Compliments of the Season TAGS: Annexe | Christmas | General Collections Did you know that the Christmas card is an English invention? John Calcott Horsley, painter and illustrator designed the very first card for the commission of Sir Henry Cole, the …Continue reading →

New Oxford Medical Handbooks available TAGS: e-books | Oxford Medical Handbooks | Oxford University Press We have now added the following Oxford Medical Handbooks to DiscoverEd: Oxford Handbook of Genetics Oxford Handbook of Medical Imaging Oxford Handbook of Medical Statistics

IIIF – International Image Interoperability Framework TAGS: Conferences | Development | Digital | IIIF | images | LUNA The adoption of IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) has been gaining momentum over the past few years for digitised images. Adoption of IIIF for serving images allows users to rotate, …Continue reading →

MacDiarmid in ‘Thistleonica’: A Poem from a Forgotten Front TAGS: Andrew Graham Grieve | Christopher Murray Grieve | Hugh MacDiarmid The Papers of Andrew Graham Grieve (Gen. 2236) include a poem from a forgotten front of the First World War written by his older brother Christopher Murray Grieve, later to …Continue reading →

Statistical Accounts Online Service Redevelopment Christmas is coming and, while the goose is getting fat, the Edina elves will be sharing some of the festive traditions described in the accounts on twitter and Facebook. As …Continue reading →

MANTRA @ Melbourne The aim of the Melbourne_MANTRA project was to review, adapt and pilot an online training program in research data management (RDM) for graduate researchers at the University of Melbourne. Based …Continue reading →

Trial access to Shen Bao Digital Archive TAGS: Chinese Newspaper | Shen Bao We have trial access to Shen Bao Digital Archive until 31st December 2015.  This has been added to our E-Resources Trials webpage. The Shen Bao newspaper (1872-1949) was the most …Continue reading →

Oh Christmas Tree! TAGS: archive | David Laing | Manuscripts | rare books | Special Collections Christmas has well and truly arrived at the Main Library with the installation of a 12 foot Christmas tree. This year we decided to use images from the CRC collections …Continue reading →

Exam Papers Online TAGS: exam papers   During exam time you may find it useful to look at recent past exam papers for your course. Our Exam Papers Online web page http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/exam-papers provides on and off-campus …Continue reading →

Yolanda Sonnabend (1935-2015) We were saddened to learn recently of the death of the artist and stage designer Yolanda Sonnabend, on 9 November 2015. In May 2013 we were delighted to acquire a …Continue reading →