Trial – Film Industry Data TAGS: Academic Rights Press | database | Film Industry Data We have trial access to Film Industry Data from Academic Rights Press until the 9th March. Film Industry Data enables the gathering of information about film trends and research into the …Continue reading →

Managing data: photographs in research In collaboration with Scholarly Communications, the Data Library participated in the workshop “Data: photographs in research” as part of a series of workshops organised by Dr Tom Allbeson and Dr Ella …Continue reading →

Recycling at the Annexe (It’s easy bein’ green) TAGS: Annexe | Dunbar | Estates | Green | John Muir | Library Annexe | Litter | Recycling | University of Edinburgh | Waste We’re happy to report that the Library Annexe has joined University’s (recycling) efforts to make our planet a wee bit more sustainable. Every little step in the right direction helps, …Continue reading →

Cite Them Right – downtime TAGS: Cite Them Right | downtime Cite Them Right will be unavailable between 08:00am and 10:00am on Thursday 12th February.  This is due to essential maintenance.

Recent acquisition – Sketch-books of Scottish architect Charles Lovett Gill (1880-1960) TAGS: architects | Architecture | Charles Lovett Gill | London Recently, a group of 13 sketch-books by the Scottish architect Charles Lovett Gill were acquired by the Centre for Research Collections (Special Collections) for Edinburgh University Library. Gill was notable …Continue reading →

Tackling a Library time capsule : The Longforgan Free Church Ministers Library TAGS: Divinity | eighteenth-century | Free Church of Scotland | Funk | Longforgan | New College Library | nineteenth-century | rare books | Roman | seventeenth-century Regular visitors to New College Library have probably walked past the Longforgan Free Church Ministers Library many times. It sits in custom made glazed bookcases, which are sited on the …Continue reading →

Edinburgh’s first geneticist: Arthur Darbishire (1879-1915) TAGS: animal genetics | genetics | Towards Dolly | Untold stories In 1911, the University of Edinburgh appointed its first Lecturer in Genetics. The Lectureship was the first academic genetics post in Britain – the Balfour Chair in Genetics at the …Continue reading →

SPS have top Resource List of semester one! TAGS: reading list | Resource Lists @ Edinburgh | Sociology Sociology 1A had the most used Resource List of semester one, 2014/15, with an average of 67.3 visits per student. Find out what the course organisers, tutors and students thought …Continue reading →

The Working Lives of Ordinary Scots We know shockingly little of how ordinary Scottish people spent their working lives in the past. We know even less about the work women did. An intriguing comment by the …Continue reading →

Mary Lyon (1925-2014) – Edinburgh connections TAGS: Edinburgh | genetics | genome | mary lyon | mottled | mouse | muscular dystrophy | mutants | x-chromosome We were saddened to hear recently of the passing of Mary Lyon, a distinguished mouse geneticist. Born in 1925 in Norwich, Mary was best known for her X-chromosome inactivation hypothesis, …Continue reading →