Month: <span>May 2014</span>

Having a background in Fine Art through study at Glasgow School of Art I am very aware of the striking visual content that passes through the Digital Imaging Unit on…

Book Collections Business School Edinburgh College of Art School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

As photographers for the Special Collections in the University of Edinburgh Main Library, we’ve seen a fair amount of beautiful books and manuscripts, but the diversity of the collections, both…

Art Collections Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh Medical School Museum Collections Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Fascinating book of the month requested for digitisation in the DIU goes to Thomas Greens “The Universal Herbal; or, botanical, medical, and agricultural dictionary. Containing an account of all the…

Art Collections Book Collections Edinburgh Medical School School of Biological Sciences School of Chemistry School of Geosciences

Last year the Salvesen Collection, which has been in the possession of the University since 1969, was given permission to make the images publically available online for the first time.…

Archive Collections Art Collections Business School Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies School of Biological Sciences School of Geosciences School of History, Classics and Archaeology School of Social and Political Science