Impressions from a Museum Studies Student

University of Glasgow Library Blog

Blog post by Catherine O’Neill.

Katie was on a placement in Special Collections as part of her postgraduate Museum Studies course between January and April this year. Her focus was to assist and contribute towards the public programme of the Ingenious Impressions exhibition of incunabula which opened on 27 February and closes on 21 June.

Special Collections: a tucked-away treasure

I was fortunate enough to come to Special Collections because it was my first choice when choosing a placement as part of my Museum Studies course. One of the reasons was personal – as a part-time student it is easy to feel disconnected from University life and the wider campus as a whole. Over the course of my placement I became not only part of a University institution serving the academic community, but also came to appreciate the University’s 500 year-old ancestry through learning about its book acquisitions.

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