R V Pringle - Author of Web pages on
Juan Bautista Diamante,
George Washington Wilson,
St Andrews University Library
etc.

Reg Pringle, MA MLitt (Edin.) DipComp (AbCol.) completed his master's degree in 1966 and subsequently held posts at the Universities of St Andrews (Associate Librarian, 1981-88) and Aberdeen (University Librarian, 1988-1996).   From 1990-1995 he was Project Director of Grampian Information.   More recently he has held posts as Adult Education Assistant / Community Education Worker in Aberdeenshire (1997-1998), and Lecturer in Office Technology / Software Engineering at Aberdeen College (1999-2004).   He is now a Visiting Lecturer at Aberdeen College and Assistant to the Administrator at the North East of Scotland Music School in Aberdeen.

• Juan Bautista Diamante (? 1625 - 1687)
• La Magdalena de Roma an edited version based on the 1713 Zaragoza MS. (July 2007)
• New Light on Juan Bautista Diamante, Part 1 (December 2007)
• A checklist of plays by or atttributed to Juan Bautista Diamante (January 2008)
• Who was María 'de Castro' Diamante? (February 2008)

• George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893)
• The George Washington Wilson Photographic Archive: a Postscript (March 2008)

• St Andrews University Library
• A note on the early history of St Andrews University Library (January 2009)
• Sources for Library History
  1. A revised transcript of the 'Foundation List' of 1612-13 (rev. December 2008)
  2. An edited transcript of the 'Lentron' Catalogue of c. 1644 (January 2009)
  3. An edited transcript of the '1687' Catalogue (rev. December 2008)
• Notes on the Scot Collection in St Andrews University Library (rev. July 2011)
1. An early humanity class library: the gift of Sir John Scot and friends to St Leonard's College (1620)
2. Annotated transcript of the subscription list begun under Scot's direction in the summer of 1620
3. A note on the so-called 'Commonplace Book of Sir John Scot'
4. A catologue [sic] of books belonging to the Profession of Humanity in St. Leon. Coll. receaved from Mr. Colin Vilant, 1697'