St Cecilia’s Hall Museum of Instruments is now closed to allow redevelopment work to begin. We plan to re-open in September 2016

11th century Celtic Psalter – new book reader object in LUNA TAGS: rare books | Special Collections One of the real treasures of Special Collections is the 11th century Celtic Psalter (Ms 56)- at nearly 1000 years old, it is referred to as the oldest book in …Continue reading →

Fifty Shelves of Gray (and Nelson) TAGS: Annexe | CRC | Gowans and Gray | Nelson | Nelson Archive | New Century Library | Playbooks | Repertory Plays | Special Collections | Thomas Nelson While the cover of Fifty Shades of Grey displays a degree of restraint, publishers and consumers of the romance genre did not always have such a taste for understated dust-jackets. …Continue reading →

Welcome to the Main Library TAGS: Library | University of Edinburgh On Monday the 08/09/14 the DIU team set our time-lapse camera up in the main library forum to capture the first day of freshers week. It turned out to be …Continue reading →

Centre for Research Collections – an introduction The Centre for Research Collection is the main space for anyone wanting to access Edinburgh University’s incredibly varied heritage collections, which encompass everything from archives, rare books and manuscripts, to historical …Continue reading →

Learning about Learn TAGS: Learn | Online learning Over 4,500 courses this year will be using the Learn environment to provide students with online readings, information and activities. The staff who look after Learn are taking this opportunity …Continue reading →

Trial – Historical Texts TAGS: British Library 19th Century collection | databases | Early English Books Online | ECCO | EEBO | Eighteenth Century Collections Online | Historical Texts | history | JISC | trial We have trial access to Historical Texts a database which brings together three historically significant collections for the first time: Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) …Continue reading →

Metadata Games at #Librarypop! TAGS: images | metadata | Tagging Following on from last month’s successful Metadata Games experiment, we ran another two sessions during Fresher’s Week as part of the Pop Up Library. More than 20 people, including 16 …Continue reading →

Metadata Musing in Madrid: From Google to Big Data and Collections Norman, Rachel and Claire have been spreading the word on our work on collections.ed.ac.uk, ArchivesSpace and Cross Cutting Groups at the 4th International Conference on Integrated Data. They presented a …Continue reading →

De Gruyter E-Journals – Access Resolved TAGS: De Gruyter | e-journals Access to De Gruyter e-journals has been restored.  There are still ongoing issues with their website displaying the correct access rights so it is best to access their e-journals from …Continue reading →