Editing University of St Andrews (section)

===Libraries and museums===
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[[File:St Andrews - University library.JPG|thumbnail|St Andrews University library building]]
The University of St Andrews maintains one of the most extensive [[Academic library|university library]] collections in the United Kingdom, which includes significant holdings of books, manuscripts, muniments, and photographs. The library collection contains over a million volumes and over two hundred thousand rare and antique books.<ref name="University of St Andrews Library">{{Cite web|title=University of St Andrews Library|url=http://copac.ac.uk/about/libraries/st-andrews.html|access-date=1 January 2013|archive-date=28 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128095337/http://copac.ac.uk/about/libraries/st-andrews.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The university library was founded by [[King James VI]] in 1612, with the donation of 350 works from the royal collection, at the urging of [[George Gledstanes]], the then chancellor of St Andrews, although the libraries of the colleges of [[St Leonard's College (University of St Andrews)|St Leonard's College]], [[St Salvator's College, St Andrews|St Salvator's College]] and St Mary's College had existed prior to this.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nesms.org.uk/rvp/saul/SAULHist.html |title=A note on the early history of St Andrews University Library, by R.V. Pringle |publisher=nesms.org.uk/rvp |access-date=3 January 2013 |archive-date=27 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027082921/http://www.nesms.org.uk/rvp/saul/SAULHist.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nesms.org.uk/rvp/saul/SAULCat1612.html |title=St Andrews University Library, Sources for Library History, 1 : A revised transcript of the 'Foundation List' of 1612–13, by R.V. Pringle |publisher=nesms.org.uk/rvp/ |access-date=3 January 2013 |archive-date=16 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216031708/http://www.nesms.org.uk/rvp/saul/SAULCat1612.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> From 1710 to 1837 the library functioned as a [[legal deposit library]], and as a result has an extensive collection of 18th-century literature.<ref name="Rare books">{{Cite web|title=Rare books|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/rarebooks/|access-date=1 January 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109185724/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/rarebooks/|archive-date=9 January 2013}}</ref>
[[File:St Andrews - King James Library from St Mary's quad.JPG|thumb|King James Library]]

The library's main building is located on North Street, and houses over 1,000,000 books.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Library|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/why/education/library/|website=University of St Andrews|access-date=20 July 2014|archive-date=29 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729193342/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/why/education/library/|url-status=live}}</ref> The library was designed by the architects Faulkner-Brown Hendy Watkinson Stonor based in North East England at [[Killingworth]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=DSA Building/Design Report University Library, St Andrews|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=410376|work=Dictionary of Scottish Architects|access-date=26 May 2014|archive-date=27 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527215716/http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=410376|url-status=dead}}</ref> Faulkner-Brown specialised in libraries and leisure facilities and also designed the [[National Library of Canada]] in Ottawa and the [[Robinson Library]] at Newcastle University<ref>{{Cite news|last=Compson|first=Helen|title=Arnhem hero and respected architect dies|url=http://www.hexhamcourant.co.uk/news/2.2978/arnhem-hero-and-respected-architect-dies-1.48705#|access-date=26 May 2014|newspaper=Hexham Courant|date=28 February 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527230032/http://www.hexhamcourant.co.uk/news/2.2978/arnhem-hero-and-respected-architect-dies-1.48705|archive-date=27 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Grand designers|url=http://www.livingnorth.com/northeast/people-places/grand-designers|work=Living North|access-date=26 May 2014|archive-date=27 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527221305/http://www.livingnorth.com/northeast/people-places/grand-designers|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2011 the main library building underwent a £7 million re-development.<ref name="Renovated Library reopens its doors">{{Cite web|title=Renovated Library reopens its doors|url=http://www.thesaint-online.com/2011/09/renovated-library-reopens-its-doors/|access-date=1 January 2013|archive-date=2 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202212600/http://www.thesaint-online.com/2011/09/renovated-library-reopens-its-doors/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The historic King James library, built in 1643, houses the university's Divinity and Medieval history collections.<ref name="King James Library – A Short History">{{Cite web|title=King James Library – A Short History|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/kjl/|access-date=1 January 2013|archive-date=20 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820003459/https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/kjl/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2012 the university purchased the vacant Martyrs' Kirk on North Street, with the purpose of providing reading rooms for the Special Collections department and university postgraduate research students and staff.<ref name="University to develop new library facility in iconic St Andrews church">{{Cite web|title=University to develop new library facility in iconic St Andrews church|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2012/title,91379,en.php|access-date=1 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112210438/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2012/title,91379,en.php|archive-date=12 January 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The university maintains several museums and galleries, open free to the public.<ref name="Museums About us">{{Cite web|title=Museums About us|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/museum/about/|access-date=2 January 2013|archive-date=30 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230233945/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/museum/about/|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Museum of the University of St Andrews|The Museum of the University of St Andrews]] (MUSA) opened in 2008 and displays some highlights of the university's extensive collection of over 100,000 artefacts.<ref name="Welcoming new stores for the university's museum collections">{{Cite web|title=Welcoming new stores for the University's museum collections|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/museum/news/ournews/2010/|access-date=2 January 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231000453/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/museum/news/ournews/2010/|archive-date=31 December 2013}}</ref> It displays objects relating both to the history of the university, such as its collection of 15th-century maces,<ref name="st salvators mace">{{Cite web|title=st salvators mace|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/musa/see/starobjects/stsalvatorsmace/|access-date=2 January 2013|archive-date=30 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130010910/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/musa/see/starobjects/StSalvatorsMace/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and also unrelated objects, such as paintings by [[John Opie]], [[Alberto Morrocco]] and [[Charles Sims (painter)|Charles Sims]].<ref name="MUSA blog">{{Cite web|title=MUSA blog|url=http://museumoftheuniversityofstandrews.wordpress.com/page/7/|access-date=2 January 2013|archive-date=6 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130306001129/http://museumoftheuniversityofstandrews.wordpress.com/page/7/|url-status=live}}</ref> Several of the university's collections have been recognised as being of 'national significance for Scotland' by [[Museums Galleries Scotland]].<ref name="Collections of national significance">{{Cite web|title=Collections of national significance|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2008/title,18701,en.php|access-date=29 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231000055/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2008/title,18701,en.php|archive-date=31 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Bell Pettigrew Museum houses the university's natural history collections. Founded in 1912, it is housed in the old Bute Medical School Building in St. Mary's Quad. Among its collections are the remains of several extinct species such as the [[dodo]] and [[Thylacine|Tasmanian tiger]] as well as fossilised fish from the nearby [[Dura Den]], Fife, which when found in 1859 stimulated the debate on evolution.<ref name="What is there to see? Highlights of the Collection">{{Cite web|title=What is there to see? Highlights of the Collection|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/museum/bellpettigrew/see/|access-date=2 January 2013|archive-date=20 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820003715/https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/museum/bellpettigrew/see/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:+ 908 wurde St Andrews bereits Bischohfssitz. 20.jpg|thumb|Interior of St Salvator's Chapel]]