Exciting news. Thanks to CILIP’s Library and Information History Group, I shall be attending a fascinating conference in Stirling soon!
Books and Borrowing 1750-1830.
The conference is 17-18 April in Stirling, and the programme for ‘Reading and Book Circulation, 1650-1850’ is on their Events page:- borrowing.stir.ac.uk/events/
My interest in this topic
It’s of special interest to me because of my work on music borrowing at the University of St Andrews in the days of the old Copyright Libraries: I examined the borrowing habits of two particular women, Miss Elizabeth Lambert and Mrs Bertram, and contemplated the changing readership over the three and a half decades under examination. This work led into my successful application as Principal Investigator of an AHRC postdoctoral research network, the Claimed From Stationers’ Hall network (2017-2018) investigating music surviving from legal deposit in the old copyright libraries.
- ‘A Music Library for St Andrews: use of the University’s Copyright Music Collections, 1801-1849’, in Journal of Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 15 (2020), 13-33.)
- A Labour of Love for Miss Lambert – blogpost on this present blog, 20 November 2019
- Guest blogpost: EAERN (Eighteenth-Century Arts Education Research Network) ‘Mrs Bertram’s Music Borrowing: Reading Between the Lines’, 18 Sept 2017, https://eaern.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/mrs-bertrams-music-borrowing-readingbetween-the-lines/
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 