Volunteer work at the Digital Imaging Unit TAGS: Adamson | Hill | photography The Centre for Research Collections is a remarkable resource for students at Edinburgh University, not only for research purposes, but also for experience working with collections.  I am an MSc …Continue reading →

Code4Lib Last week I was lucky enough to attend the Code4Lib conference taking place in Raleigh, North Carolina. To quote from their website, Code4Lib “is a volunteer-driven collective of hackers, designers, …Continue reading →

From Noah to New Labour – New books at New College Library in April TAGS: Books | Divinity | New College Library | Theology & Ethics Floods are a theme linking two of our new books this month. Looking back to the Biblical Flood is The rocks don’t lie : a geologist investigates Noah’s flood, by David …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh Open Access update: March 2014 TAGS: "open access" "article processing fees" As of 31st March there are approximately 76,800 records in our Current Research Information System (PURE), of which 16,795 have open access documents available to the general public (22% open …Continue reading →

Boris Bućan – Printmaker TAGS: Boris Bucan | Edinburgh College of Art | Natasha Russell | Printmaking | Prints Our post today comes from Natasha Russell, Graduate Studio Assistant in Printmaking at ECA. Recently we spent a couple of hours piecing together and marveling at a stack of 18 …Continue reading →

New Exhibitions Site! To coincide with the 50 Years 50 Books Exhibition, which opened on Thursday 27th March, we have put together a sister website, which features digitised representations of some of the …Continue reading →

Media Education Foundation digital films trial TAGS: databases | media | online resources | Social & Political Sciences | Sociology | trials The Library has just set up trial access to the Media Education Foundation (MEF) digital films service provided via Kanopy streaming service. You can access this on the Databases trials …Continue reading →

Writing the North: manuscripts travel to Shetland Special Collections has loaned five manuscripts to Shetland Museum and Archives for their new exhibition, “Writing the North”, which celebrates the literature of Orkney and Shetland.  This exhibition is part …Continue reading →

ST CECILIA’S HALL SUCCESSFUL WITH HLF ROUND 2 FUNDING The transformation of Scotland’s oldest purpose built concert hall into a centre of excellence for the study, display and enjoyment of historic musical instruments has taken a major step forward …Continue reading →

Beasties I’ve seen a startling number of beasties hiding out in our Collections over the years, and the time has come to celebrate them! From the delightful details in the margins …Continue reading →