Europeana Cloud Plenary, Athens, March 18-19 The Europeana Cloud project hosted its annual plenary meeting at the Royal Olympic Hotel, Athens, on March 18-19. Norman Rodger (P & I) and Scott Renton (LDD) represented the University …Continue reading →

Ukraine crisis – suggested resources for your research TAGS: databases | media | Newspapers | online resources | Social & Political Sciences The Ukraine crisis has been headline news for a few months now. If you are looking to do some research in this area or are just interested in keeping up …Continue reading →

Picture Perfect! TAGS: drosophila | Edinburgh | genetics | institute of animal genetics | photographs | science | waddington Being lucky, as I am, to work with a wide variety of archival collections relating to the history of animal genetics in Edinburgh, it can be mightily difficult to select …Continue reading →

Fifty Years, Fifty Books Opening: 28 March 2014 | Where: Exhibition Gallery, Main Library, George Square | Closing: 14 June 2014 | Curated by: Dr. Joseph Marshall, University of Edinburgh 1962 to 2012 – Fifty Years and Fifty …Continue reading →

New Ways Of Seeing TAGS: Ms 195 A large part of what we do in the Digital Imaging Unit is fulfilling digitisation requests from all over the world from researchers and academics who want access to our …Continue reading →

Read all about it! TAGS: databases | media | Newspapers Need to access online newspapers? Looking for current news or hoping to find historic newspapers? Newspapers can be a valuable tool for researching historic events, finding current information about international, …Continue reading →

A few of my favourite things V: a gift from ‘the Polish Teachers in Uniform’ TAGS: CRC | Edinburgh university Library Special Collecions | Polish School of Medicine | Polish Students in Uniform | Polonia Restituta | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson My favourite item from all the collections I have worked with in the past 10 months is a beautiful album in the Moray House collection.  The album was made for …Continue reading →

Missionary to the North – The Paterson Bible Collection TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Funk | missions | New College Library | rare books | russia | World Christianity In early 2014 we began work to catalogue the Paterson Bible Collection, as part of the Funk Cataloguing Projects at New College Library. This collection of over 300 Bibles in …Continue reading →

French Bible Historial Now Available in Book Reader When we started at the DIU at the beginning 2004, a project to digitise a beautiful French Bible known to us as Ms 19 was already half completed, our first …Continue reading →

CRC Cataloguing Interns Beth and Fiona have recently started as cataloguing interns in the CRC, and tell us about their first experiences… Thesis cataloguing comes with its perils, for a start, until the …Continue reading →