2015 Calendar: Images from the David Laing Collection TAGS: Calendar | Fundraising | Laing The new Library and University Collections Calendar, 2015: Images from the David Laing Collection, is now available to buy online and from a number of locations across the University. Featuring …Continue reading →

Policies, Postcards and Prophylactics: Conserving Lothian Health Services Archive’s UNESCO-awarded HIV/AIDS Collections (1983-2010) My name is Emily and I am Project Conservator at Lothian Health Services Archive. LHSA is based at the Centre for Research Collections, where we share a conservation studio with …Continue reading →

SAE Technical Papers – new e-resource TAGS: databases | Engineering | SAE Digital Library | SAE Technical Papers | Technical Papers The Library now subscribes to the full collection of SAE Technical Papers available within the SAE Digital Library.  This provides access to over 90,000 technical papers from the Society of Automotive …Continue reading →

Accessible Archives – new database TAGS: Accessible Archives | databases | Newspapers Accessible Archives has been added to our A-Z list of databases – Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and …Continue reading →

Making new (3D) plans II Yesterday I blogged about our exciting plans for the display and interpretation of nearly 1000 historic musical instruments in the new St Cecilia’s Hall, including how we are able to …Continue reading →

RASHID AL-DIN 1314 Library Exhibition Time Lapse Film For the past month or so the DIU have been capturing our first ever time lapse footage of the installation of the current library festival exhibition RASHID AL-DIN 1314. We …Continue reading →

Making new (3D) plans Although we are very much focused on our ever-closer decant from St Cecilia’s Hall, it by no means takes all of our thinking time in relation to the St Cecilia’s …Continue reading →

New online resource for SPS: Peace Research Abstracts TAGS: databases | International Relations | literature searching | new | online resources | Politics | Social & Political Sciences The Library has recently subscribed to the online database Peace Research Abstracts. This is a comprehensive database for peace and conflict resolution research and is a particularly useful resource for …Continue reading →

‘Lotte’: Charlotte Auerbach (1899-1994) TAGS: auerbach | drosophila | genetics | mosaics | muller | mustard gas | mutagenesis | mutation | neurospora Recently I have been cataloguing the various papers we have concerning Charlotte Auerbach (known as ‘Lotte’ to her friends), who passed away 20 years ago this year. Mention has already been …Continue reading →

A University Library as a Publisher – Workshop, Discussion and SWOT Analysis     The Repository Fringe, an event which has become renowned for its informal, ‘un-conference’ approach and its friendly atmosphere, was held at the University of Edinburgh 30th & 31st …Continue reading →