Sustainable software for research In an earlier blog post (October 2013) Stuart Lewis discussed the 4 aspects of software preservation as detailed in a paper by Matthews et al, A Framework for Software Preservation, …Continue reading →

Connected Collections ‘Connected Collections’, Library of Innerpeffray, 29 November 2014 Last Saturday, I was at the wonderful Library of Innerpeffray, Scotland’s oldest lending library (founded ca. 1680) for ‘Connected Collections’, a workshop …Continue reading →

Back to the future : New College Library’s history today TAGS: Archives | Disruption | Divinity | New College Library | students New College Library was pleased to host a visit from the Friends of Edinburgh University Library last week. As well as looking at a selection of Special Collections and touring the Library, …Continue reading →

New books for Social and Political Science: November 2014 TAGS: academic support librarian | African Studies | Books | e-books | new | Politics | Science Technology and Innovation studies | Social & Political Sciences | social anthropology | social policy | Social Work | Sociology Thanks to recommendations from members of staff and requests via RAB from students the Library is continually adding new books to its collections both online and in print. Here are just a small number …Continue reading →

Zetoc Service downtime TAGS: downtime | Zetoc The Zetoc service will experience downtime beginning on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 9:00am.  While it is expected that this may be completed in an hour, the Zetoc Service should …Continue reading →

Royal Medical Society publishes archive & Winter 2014 issue TAGS: Library as publisher | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems | publishing | Res Medica | Royal Medical Society The Royal Medical Society has now published all the back issues of their journal, Res Medica, on the library-supported open access journal hosting platform. Res Medica started in 1957 and …Continue reading →

Autumn E-Book News TAGS: Access Engineering | American History | American University in Cairo Press | Anthem Press | Archaeology | art | astronomy | Boydell & Brewer | British History | Business & Management | Cambridge Books Online | Cambridge Histories | Cambridge Histories Online | Cambridge University Press | Classical Studies | Dawsonera | Drama and Theater | e-books | Earth and Environmental Sciences | EBL | Ebsco | Economics | Economics & Finance | Edinburgh University Press | education | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research | Engineering | English Literature | European and World Literature | European History | film | Fordham University Press | General Science | Geography | history | Hong Kong University Press | International Relations & Development | Jagiellonian University Press | Language and Linguistics | Law | Life Sciences | Liverpool University Press | Management | Manchester University Press | mass communication | Mathematical Association of America | mathematics | media | Media & Culture | MIT Press | music | MyILibrary | Oxford Handbooks | Oxford Scholarship Online | Palgrave | Philosophy | Policy Press | Political Science | Politics and international relations | psychology | religion | Religion & Philosophy | Social Sciences | Sociology | Stanford University Press | Statistics and Probability | Taylor & Francis | Theatre & Performance | University of Adelaide Press | University of California Press | University of Chicago Press | University Press of Florida | University Press of Kentucky | UPSO | Yale University Press The following have seen additions to content and have been or are in the process of being added to our catalogue. Access Engineering has seen about 30 title additions as …Continue reading →

Study space during exams TAGS: exams | students | study space   Need help finding study space? In order to help ease pressure on study spaces in the Main Library during the busy exam period, Information Services (IS), EUSA and the University central …Continue reading →

Chicago, 1950, Another Look: The Erving Goffman Memorial Lecture 2014 TAGS: Books | Erving Goffman | Howard S Becker | Library | Social & Political Sciences | Sociology The Erving Goffman Memorial Lecture is being held today as part of the year-long celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Sociology department at University of Edinburgh. Today’s lecture is …Continue reading →

Favourite character from a Scottish book TAGS: Annexe | Book Week Scotland | Catalogue | David Lyndsay | Grant Morrison | Library Annexe | OPAC | Scottish Book Trust | The Invisibles | University of Edinburgh | Voyage to Arcturus As part of Book Week Scotland, the Scottish Book Trust are holding a vote to discover the most loved characters in Scottish fiction. Here, the Library Annexe staff put forward …Continue reading →