Libraries and Class Identity in Scotland, 1800-1842: The Significance of Libraries in an Industrialising Society

这项研究项目将揭示图书馆在日益工业化的社会中建立和/或破坏阶级认同感的重要性。它分析了决定1800年至1842年苏格兰图书馆管理和使用方式的社会经济条件。我是AHRC资助的一个现有研究团队的成员，该研究团队由AHRC资助的《图书和借用1750-1830》(Books and Bording，No Date，Borging.sti.ac.uk)，该团队正在将苏格兰18家图书馆的借阅记录转录到一个内容管理系统中，该系统将于2023年4月作为一个开放访问数据库公开推出。通过探索图书馆档案材料，并追踪苏格兰各地八家图书馆的借阅记录中代表的个人，我将创建一个大量的数据集，从中我将对19世纪初苏格兰图书馆和阶级认同之间的相互关系进行分析。我的研究将在以下八个图书馆上进行：钱伯斯流通图书馆、爱丁堡约翰·格雷图书馆、哈丁顿、东洛锡安莱顿图书馆、邓布莱图书馆内内佩夫雷图书馆、珀斯希雷·奥克尼图书馆、奥尔克尼塞尔柯克图书馆、塞尔柯克教区图书馆、邓弗里斯和加洛威·威格敦图书馆这些图书馆之所以被选中，首先是为了代表广泛的地理范围，便于比较苏格兰最北端和最南端以及城市和农村地区的图书馆使用情况，其次是为了代表广泛的人口统计范围，借阅记录中代表了劳动阶级和中产阶级和专业阶层的成员。

This research project will uncover the significance of libraries in establishing and/or disrupting senses of class identity in an increasingly industrialised society. It analyses the socio-economic conditions that determined how libraries were managed and accessed in Scotland between 1800 and 1842. I am part of an existing research team, AHRC-funded 'Books and Borrowing 1750-1830' (Books and Borrowing, no date, borrowing.stir.ac.uk), which is transcribing borrowing records from eighteen Scottish libraries into a Content Management System, to be launched publicly as an open access database in April 2023. By exploring library archive materials and tracing the individuals represented in the borrowing records from eight libraries around Scotland, I will create a substantial dataset from which I will conduct an analysis of the interrelationship between libraries and class identity in early nineteenth-century Scotland. My research will be conducted on the following eight libraries:Chambers Circulating Library, EdinburghJohn Gray Library, Haddington, East LothianThe Leighton Library, DunblaneThe Library of Innerpeffray, PerthshireOrkney Library, OrkneySelkirk Subscription Library, SelkirkWesterkirk Parish Library, Dumfries and GallowayWigtown Subscription Library, WigtownThese libraries have been chosen to represent, firstly, a wide geographic range, facilitating a comparison of library use between the far North and far South of Scotland, as well as between urban and rural areas, and, secondly, to represent a wide demographic range, with members of the labouring classes as well as the gentry and professional classes represented in their borrowing records.