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 →

Women and religion books for International Women’s Day 2018 TAGS: Books | International Women's Day | New College Library | students | Women Here’s a selection of new books at New College Library to celebrate International Women’s Day! The Grace of Sophia :a Korean North American women’s Christology, by Grace Ji-Sun Kim, was recommended by …Continue reading →

New extended opening hours for New College Library in 2018 TAGS: New College Library | students | University of Edinburgh Students told us that they were finding it hard to access course readings held at New College Library because the library opening hours were more limited than other University Library …Continue reading →

An insight into Joseph Joachim’s life and work – Sarah and Devon’s experiences as CRC interns TAGS: Archives | cataloguing | internships | Joseph Joachim | students Earlier this year, our two interns Sarah and Devon spent a few months re-housing and listing the papers of the Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), recently donated to the CRC. …Continue reading →

Welcome to New College Library 2017 #edwelcome TAGS: Divinity | New College Library | students | welcome A big welcome to all students starting and returning to the University of Edinburgh, at the beginning of Welcome Week 2016. We’re looking forward to meeting you. To help you …Continue reading →

Student interns in Stack III this summer TAGS: New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century | sixteenth-century | students Over this summer, our three student interns, Thomas, Holly and Mila have been hard at work behind the scenes in New College Library’s Stack III. Their task was to work with …Continue reading →

Crowdsourcing Conservation at the CRC TAGS: crowdsourcing | Laing | rehousing | students | volunteers In this week’s blog, Special Collections Conservator Emily, describes the highly successful crowdsourcing conservation event held in February at the CRC… In February, we held our first ever conservation crowdsourcing event …Continue reading →

Confessions of a work placement student TAGS: Archives | history of the book | New College Library | rare books | students A guest post from MSc Book History and Material Culture student Holly Sanderson As part of the Master’s degree in Book History and Material Culture at the University of Edinburgh, …Continue reading →

Window to a Sixth-Century Scriptorium TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | greek | New College Library | students A post from guest curator Elijah Hixson, PhD student, School of Divinity This month’s student led display at New College Library features the facsimile Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus, which is on display at …Continue reading →

New College Library books recommended by students TAGS: Books | New College Library | students Student recommendations are in at New College Library! The recently purchased Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism, edited by Mark Stoll, is available as an ebook via DiscoverEd. Other …Continue reading →