New books at New College Library – January TAGS: Books | New College Library | Theology & Ethics New College Library has a regular display of new books at the far end of the Library Hall, close to the door to the stacks. New in this month is …Continue reading →

Hermann J Muller (1890-1967), American Geneticist: Radiation and Mutation Studies in the USA, USSR and Edinburgh TAGS: genetics | radiation | USSR Continuing with the Soviet –Edinburgh genetics link, this week’s post focuses on the American geneticist and Nobel laureate, Hermann Joseph Muller (1890-1967) known for his work on the physiological and …Continue reading →

Come work with us – Data Library Assistant post Data Library Assistant EDINA and Data Library, Information Services £25,759- £29,837 per year Full Time, Fixed Term: 36 months Ref: 022330 The Data Library is working with others in Information …Continue reading →

“New” Staff Member: Ianthe Sutherland Ianthe Sutherland has re-joined Library & University Collections in the role of Library Digital Developer in Claire Knowles’ team. There are loads of projects for her to get started on …Continue reading →

Lewis Grassic Gibbon on display in Centre for Research Collections The new exhibition in the CRC Display Wall features books by leading Scottish novelist Lewis Grassic Gibbon.  Gibbon, whose real name was James Leslie Mitchell, is best known for his …Continue reading →

Annual Review Inspiration The Research and Learning Services team welcomed Ruth Miller, Learning and Development Delivery Specialist, to their weekly meeting this morning. Ruth led the team through a quiz about the Annual …Continue reading →

What would you work for? TAGS: Library One of the benefits of a blog as a publishing platform, is that we can use it for a whole range of tasks, from publishing news about new acquisitions or …Continue reading →

Happy New Year! Have you been doing too much of this recently? And started the year with a splitting headache… Or maybe you got stranded by the winter storms…. And had to be …Continue reading →

Searcher Review 2014 TAGS: Discovery | EDS | library resources | Searcher The library is working on a review of Searcher, our branded EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Over the next few months the Library will make a series of changes to Searcher. …Continue reading →

Beautiful Bindings TAGS: Annexe | digitisation | ERA | Library Annexe | thesis As part of our Thesis Scanning Service, when we come across a request for a thesis that has beautiful binding we make sure to scan and include these images in …Continue reading →