A Fond Farewell Friday arrived all too soon and before we knew it the first of our Knowledge Exchangers was having to depart for the airport. After a morning of workshops and metadata …Continue reading →

A Literary Pub Crawl To round off a very busy Thursday, packed with innovation fund project talks, musical instruments, a peek behind the scenes of the St Cecilia’s Hall redevelopment project and a lovely …Continue reading →

A Blustery Day Following the full treatment in the CRC on Tuesday afternoon we braved the rather windy rooftop terrace to enjoy the views with a glass of something. The sun even peeked …Continue reading →

Sample Furniture – New Study Desks The sample furniture has now started to arrive and is being displayed on the first floor Mezzanine.  Below are some images of the new study desks. We do value your …Continue reading →

Uninvited Pests TAGS: Integrated pest managment | sticky blunder traps In this week’s blog, Project Conservator Katharine discusses the new Integrated Pest Management Plan for the CRC Special Collections, and describes the common pests found in heritage institutions…. Integrated pest …Continue reading →

Main Library Collection Compression The move of collections in the Main Library is now underway. Contract staff are working on the second floor to free up shelves which will be removed later in the …Continue reading →

St Cecilia’s Hall and the University of Edinburgh’s Musical Instrument Collection Today KEW participants enjoyed a musical museums morning! We talked about our St Cecilia’s Hall Project – the University of Edinburgh’s £6.5m project to restore, renovate and make accessible Scotland’s …Continue reading →

Collections Management talk and Library Annexe tour – Hannah Mateer On Monday 20 June I gave a talk focusing on the relationship between Collections Management projects and the development of the University Estate. I spoke about the Law Library refurbishment …Continue reading →

Vetstream Vetlexicon TAGS: Canis | cats | database | dogs | Equis | Felis | horses | Lapis | rabbits | Veterinary medicine | Vetstream Vetlexicon Following a successful trial, the Library now subscribes to Vetstream Vetlexicon Vetstream Vetlexicon Canis, Felis, Lapis and Equis (dogs, cats, rabbits and horses) services are subscription based online encyclopaedias of …Continue reading →

Meet the Project Digitisation team! TAGS: Project Digitisation Assistants We’re now almost two month’s into the PhD thesis digitisation project. Find out a bit more about the project digitisation team below! Fiona I am Fiona Mowat and I have …Continue reading →