“Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections” is now open n in the de Beer Gallery, Special Collections, University Library.
Many of the researchers who have nominated titles for this exhibition are also, unsurprisingly, active supporters of the Centre for the Book, so this exhibition has a special resonance for the Centre, besides being a lot of fun.
Please do visit the exhibition area and view the marvellous array of materials that have been used by researchers in Special Collections. Notable items include Albinus’s spectacular Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani (1747) with Clara the rhino forming a backdrop; Gregory M. Mathews’s Supplement to The Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant (1928); Charles Brasch’s copy of Egypt and the Sudan: Handbook for Travellers (1929); Thomas Allom’s China (1843); and a rare leaf of a 14th-c Polish medieval manuscript.
The exhibition runs to 26 August 2016.
Hours: 8.30 am to 5.00 pm, Monday to Friday
De Beer Gallery, Special Collections, 1st floor, University of Otago Library
For further information, please contact Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections Librarian, University of Otago: phone 03-479-8330; email: Donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz