New books for Social and Political Science: May-June 2015 TAGS: African Studies | Books | e-books | International Relations | Politics | Science Technology and Innovation studies | 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 →

Cataloguing on Alma Since Alma go-live on Monday June 29th, the Metadata Team have been working with colleagues in Acquisitions Services and Electronic Resources to develop new, streamlined workflows for managing new acquisitions. Alma treats …Continue reading →

Finding, managing, writing and sharing research – what tools do you use? Do you use Google Drive or Word? Mendeley or Endnote? Google Scholar or Scopus? Open access or traditional journals? ResearchGate or repositories? New tools are constantly being developed, as reflected …Continue reading →

Hawick and Roxburghshire, February 1915: On a war footing… TAGS: Frederick Merrick White (1859-1935) | Hawick Express and Advertiser and Roxburghshire Gazette | K.O.S.B. | Rosebery Bantam Battalion THE HAWICK EXPRESS & ADVERTISER AND ROXBURGHSHIRE GAZETTE, 5 FEBRUARY 1915 Known by other earlier titles, the Hawick Express and Advertiser and Roxburghshire Gazette would later on become absorbed by …Continue reading →

MIMEd abroad! Two members of the MIMEd staff travel to Boston to spread the news about the SCH redevelopment.   In June, Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet and Sarah Deters travelled to Boston to attend the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS) Conference, hosted by the …Continue reading →

Last day TAGS: Fairbairn Archive | Fairbairn project | Ronald Fairbairn | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn Today is my final day working with the William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn Archive, as my six-month, Wellcome Trust funded post comes to an end. The main aim of my post …Continue reading →

School’s in for Summer! TAGS: Moray House Arvchive | Textile conservation | workshops At the beginning of June I began working with the Moray House Archive at the CRC. It’s been a fantastic collection to work with, as every box I have opened …Continue reading →

Do it like they do on the DiscoverEd channel TAGS: Annexe | collections | DiscoverEd | Library | Library Annexe | Search | University of Edinburgh DiscoverED, the University of Edinburgh’s new one step information, discovery and delivery service, is now on-line and fully operational. You can request Library Annexe items using the new service; all …Continue reading →