Digitising Darwin Over the years several Darwin originals have made their way to us for photography- a handwritten sheet from the manuscript of ‘On the Origin of Species’, his class cards, letters …Continue reading →

The disgruntlements of old age… TAGS: CRC | D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson | differential birth rate | Edinburgh University Special Collections | Eugenics | Intelligence | natural history | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson | University of Edinburgh | University of St Andrews Disgruntlement.  The archives are full of it – though I should stress I am referring to the contents of our records rather than our lovely readers (or indeed my lovely  …Continue reading →

WILD ABOUT THE LIBRARY Joanne Murdie Library Shelver In my spare time I am a volunteer at Edinburgh Zoo where I have the privilege of spending time with and talking to visitors about many …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh Open Access update: Jan 2014 TAGS: "open access" "article processing fees" | RCUK | Wellcome Trust To restart the Open Scholarship blog for 2014 we are publishing a monthly series of posts detailing the open access activity that the Scholarly Communications Team is helping to facilitate …Continue reading →

Dumfries Presbytery Library Project at New College Library now complete TAGS: Divinity | Funk | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century | sixteenth-century We’re pleased to announce that the Dumfries Presbytery Library Cataloguing Project is now complete. This project is one of the Funk Cataloguing Projects at New College Library.   This is a collection …Continue reading →

Volunteer of the Month – January 2014 Beth Dumas, CRC Taster Day Volunteer Since October, I have been volunteering with the CRC, doing one or two day sessions with each department and discovering how every job contributes to …Continue reading →

New Data Curation Profile: Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in Health Rowena Stewart, Academic Support Librarian, Information Services, has contributed a new data curation profile to the DIY RDM Training Kit for Librarians on the MANTRA website. Rowena was one of …Continue reading →

New resources for Social and Political Sciences TAGS: databases | e-books | e-journals | online resources A new webpage has been created to promote a range of new and featured resources acquired by the University Library – New Acquisitions December 2013. You can scroll down the …Continue reading →

New Academic Support Librarians for School of Social and Political Sciences TAGS: academic support librarian | contact | new On the 20th of January  2014 Caroline Stirling and Christine Love-Rodgers took over the role of Academic Support Librarian for the School of Social and Political Sciences, formerly held by …Continue reading →

The ‘Z’ Factor New College Special Collections Project now complete TAGS: Divinity | Funk | New College Library | rare books                 We’re pleased to announce that the Z Collection at New College Library, which numbers almost 5,000 Special Collections items, has now been completely catalogued online as …Continue reading →