Easter Greetings from New College Library TAGS: Church of Scotland | Easter | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century New College Library is open as usual for semester time over the Easter period, see Library Opening hours for more detail. When visiting, take a moment to look at our Special Collections …Continue reading →

Olive Schreiner Letters Online TAGS: African Studies | gender studies | Letters | online resources | Politics | social anthropology | Sociology | Womens' Studies Olive Schreiner was an author, feminist and social theorist. Although she received no formal education Schreiner would become one of the most important social commentators of her day. Her writings …Continue reading →

‘Develop a Data Vault’ project funded! The ‘Develop a Data Vault‘ proposal submitted to the Jisc #DataSpring funding call has been funded!  Jointly submitted by the Universities of Edinburgh and Manchester, the project aims to develop …Continue reading →

New books for Social and Political Science: March 2015 TAGS: African Studies | Books | e-books | International Relations | Politics | Social & Political Sciences | social anthropology | Sociology Thanks to recommendations from members of staff and requests via RAB from students the Library is continually adding new books to its collections both online and in print. Here are just a small number …Continue reading →

A knot better! TAGS: conservation | Intern | musical instrument I am writing this on the very last day of my work placement here at the University of Edinburgh. I have had an amazing six weeks learning about caring for …Continue reading →

Risk Registers TAGS: open access | RCUK | REF | risk register Today, I added a number of risks related to Open Access to the University’s Information Services Group Risk Register.  The risks were around loss/reduction of funding for Open Access and …Continue reading →

New data analysis and visualisation service Statistical Analysis without Statistical Software The Data Library now has an SDA server (Survey Documentation and Analysis), and is ready to load numeric data files for access by either University …Continue reading →

Fairbairn Archive Mystery Item of the Month TAGS: Archives | poetry | Psychoanalysis | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn One of the elements of archival work I have always enjoyed is the opportunity to get to know a collection really intimately. In order to generate intelligible finding aids for researchers, …Continue reading →

A Traquair Treat As there were several separate requests recently for images from the splendid ‘Song School St Mary’ manuscript by Phoebe Anna Traquair, we decided the time was right to digitise the …Continue reading →

Unwrapping the Martin Hall Collection TAGS: Biblical Studies | Divinity | Funk | medieval | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century This January we began cataloguing work on the MR Collection from New College Library’s Special Collections. This sequence contains much early and rare material, and carries the shelfmark MR because at …Continue reading →