Centre for the Study of World Christianity Update TAGS: andrew walls | Annexe | Catalogue | Christianity | CSWC | Library Annexe | new college | Projects | University of Edinburgh With the print collections of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity (CSWC) Library, set up by Professor Andrew F. Walls, now having been in our care at the …Continue reading →

Wiley Online Library website down TAGS: e-books | e-journals | Wiley All e-books and e-journals accessed via the Wiley Online Library platform are currently unavailable due to an unforeseen technical issue. Wiley hope to restore access as soon as possible but …Continue reading →

Employ.Ed Hidden Collections Intern – Weeks 5 to 6 TAGS: Careers | employ.ed | hidden collections | Intern | lesya ukrainka | new zealand | RAB | robert bruce | ukrain Three quarters of the internship now behind me, I have decided to focus on actually finishing off projects that I have been working on – and that means the New …Continue reading →

Dawsonera access resolved TAGS: Dawsonera | e-books Our Dawsonera e-books are fully available again.  Dawsonera apologise for the unplanned downtime which was caused by a large increase in web traffic to their web site.

Web of Science upgrade TAGS: databases | Web of Science Web of Science will be upgraded this Sunday.  This will affect all areas of Web of Science and involve intermittent downtime between Sunday July 13th at 14:00 BST until Monday …Continue reading →

Procuring a new Library Management Platform Library staff activity and recent developments Over the past few months, staff in the Library have been compiling requirements for the new library management platform, to replace our current Voyager …Continue reading →

Dawsonera unplanned outage TAGS: Dawsonera | e-books Our Dawsonera e-books are currently experiencing intermittent connection issues.  If you experience connection issues that result in a ‘page failure’ then refreshing the page or waiting a few seconds and …Continue reading →

Photo Bombed A large order from the Lothian Health Services Archive came our way recently, which included postcards from the hospital & group portraits of staff and patients. In amongst them I …Continue reading →

New books for SPS – June TAGS: academic support librarian | Books | e-books | new | Social Work This month we’re featuring a small selection of new titles purchased to support the area of Social Work in the School of Social and Political Science. Language practices in social …Continue reading →

Pipe bombs, hurt sternframes, peas, penguins, stowaways and cookery books: the Salvesen Archive TAGS: Christian Salvesen & Co. Ltd. | Salvesen & Co. | Salvesen Archive After the recent BBC whaling documentary produced by KeoFilms / KeoNorth– entitled ‘Britain’s whale hunters: the untold story’ – a spike in enquiries about the archive of the former whaling …Continue reading →