University of St Andrews Library

[1] The library's current role is to support research, scholarship and learning with high-quality services backed by preservation, promotion and exploitation of its collections.

[4] The building was designed by the architects Faulkner-Brown Hendy Watkinson Stonor based in the North East of England at Killingworth.

[12] Dating from the early Middle Ages, material in the Manuscript Department includes muniments of the university itself as well as estate, business and personal records from the Fife region and the town of St Andrews.

There are also manuscript papers on Baron Friedrich von Hügel and other individuals belonging to the Catholic Modernists.

It includes early examples of St Andrew's involvement in the history of photography as well as published and unpublished items and albums from the 1840s on.