Fairytales & Chivalry at the Centre for Research Collections TAGS: CRC | Fairytales | rare books | Special Collections When I think of our rare book collections, I tend to think or row upon row of brown, leather bound volumes. This is true for a large part of the …Continue reading →

Music Online – new content added TAGS: Alexander Street Press | databases | music | Music & Performing Arts | Music Online Music Online has been significantly updated this week with the addition of: 4.5 million independent popular music tracks 1.4 million world music tracks 510,000 American song tracks 440,000 classical music …Continue reading →

Unique World Christianity Collections coming home to New College, Edinburgh TAGS: Africa | Archives | China | Divinity | India | missions | New College Library | Syria | World Christianity Now we’re in the in the final stages of the Centre for the Studies of World Christianity Library (CSWC) Project, we’re receiving daily deliveries of books to New College Library from the Library …Continue reading →

The Staff Portrait V’s the Selfie Over the years the Digital Imaging Unit have grown into the role of photographing official Library staff portraits. These images are used by the Library online to identify teams and …Continue reading →

Sport and social sciences: A Commonwealth Games inspired reading list TAGS: academic support librarian | e-books | International Relations | online resources | Politics | Sociology | sport The 2014 Commonwealth Games start today and we’ve had a look through the wealth of e-books currently available to University staff and students at the Library, to pull together just …Continue reading →

Interior Challenge In the last couple of weeks I have been out to visit both the Reid Musical Instrument Museum and St. Cecilia’s Music Hall to document the buildings prior to a …Continue reading →

Top 5 women’s studies library resources TAGS: academic support librarian | Books | databases | e-books | e-journals | gender studies | online resources | Womens' Studies Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the British suffragette movement and one of the most important feminist public figures of all time, was born today (15th July) in 1858. To celebrate her …Continue reading →

A Photo Opportunity “A picture is worth a thousand words”. As this often quoted adage alludes to, photographs have the ability to capture a moment in time. Whether they are images of stern …Continue reading →

Trial ending Thursday 17th July TAGS: Dō Sustainability | DōShorts | e-books | trials There are a couple of days left to try out 37 e-books from Dō Sustainability. DōShorts are short, practical ebooks that give you the latest thinking on a broad range …Continue reading →

The World History of Rashid al-Din, 1314. A Masterpiece of Islamic Painting     Iconic Persian Manuscript in New Exhibition at Main Library:  ‘The World History of Rashid al-Din, 1314. A Masterpiece of Islamic Painting’   The Centre for Research Collections and …Continue reading →