IIIF is live! This week, and just scraping in before the end of the year, we upgraded the LUNA imaging platform to version 7.2. This is important to us for two reasons: the …Continue reading →

Evaluation of Digital Cultural Resources in Glasgow The revamped Kelvin Hall in Glasgow was the destination for the Scottish Digital Cultural Heritage Evaluation Network’s winter symposium, on December 12 and 13. Now the home of much of …Continue reading →

New books in the Library for History, Classics and Archaeology TAGS: Ancient history | Archaeology | Books | classics | e-books | history | Medieval history 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 (very) small …Continue reading →

Oxford Handbooks Online – new e-books added TAGS: e-books | Oxford Handbooks We have added the following Oxford Handbooks to DiscoverEd: The Oxford handbook of the Aztecs / edited by Deborah L. Nichols and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría. Oxford handbook of contemporary Buddhism / …Continue reading →

Winter Vacation at New College Library New College Library will close at 1pm on Friday 23 December 2016 and reopen again at 9am on Wednesday 4 January 2017. More details on opening hours for all University of Edinburgh …Continue reading →

End of an Internship TAGS: CMC poultice | Internship | medical portraits | Thomson-Walker Victoria Haddock, the second in a series of interns working on the Thomson-Walker collection, reviews her time spent at the CRC in this week’s blog post. If you’d like to …Continue reading →

New College Library books recommended by students TAGS: Books | New College Library | students Student recommendations are in at New College Library! The recently purchased Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism, edited by Mark Stoll, is available as an ebook via DiscoverEd. Other …Continue reading →

2nd C. Sculpture to Star Wars Props: 3D, a Force Awakens? During a photogrammetry training session with Clara Molina Sanchez, we were recommended to choose objects with a matt surface, small to medium in size, and which didn’t have many holes …Continue reading →

The Statistical Accounts of Scotland Online – My statacc This is the last in a series of blog posts about some of the functionality you may have come across (or may not have yet discovered!) in the new Statistical …Continue reading →

The Statistical Accounts of Scotland Online – Images and Words This is the second in a series of blog posts about some of the functionality you may have come across (or may not have yet discovered!) in the new Statistical …Continue reading →