Pressing Matters TAGS: Special Collections As a conservator, you can often find some rather surprising and unexpected ephemera in archive and book collections. Take, for example, this folder from the University’s Aitken Collection. At first …Continue reading →

New online resources for SPS: China Law Info and PAIS International TAGS: databases | International Relations | literature searching | new | online resources | Politics | Social & Political Sciences | social policy | Sociology The Library has recently subscribed to the online databases China Law Info and PAIS International. China Law Info China Law Info is a bilingual database for China legal documents and …Continue reading →

IVF: 36 years on TAGS: beatty | controversy | edwards | in vitro | ivf | louise brown | media | test tube Since its beginnings, the science of genetics has been concerned with questions of how life is made, how characteristics are passed down through generations, and how variations occur within species. …Continue reading →

Oxford Bibliographies – new modules purchased TAGS: Buddhism | Chinese Studies | Cinema & Media Studies | classics | databases | Islamic Studies | Latin American | Medieval Studies | Oxford University Press | Philosophy | Victorian Literature Our existing Oxford Bibliographies collection has been expanded so we now have access to modules in Buddhism, Chinese Studies, Cinema & Media Studies, Classics, Islamic Studies, Latin American Studies, Medieval …Continue reading →

Making the Most of the Intern(et) Our wonderful Intern Gemma is leaving us today, but she has managed to squeeze in one more post before she goes. Gemma has done some really amazing work for us, …Continue reading →

Service interruption for ScienceDirect – July 26 TAGS: e-books | e-journals | ScienceDirect The ScienceDirect platform will be unavailable for 30 minutes of scheduled maintenance on Saturday, July 26 from 12:00 BST until 12:30 BST.  It is also possible that you may experience …Continue reading →

Festival Concerts We are looking forward to the last Festival before we close for redevelopment, and the fantastic series of concerts being organised by the Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall. We have …Continue reading →

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 →