Behind the Scenes at New College Library #ILW2014 TAGS: Andrew Bonar | Church of Scotland | innovative learning week | missions | New College Edinburgh | Thomas Chalmers A guest post from Liz Louis, student on the MLitt in Museum and Gallery Studies at the University of St Andrews and volunteer at New College Library Object Strongroom. Liz …Continue reading →

Printed Material Highlights from the Roslin Collection TAGS: coffee | dolly the sheep | evolution | roslin institute With phase I of the Towards Dolly project ending for me, the Rare Books Cataloguer, I thought to look back over the material I’ve worked with and to highlight a …Continue reading →

Donate library fines to Book Aid International It is nearly World Book Day! To celebrate it in conjunction with RAG Week, Edinburgh University Library has agreed to donate all library fines paid on Thursday 27th February to Book …Continue reading →

Out of the mouths of babes… Special Visitors at our Cabinet of Curiosities On February 6 the exhibitions team at the Main Library Exhibition Gallery welcomed the P3 and 4’s from Campie Primary School in Musselburgh. …Continue reading →

Innovative Learning Week – Online Quiz We’ve been running an online quiz during Innovative Learning Week with questions based on many of our different online resources.  The first nine questions have already been posted on the …Continue reading →

Need help with your research? TAGS: academic support librarian | Events | Library | Social & Political Sciences Do you need help or are interested in finding current news, theses or historic newspapers? Are you worried about getting your references right or avoiding copyright issues when using images, …Continue reading →

Top Tips for Finding Theses #ILW2004 TAGS: Theses Need to find out what research has already been conducted in your topic area? Some PhD research ends up being published but not all, so doing a specific search for theses …Continue reading →

Hidden faces of New College Library #ILW2014 TAGS: Archives | Divinity | innovative learning week | New College Library There’s still time to come to the Innovative Learning Week Session : Library Pecha Kucha – Our Favourite Things. Six members of staff will be allowed just 5 minutes to present …Continue reading →

Dusting for prints… TAGS: cast collection | Edinburgh College of Art | edinburgh college of art cast collection | Edinburgh University Art Collection | finger prints | morgan kinne We all like to pretend that no-one touches the things in museums. Fact is, like it or not, people do. We have been working with ECA Postgraduate student Morgan Kinne …Continue reading →

Meet the SPS Librarians at Librarians’ Question Time today #ILW2014 TAGS: academic support librarian | Social & Political Sciences It’s Innovative Learning Week at the University of Edinburgh and both your SPS Librarians will be in the Main Library Foyer this morning at the Librarians Question Time event, 11.30-12.30. …Continue reading →