The New College Strong Room revealed TAGS: Divinity | New College Library A guest post from our Museums Studies student volunteers, Charlotte Johnson and Liz Louis. We are two postgraduate students studying for an MLitt in Museum and Gallery Studies at the …Continue reading →

Clerk Ranken TAGS: alumni | Chemistry | Clerk Ranken | students Clerk Ranken was born in 1880, Edinburgh.  Educated at George Heriot’s School, he then went to Edinburgh University, graduating BSc (Pure Science) in 1902, then DSc in 1907. He was …Continue reading →

Postgraduate Arts journal launches on hosting service TAGS: Forum | Library Learning Services | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems FORUM, University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts officially launched on Friday 6th December 2013 to coincide with the publication of their seventeenth issue, Rites & Rituals. …Continue reading →

LibQual iPad mini winners Congratulations to Robin Cathcart and Christina Mackie who won the two iPad minis we offered as prizes for completing the recent LibQual+ survey. Receiving her iPad mini, Robin thanked the …Continue reading →

A game of two halves One of the photographs in the Alan Greenwood collection depicts a chicken. This is hardly unusual in itself, seeing as Greenwood was director of the Poultry Research Centre. However, a …Continue reading →

Library and University 2014 calendar TAGS: Calendar The new Library and University 2014 calendar is now on sale. This year’s theme is Bygone Edinburgh, with all images coming from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. Highlights include …Continue reading →

The four quadrants of research data curation systems TAGS: data asset register | data curation | DataVault | metadata | private data [Reposted from https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/blog/2013/12/06/the-four-quadrants-of-research-data-curation-systems/] The University of Edinburgh, like many other universities, is currently undertaking extensive work to build infrastructure that supports and enables good practice in the area of Research Data …Continue reading →

The four quadrants of Research Data Curation Systems TAGS: Library | Research Data The University of Edinburgh, like many other universities, is currently undertaking extensive work to build infrastructure that supports and enables good practice in the area of Research Data Management.  This …Continue reading →

Volunteer of the Month – November 2013 Emma Smith Exhibitions Intern and Volunteer I was the Exhibitions Intern based in the CRC during the summer and I was tasked with the planning, design and curation of an …Continue reading →

Ivanhoe in Belgium TAGS: Corson Collection | Sir Walter Scott Last weekend I was in Leuven at the Annual Conference of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE), where I’d been invited to give a paper on translations …Continue reading →