New books at New College Library – August TAGS: Books | Divinity | early christianity | library catalogue | New College Library | Theology & Ethics | University of Edinburgh New College Library has a regular display of new books at the far end of the Library Hall, close to the door to the stacks. New in this month is Caesar …Continue reading →

Baldwin Brown Images of Old Edinburgh Recently in the DIU we have been digitizing 21 negatives of images described on their box Shelf-mark – E2005.1 Box 5, as ” Old Edinburgh.” We are aware that some …Continue reading →

Making research ‘really reproducible’ Listening to Victoria Stodden, Assistant Professor of Statistics at Columbia University, give the keynote speech at the recent Open Repositories conference in lovely Prince Edward Island Canada, I realised we …Continue reading →

New Darwin discovery This appears to be a previously-unknown collection of shells formed by Charles Darwin.  Whilst cataloguing chosen exhibits for an upcoming exhibition, myself and Gillian McCay the geology curator tipped out …Continue reading →

New Book in LUNA Book Reader Last month we digitised the fantastic Recueil de Desseins Ridicules, 1695 by George Focus (shelfmark SRD.1.2) for an order, but were so fascinated by the images that we thought it …Continue reading →

From slave trader to ‘Amazing Grace’ – John Newton TAGS: Church of England | Divinity | eighteenth-century | Hymn | hymns | New College Library | rare books | revival | slavery | Special Collections | Z Collection Today marks the anniversary of the birth of John Newton, Anglican clergyman and hymn writer. This volume from New College Library’s Special Collections tells his remarkable story. The Authentic narrative …Continue reading →

Open Access journal Concept publishes summer issue TAGS: journal hosting service | OJS | open access Concept, The Journal of Contemporary Community Education Practice Theory has published its Summer 2013 issue. As well as a contribution from internationally respected and well published academic, Mike Newman there …Continue reading →

LUNA highlights available on Flickr TAGS: Development The CRC’s image collection is available through the LUNA image discovery tool, and can be accessed here. This is great, but there’s a need to get the collections well-publicised, through …Continue reading →

Analogue Photoshop? TAGS: Towards Dolly This week we started a trial – photographing some Glass Lantern Slides for the Towards Dolly Project, & one of the first images we took showed that there is nothing …Continue reading →

Shiny New Camera Arrives in the DIU Last week saw the delivery of our brand new camera- the Hasselblad H5D-200MS. This camera is hot off the press with only a few in the country so far. Capable …Continue reading →