October Journal Club : “Unhiding” Special Collections TAGS: cataloguing | digitisation | Discovery | Special Collections Our second meeting of the Journal Club in 2019/20 met on Wednesday 2 October to talk about improving access to Special Collections. Our discussion article was: Marcella Tam (2017) Improving …Continue reading →

September Journal Club : Copyright and digital library development in the UK TAGS: Brexit | copyright | digital libraries   Our first meeting of the Journal Club in 2019/20 met on Wednesday 4 September to talk about copyright and digital library development in the UK. Our discussion article was: …Continue reading →

Library & University Collections Journal Club 2019-20 Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Library & University Collections Journal Club meetings in 2019. We’ve now planned a further programme of dates for the 2019/20 academic …Continue reading →

Welcome to Library & University Collections Journals Club TAGS: e-books | Systematic review Were CPD and keeping up to date with professional literature on your New Year resolutions list? Come and join us in a new Library & University Collections Journal Club. We’ll …Continue reading →

That would be an ecumenical matter … Celebrating 70 years of the World Council of Churches TAGS: Archives | Church of Scotland | ecumenism | New College Library | twentieth-century In our New College Library Hall display for September 2018, we’re celebrating the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the World Council of Churches. Inaugurated in 1948, the World Council of Churches …Continue reading →

Welcome to New College Library 2018 #edwelcome TAGS: students | welcome             Welcome to all new and returning staff and students from New College Library at the beginning of the academic year. We’re looking forward to meeting …Continue reading →

Steps Through Time at New College Library TAGS: Archives | Exhibitions | New College Library | rare books | students Have you seen the new Steps Through Time display at New College Library? Today we’re celebrating the Steps Through Time project, which developed six display panels to be mounted alongside …Continue reading →

Celebrating women pioneers for ordained ministry in the Church of Scotland TAGS: Church of Scotland | General Assembly | New College Edinburgh | Women This blog post is written by Dr Lesley Orr, School of Divinity In the year in which the Church of Scotland has welcomed the Very Revd Susan Brown of Dornoch Cathedral …Continue reading →

Digital Resource trials for Biblical Studies and Jewish Studies May 2018 TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Divinity | greek | HCA | Hebrew | Jewish We have four new digital resource trials for Biblical Studies this month. They’re all accessible from the E-resource trials web page. Brill’s Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Non-Biblical Texts offers …Continue reading →

New College Library Steps Through Time – 23-25 April TAGS: New College Library | Special Collections | students Steps Though Time is a project to create a timeline of six display panels to be mounted up the steps into New College Library. This will tell the unique story of New College …Continue reading →