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Friends of the Elphinstone Institute

Join the Friends
The Nicolaisen Library Fund

The Friends of the Elphinstone Institute was formally constituted at an inaugural meeting held at the Queen's Hotel, Aberdeen, 12 March 2001.

The aims of the group are:

To support the work of the Elphinstone Institute and its objectives: to study, record and promote the cultural traditions and language of communities in the North and North East of Scotland.
To establish closer ties between the Elphinstone Institute and communities in the North and North East of Scotland
To help the Elphinstone Institute raise funds.

Annual Membership of the Friends of the Elphinstone Institute costs £10 (or US$20).

To join please download a membership form here, and send it along with a cheque made out to 'The Friends of the Elphinstone Institute' to:

The Secretary
The Friends of the Elphinstone Institute
The Elphinstone Institute
University of Aberdeen
MacRobert Building
King's College
Aberdeen
AB24 5UA

You will receive a membership card, newsletters and a copy of the constitution. Look out for news of forthcoming Friends events.

Nicolaisen Library Fund

The Friends of the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, have launched an initiative to catalogue the library of Prof. W. F. H. Nicolaisen, gifted to the Institute in 1997. 'The library,' Bill writes, 'covers fields like folklore, onomastics, linguistics, English language, Scottish literature, and Celtic studies, and is to be integrated with the David D. Buchan books to form a research library in Scottish Ethnology, to be used in-situ by students and other researchers.' The resource is of major significance to the future of the Institute.

In consultation with the University Librarian, and as a first step to fulfilling the requirements of the gift, the library will be catalogued to MARC standard, giving particular priority to the folklore books, which will be of most immediate use to our students.

To help make this important development possible, please donate here:

Or send a cheque to ‘The Friends of the Elphinstone Institute’, MacRobert Building 040, King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland AB24 5UA, UK.

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