An Exhibition in a Day As part of the University of Edinburgh’s Innovative Learning Week, the Centre for Research Collections ran a joint event between Conservation, Exhibitions and Archives entitled ‘An Exhibition in a Day’. …Continue reading →

Google Cultural Institute I was lucky enough to attend the Europeana loCloud Hackathon at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris, on February 11th. While I was too late to actually do any hacking …Continue reading →

Reflections on IDCC 2015: How the 80/20 rule applies to Research Data Management tools RDM Tools need to be usable by a defined and significant set of researchers A key question for universities considering which RDM tools to adopt is how broadly useful each …Continue reading →

Explore the Geology with LUNA Last week we were very excited to see a new LUNA collection go live- ‘Geology & Geologists’. This brings together images from the CRC’s Lyell collection (a wonderful mixture of …Continue reading →

Recent acquisition – Small archive relating to ‘The Jabberwock’ TAGS: Edinburgh University literary review | Ian Holroyd | The Jabberwock Assisted by the College, a small but interesting archive of material relating to the Edinburgh University literary review, The Jabberwock, has been acquired by the Centre for Research Collections (Special …Continue reading →

Access alert – e-journals unavailable TAGS: access issue | e-journals | SFX Our e-journals are currently unavailable via A-Z library links, Searcher and the catalogue.  This is being investigated by our IT staff. In the meantime, please access the journals directly on …Continue reading →

Win £50 book token! TAGS: competition | Library Discovery This summer the Library is launching a new Discovery service which will combine the functionality of the Library Catalogue and Searcher into one single search tool that will help you …Continue reading →

Getting to the Heart of the Matter This blog post starts where I left off last time (with another pun!) and details my efforts on the Thomson-Walker medical print collection thus far, describing the first phase of …Continue reading →

Trial – ACLS Humanities E-Book package TAGS: African | American | Asian | Australasian/Oceanian | Byzantine | Canadian | Caribbean | Central European | Comparative/World | e-books | Eastern European/Russian | Economic | Environmental | European | Humanities E-Book | Jewish Studies | Latin American | Law | LGBT/Queer Studies | Medicine | Methods/Theory | middle east | Native Peoples of the Americas | Science/Technology | Womens' Studies We have trial access to ACLS Humanities E-Book package until the 5th April. This electronic resource includes 4,315 full-text, cross-searchable books in the humanities selected by scholars for their continuing …Continue reading →

Leading a Digital Curation ‘Lifestyle’: First day reflections on IDCC15 [First published on the DCC Blog, republished here with permission.] Okay that title is a joke, but an apt one to name a brief reflection of this year’s International Digital …Continue reading →