School of Humanities | Sgoil nan Daonnachdan

Dr Michelle Craig

  • Lecturer in Information Studies (Information Studies)

email: Michelle.Craig@gla.systa-s.com

George Service House, 11 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QH

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3819-5512

Research interests

My research interests are in book and library history, specifically around Scottish collections and collectors. All my research is collections-based and is heavily informed by professional roles I have held within archives and special collections departments, including most recently in rare book cataloguing of the Hunterian Library. 

My PhD thesis looked at the library of the eighteenth-century collector and physician, Dr William Hunter (1718-1783), now held by Glasgow University Archives and Special Collections. I am in the process of turning this into a monograph.

My other projects currently look at:

  • Robert and Andrew Foulis (printers, booksellers, and bookbinders to the University of Glasgow between 1742-1776)
  • University printing in early-modern Scotland
  • The development of rare book collecting in the eighteenth century
  • The library of William and Constance Burrell
  • Mapping Old College (University of Glasgow)

Publications

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2025

Craig, Michelle H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3819-5512 and Kerr-Peterson, Miles (Eds.) (2025) St Kilda: My Island Home, Christina MacDonald MacQueen. Birlinn. ISBN 9781839830853

Craig, Michelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3819-5512 and MacLean, Robert ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4169-484X (2025) Trying to flourish in a cold climate: archival insights into Robert and Andrew Foulis’ activities as printers and binders to the University of Glasgow. In: der Weduwen, Arthur and Bowdler, Basil (eds.) Print in the Archive. Brill. (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Craig, Michelle H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3819-5512 (2024) William Hunter’s library at the University of Glasgow: use and borrowing in the early nineteenth century. Library and Information History, 40(3), pp. 219-230. (doi: 10.3366/lih.2024.0184)

Craig, Michelle H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3819-5512 (2024) Editing and collecting Mary, Queen of Scots in the eighteenth century: James Anderson (1662–1728) and Dr William Hunter (1718–83). In: Reid, Steven J. (ed.) The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 125-141. ISBN 9781399523530 (doi: 10.1515/9781399523554-010)

2023

Craig, Michelle H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3819-5512 (2023) Speaking Volumes: Books with Histories, by David Pearson. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2022. Library and Information History, 39(2), pp. 136-137. (doi: 10.3366/lih.2023.0149)[Book Review]

2018

Craig, Michelle H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3819-5512 (2018) The library. In: Campbell, Mungo and Flis, Nathan (eds.) William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300236651

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Articles

Craig, Michelle H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3819-5512 (2024) William Hunter’s library at the University of Glasgow: use and borrowing in the early nineteenth century. Library and Information History, 40(3), pp. 219-230. (doi: 10.3366/lih.2024.0184)

Book Sections

Craig, Michelle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3819-5512 and MacLean, Robert ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4169-484X (2025) Trying to flourish in a cold climate: archival insights into Robert and Andrew Foulis’ activities as printers and binders to the University of Glasgow. In: der Weduwen, Arthur and Bowdler, Basil (eds.) Print in the Archive. Brill. (Accepted for Publication)

Craig, Michelle H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3819-5512 (2024) Editing and collecting Mary, Queen of Scots in the eighteenth century: James Anderson (1662–1728) and Dr William Hunter (1718–83). In: Reid, Steven J. (ed.) The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 125-141. ISBN 9781399523530 (doi: 10.1515/9781399523554-010)

Craig, Michelle H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3819-5512 (2018) The library. In: Campbell, Mungo and Flis, Nathan (eds.) William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300236651

Book Reviews

Craig, Michelle H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3819-5512 (2023) Speaking Volumes: Books with Histories, by David Pearson. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2022. Library and Information History, 39(2), pp. 136-137. (doi: 10.3366/lih.2023.0149)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Craig, Michelle H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3819-5512 and Kerr-Peterson, Miles (Eds.) (2025) St Kilda: My Island Home, Christina MacDonald MacQueen. Birlinn. ISBN 9781839830853

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Grants

Glasgow Necropolis 'Omega' Survey (2023-2024)

Glasgow City Heritage Trust, £4455
Michelle Craig and the Friends of Glasgow Necropolis

Supervision

Aylwyn Napier: 'Capturing the ethereal: The archiving of atmosphere’

Teaching

I have taught courses at all levels for UofG Classics, History, and Information Studies.

Alongside team-teaching on multiple courses within Information Studies, I currently convene:

  • Records and Evidence (MSc in Information Management and Preservation, College of Arts)

Additional information

Trustee: CILIPS

Reviews Editor: Library & Information History