Inspiring Minds

Tom Grady gets a bit lost in the Library catalogue.  I was doing some research recently, trying to find pictures of greyhounds in the Lib...

One of the most enjoyable aspects of our job is getting to see new acquisitions for the Library before they go out on the shelves. A few ...

Ilka Heale peruses the Library's cookery books. "A good dinner is of great importance to good talk," Virginia Woolf wrote i...

Stephen Town continues his Night Shelf donations with a bumper collection of titles from the history of art. Last week we welcomed York C...

More gems unearthed in the Art Gallery Gift collection We have now added over two and a half thousand items to the Library's stock f...

The books in the York Art Gallery collection aren’t all about art and artists; the collection also includes a couple of books on printing a...

Library Collection Space Manager Ruth Elder shares a lifelong interest in a little-known artist. I admit that this book has now been...

Rummaging through the York Art Gallery collection again, we found a clutch of artists sometimes better-known not for their art, but for the...

Looking through the Art Gallery Gift Collection  Ilka Heale  found some surprising connections The York Art Gallery collection consists...

Art Gallery Gift Collection cataloguer Matt Wigzell unearths more treasure. Another highlight from the York City Art Gallery collection ...

Matt Wigzell explores the York Art Gallery collection. While flicking through a lovely book from the York Art Gallery gift collection a f...

Despite picking up the Pulitzer Prize this year , Donna Tartt’s novel The Goldfinch lost out this week to a novel by first-time author E...

How many of you knew that the great landscape artist JMW Turner (1775-1851) spent time sketching and painting in Yorkshire? York Art G...

Image from The complete paintings of Caravaggio London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1969 As we gradually catalogue more of the York Art ...

Receiving a new gift collection into the library always feels a little bit like Christmas - you unpack it with hope and excitement that it ...