Recording our instruments TAGS: DIU | MIMed | music | musical instrument | St Cecilia's Hall Working in a museum of musical instruments we are constantly aware that, for many people, it is the sound of the objects that is important above all else.  Needless to …Continue reading →

Sheep Showcase TAGS: Annexe | CRC | Dolly | Fringe | genetics | Sheep | Special Collections | Towards Dolly | University of Edinburgh Have you ever met Jordan, the Library Cat? What if there was another furry animal in the Library, maybe not as alive, but nonetheless as interesting? The Main Library’s newest …Continue reading →

Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School – days 3, 4 and 5 TAGS: DHOxSS | IIIF | Oxford | TEI Apologies for the delay! Here are  my highlights from the final three days of this year’s Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School: – On Wednesday we learned all about the Text …Continue reading →

New Arts & Crafts Binding Acquisition We are delighted to welcome a guest blog by art historian Dr Elizabeth Cumming, exploring an exciting new acquisition with a binding designed by Phoebe Anna Traquair. The Psalms of David …Continue reading →

Web of Science update on Sunday 26th July TAGS: ORCID | Web of Science Thomson Reuters advise “This release, which will be live on July 26th, primarily focused on integrating ORCID data into our platform.  We have always supported ORCID’s when they have been …Continue reading →

Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School – days 1 and 2 TAGS: DHOxSS | digital humanities | Oxford I’m down in Oxford this week for the Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS), a five-day festival of digital scholarship showcasing the latest developments in research in the field and …Continue reading →

Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: May 2015 Work was completed on collating and assembling 17 self-assessment statements for Edinburgh DataShare’s Data Seal of Approval application for trusted digital repository status. ‘Recommended File Formats’ and ‘Trustworthiness’ pages have …Continue reading →

Our most-accessed instrument! In May 2014 the University’s collections.ed.ac.uk site went live. Having been up for a little over a year it is easy to provide evidence to show how successful it has …Continue reading →

New online resource for SPS: Political Science Complete TAGS: databases | International Relations | new | online resources | Politics | Social & Political Sciences Following a successful trial in semester two, 2014-15, the Library has subscribed to Political Science Complete a major database in the areas of politics and international relations. Political Science Complete provides …Continue reading →

Dylan Thomas poem in ms: ‘In memory of Anne Jones’ I – IN THE HUGH MACDIARMID COLLECTION…: MS LETTER FROM DYLAN THOMAS AND MS POEM For several months work has been going on to bring order within the collections created …Continue reading →