed to the public from Monday 26th October until March 2010, while our visitor facilities are extensively refurbished. This will mean that on-site visits to view archival material will not be possible during this period. More...
Female matriculations
Anna Gurun (3rd year History & French) spent a number of Tuesday afternoons with us between mid-January and mid-March on a Club 21 placement, entering female matriculation information into a database so that we could answer enquiries about these students more quickly and reduce the use of fragile original documents. More...
August 2009
Earliest graduates go live online
Archive Services have launched a new section of the University of Glasgow Story. Users can use the site to discover the details of the 13,000 people who graduated from the University of Glasgow from its foundation in 1451 until 1896.
Acquisitions
Latest accessions that have been received by Glasgow University Archive Services in the months of July and August. More...
June 2009
Archives Services blog
You can now view and subscribe to the Archive Services blog, part of the University of Glasgow Library blog, produced by the Library, Special Collections, Archive Services and the Photographic Unit.
In conversation with... Lesley Richmond
In May the Director of Archive Services, Lesley Richmond, featured in the 'In conversation with...' (2 pages, 118kb 
) piece in the Society of Archivist's newsletter, ARC. In this article, Lesley sheds light on her career path, current initiatives within Archive Services and the wider archive community, and her favourite items in our collections. This article originally appeared in the May 2009 edition of ARC, the monthly newsletter of the Society of Archivists, and is reproduced with permission. You can find out more about the Society of Archivists on their website: www.archives.org.uk
Hannah Frank
An exhibition of the work of the artist Hannah Frank, awarded a posthumous honorary degree from the University of Glasgow on Commemoration Day 17th June 2009.
International Archives Day
The 9th of June 2009 has been designated International Archives Day. To celebrate International Archives Day, Archive Services has launched a new online resource highlighting the international scope and reputation of the University and its archive collections.
May 2009
Staff
The latest experiences and reflections from our Graduate Trainees. More...
Scottish Business Archive
The collapse of The City of Glasgow Bank exhibition, featuring images of the transcript and verdict of the trial of the bank's directors in 1878-79. More...
April 2009
Scottish Business Archive
William Denny & Brothers Ltd archives on show. More...
Archive Services visit to Irn-Bru. More...
The SBA Open Day - Recent changes in Brewing History in Scotland - was held on Friday 3rd April. More...
March 2009
Scottish Business Archive
Following on from our departmental outing to Clydebuilt at Braehead on 15th December, on 10th March we had the pleasure of hosting a return visit by a group of Scottish Maritime Museum staff and volunteers, headed by the Curator, Linda Ross. Lesley Richmond, Director of Archive Services, gave them a tour of our Thurso Street repository and searchroom, to give them an idea of the amount of material we hold and the ways in which it is stored and accessed, and answered questions over tea and biscuits. We then had an exhibition of items for our visitors to look at more closely, including contracts, specifications, plans and photographs from the John Brown & Co. Ltd collection, and brochures and a Masters & Mates personnel volume from the Anchor Line collection. We were pleased to be kept on our toes by such knowledgeable visitors, and hope to keep up these links.
February 2009
Acquisitions
Latest accessions that have been received by Glasgow University Archive Services. More...
Staff
Latest staff news. More...
Service
Latest service statistics news. More...
See previous news listings for November and December 2008.