Research and Refugees – Edinburgh genetics during the 1940s TAGS: 1940s | c.h. waddington | charlotte auerbach | chromosome theory | Edinburgh | f.a.e crew | festival of museums | fly room | george clayton | h.j. muller | home guard | inheritance | institute of animal genetics | j.m. robson | mendel | mustard gas | mutation | roslin | second world war | t.h. morgan Last Friday I delivered a talk on genetics in Edinburgh during the 1940s as part of the Scotland-wide Festival of Museums, for which Edinburgh University Library and Collections took the 1940s …Continue reading →

Data and ethics TAGS: arts data | big data | Humanities data | open data As an academic support person, I was surprised to find myself invited onto a roundtable about ‘The Ethics of Data-Intensive Research’. Although as a data librarian I’m certainly qualified to …Continue reading →

Preserving the Dumfries Presbytery Library for the future TAGS: conservation | Divinity | Dumfries Presbytery Library | Funk | John Howard | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century A guest post from Finlay West, Funk Projects Cataloguer The recently completed cataloguing of the Dumfries Presbytery Library Collection housed at New College Library, finally allows the volumes to be …Continue reading →

Meet Holly, Our Skills for the Future Placement TAGS: Archives | placement | printing | skills for the future | Typography My name is Holly and I am currently on a two week placement at ECA Archives as part of my Skills for the Future Collections Trainee programme at RCAHMS. I …Continue reading →

Drupal Camp Scotland 2014 Last weekend saw Drupal Camp Scotland (http://dcedinburgh.drupalscotland.org) take place in Edinburgh, billed as ‘The premier training and promotional event for Drupal in the Scottish calendar’. In case you didn’t know, …Continue reading →

The Universal Herbal 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 …Continue reading →

Casting in Retrograde TAGS: cast collection | Deborah Marshall | Degree Show | Edinburgh College of Art | students Deborah Marshall is a final year Sculpture student at Edinburgh College of Art. Deborah discusses her work for the ECA Degree Show 2014, which investigates the Cast Collection.  Casting in Retrograde – a diptych, …Continue reading →

New e-resources trials available TAGS: academic support librarian | databases | International Relations | literature searching | online resources | Politics | trials The Library has set up trial access to a number of online resources that may be useful for those studying politics and international relations. These include: Declassified Documents Reference System …Continue reading →

Researchers – what’s new for you from the Library TAGS: open access | post-2014 REF “Researchers – what’s new for you from the Library” is an event being held in the Murray Library at the King’s Buildings to highlight some recent developments in Library services …Continue reading →

Towards Molly* In this morning’s RLS team meeting, head of department Stuart Lewis laid down an unusual gauntlet: come up with blog posts related to (tomorrow’s) Eurovision Song Contest. Ever gluttons for …Continue reading →