Calling all ECA alumni! TAGS: 1956 | alumni | Dog | ECA | ECA Theatre Group | James Bridie

The Power of Google… TAGS: Clave | ECA | Google | Inside Search | Picasso We’ve been using Google Inside Search to help us identify some prints in the collection. All you have to do is upload a photo and magically it can find it …Continue reading →

Divinity Student Recommendations now available TAGS: Books | Divinity | New College Library | students Divinity students have been active in recommending new books for the library, some of which are being made available as e-books. Here’s just two of the titles they recommended. New this month …Continue reading →

FAE Crew’s Off-Prints (1814-1940) TAGS: animal genetics | biology | birds | human genetics In addition to the off-prints of the various past organizations that made up the Roslin Institute, we have FAE Crew’s collection.  The majority of the off-prints in his collection, found …Continue reading →

Ars Anatomica- back from the dead! The image collection associated with the Ars Anatomica (Imaging the Renaissance Body) project has finally been restored into the LUNA image service in all its glory, here. This project was …Continue reading →

Darwin cataloguing project completed Today we have finished the cataloguing of our Darwin collection.  Almost last to be done was one of the nicest finds – offprints of two of Darwin’s early articles, on …Continue reading →

‘Encounters of a mathematician’… TAGS: Berlin | Centre for Research Collections | Edinburgh University Library | Edinburgh University Library Special Collections | Holocaust | mathematics | music | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson | University of Berlin | University of Edinburgh | University of Manchester | University of St Andrews | University of Sussex | Walter Ledermann For the last few weeks, I have been cataloguing the papers of mathematician, Walter Ledermann (1911-2009).  The collection largely composes of highly mathematical letters from Thomson to Ledermann.  Having the …Continue reading →

Hymnology Collections : Ravenscroft’s Book of Psalms TAGS: Divinity | Funk | hymns | music | New College Library | nineteenth-century A guest post from Oreste de Tommasso, one of the Funk Project Cataloguers at New College Library. This item, an edition of the Whole Book of Psalmes, was recently catalogued as …Continue reading →

‘To sow the seeds of a new science…’ Happy Birthday James Cossar Ewart TAGS: birthday | bungalow | craigybield | Edinburgh | f.a.e crew | genetics | institute of animal genetics | james cossar ewart | penicuik The name of James Cossar Ewart (1851-1933) has featured regularly in this blog over the past year or so, but we wish him a happy 163rd birthday for tomorrow (26th November). …Continue reading →

Oatmeal and peppermint In March 2014 our main exhibition will feature items purchased for the collections with the help of the Friends of Edinburgh University Library.  Our intern has been looking at possible exhibits …Continue reading →