Floppy disks. Magnetic disks.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Thin, round, flexible disks with magnetic surfaces for storing and retrieving data.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Fifty-one reels of microfilm of unpublished material of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, with contents lists and copies of unfilmed material; and microfiches and eleven floppy disks containing additional material.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.296
Dates:
1911-[?1995].
Literary, artistic and personal correspondence and papers of Alasdair Gray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14602/1-431
Scope and Contents
At the heart of this archive are the contents of the two filing cabinets which sat in Alasdair Gray’s study, and which have been catalogued here in their original filing order. These contain correspondence and papers relating to Alasdair Gray’s literary and artistic endeavours, as well as extensive personal correspondence and research materials.The most recent sections of the archive mainly relate to his last great work, his ‘paraphrasing’ of Dante’s ‘Divine comedy’, published by...
Dates:
1885-2019, undated.
Literary papers, including manuscripts and typescripts, of Dionysia Press.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13010/1-82
Dates:
1988-2008.
Manuscript drafts, corrected typescripts and proofs of 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11203/1-12
Scope and Contents
Drafts, proofs and some source materials and correspondence for 'A history maker', by Alasdair Gray.
Alasdair Gray's own manuscript drafts are accompanied by typescript transcriptions produced by his typist Scott Pearson, which are then in turn heavily annotated and corrected by Gray. These annotations then inform the next set of manuscript drafts, giving a unique insight into how the book developed and grew.
Dates:
1967, 1985, 1993-1994.
Photographs, slides, transparencies and scans relating to the work and activities of Alasdair Gray; with related digital and analogue media.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13950 Box 1(1)-Box 9
Scope and Contents
Includes slides, transparencies and photographs of artworks of Alasdair Gray and some of his friends and contemporaries, as well as audiovisual and digital material. The photo albums of images of Hillhead and the west end of Glasgow were likely collected to act as source materials for the Hillhead SPT subway mural.Many of the slides, transparencies and photographs found here were collated for use in 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009), and some were previously deposited with...
Dates:
1896-2011.
Working papers for the memoirs of Colin Simson Cadell, including audio cassettes and computer disks.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13280
Dates:
1996-1997.