Read all about it! TAGS: databases | media | Newspapers Need to access online newspapers? Looking for current news or hoping to find historic newspapers? Newspapers can be a valuable tool for researching historic events, finding current information about international, …Continue reading →

A few of my favourite things V: a gift from ‘the Polish Teachers in Uniform’ TAGS: CRC | Edinburgh university Library Special Collecions | Polish School of Medicine | Polish Students in Uniform | Polonia Restituta | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson My favourite item from all the collections I have worked with in the past 10 months is a beautiful album in the Moray House collection.  The album was made for …Continue reading →

Missionary to the North – The Paterson Bible Collection TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Funk | missions | New College Library | rare books | russia | World Christianity In early 2014 we began work to catalogue the Paterson Bible Collection, as part of the Funk Cataloguing Projects at New College Library. This collection of over 300 Bibles in …Continue reading →

French Bible Historial Now Available in Book Reader When we started at the DIU at the beginning 2004, a project to digitise a beautiful French Bible known to us as Ms 19 was already half completed, our first …Continue reading →

CRC Cataloguing Interns Beth and Fiona have recently started as cataloguing interns in the CRC, and tell us about their first experiences… Thesis cataloguing comes with its perils, for a start, until the …Continue reading →

Inspiring Research – International Women’s Day 2014 TAGS: databases | gender studies | Library | online resources | Social & Political Sciences | Womens' Studies International Women’s Day (IWD) was celebrated on 8th March 2014. IWD has been celebrated for over 100 years and this year’s theme was Inspiring Change.  The Library subscribes to a …Continue reading →

A Passage to India: J.B.S. Haldane and the Journal of Genetics The C.H. Waddington collection contains a folder of correspondence with J.B.S. Haldane, who died 50 years ago this year, concerning the Journal of Genetics. The correspondence, which covers 1956 to …Continue reading →

Searcher Review 2014: Refine your search TAGS: Discovery | Limiters | Searcher | Searcher Review When you use Searcher, you’ll  usually return a large amount of results.  The limiters on the right of the screen make it easy for you to refine your search results. …Continue reading →

Gaelic week in Centre for Research Collections To celebrate the University’s first-ever Seachdain na Gàidhlig, or Gaelic Week, yesterday CRC displayed a number of treasures from the rare book and manuscript collections.  These included notebooks of folklorist …Continue reading →

New Books at New College Library – March (recommended by students) TAGS: Books | Divinity | New College Library | students Student recommendations are in at New College Library! New in this month is Newman and his family, by Edward Short, available as an ebook via the library catalogue.   Also new is The …Continue reading →