Digitisation Strategy and Survey The University of Edinburgh already provides access to a wide range of digital resources, but we want to increase the number of our own collections available in digital format. Webpages …Continue reading →

Voyages of Discovery In this weeks’ blog post we are pleased to welcome our newest member of staff, Juliette Lichman. When not working on new orders, she has been preparing old ones to …Continue reading →

The Stories and Afterlife of Lady Grange Stories beget stories – it’s one of my favourite things about them – and archives are built on precisely this strength. Archival collections, like those at the University of Edinburgh, …Continue reading →

Scottish Court of Session Papers; digitisation pilot At present I am working on a pilot project, digitising the Scottish Court of Session Papers. The collection is held across three institutions; The Advocate’s Library, The Signet Library and …Continue reading →

Edinburgh University Students in Spain TAGS: alumni | Spanish Civil War | students It is 80 years since the Spanish Civil War broke out.  Unlike both World Wars, we have no record of University of Edinburgh students who fought (and died) in Spain …Continue reading →

2017 Library and University Collections calendar: Images from the Directory of Collections TAGS: calendar; 2017; Directory of Collections The 2017 Library & University Collections calendar, which features a wide range of images from the Library’s Directory of Collections, is available to buy now from the Main Library and …Continue reading →

Over the line – a German medic’s war TAGS: German | Levin | Medicine | neurology | photography | trenches | WW1 In this month’s edition, Louise, Archivist in Lothian Health Services Archive (LHSA), finds a different view of the First World War…. Ernst Levin (1887 – 1975) was a German-born neurologist …Continue reading →

Past Exam Papers Online Exam time is approaching again and you may find it useful to look at recent past exam papers for your course. Our Exam Papers Online web page https://exampapers.ed.ac.uk/ provides on …Continue reading →

Student newspaper digitisation project returns! TAGS: AIIG | alumni | alumni innovation initiative | digitisation | student newspaper The Student newspaper digitisation project is back! Over the next six months we’ll be digitising back issues from the late 1980s and early 1990s and making them available online at …Continue reading →

The Association For Historical And Fine Art Photography Conference 2016. “Photography delivers the curatorial message”. TAGS: AHFAP | Centre for Research Collections Digital Imaging Unit | The Association For Historical And Fine Art Photography Conference | University of Edinburgh Digital Imaging Unit | University of Edinburgh Library This year’s conference was hosted by The Imperial War Museum London. Diane Lees Director-General of the Imperial War Museums opened this year’s conference with the idea that “Photography delivers the …Continue reading →