KEW – gardens TAGS: KEW KEW 2016’s action-packed schedule continued yesterday with an off-campus trip to the Library and Archives at the Royal Botanic Garden. Not wanting to miss the opportunity to find out more …Continue reading →

Publisher downtime alerts TAGS: Annual Reviews | BioOne | Cambridge Books Online (CBO) | Cambridge Histories Online (CHO) Cambridge Companions Online (CCO) | Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) | downtime | e-books | e-journals | Shakespeare Survey Online (SSO) | Taylor & Francis | University Publishing Online (UPO) Several publishers are taking advantage of vacation time to carry out maintenance work and platform updates.  The following affect our e-resources this weekend: Annual Reviews.  On Friday June 24 – …Continue reading →

Digital Preservation: the search for the silver bullet It is fair to say that the preservation of digital material, as an issue, it not new to anyone and that was certainly true of those present at our Knowledge …Continue reading →

Rationing and a healthy and nourishing diet during the Great War TAGS: Food Controller | rationing REFLECTED IN PARTS OF A RECIPE BOOK CREATED BY NINA BALFOUR AND VICTORIA ALEXANDRINE MONTAGU SCOTT (LATER LADY LOTHIAN) Recently acquired by Edinburgh University Library is a fine bound manuscript …Continue reading →

Behind the Scenes at the NLS TAGS: engagement | KEW | Library We have had a busy day today kicking off with a trip to the University Collections Facility at South Gyle where Hannah Mateer gave a tour of the facility and …Continue reading →

The Knowledge of Dance TAGS: Dancing | engagement | KEW | Library Following a busy first two days in the library the Knowledge Exchangers let off some steam on Tuesday night at the The Ceilidh Club at Summerhall. There was some very …Continue reading →

Visit to the Centre for Research Collections TAGS: KEW | Library | Museums | Special Collections On Day 2 of KEW, we welcomed the participants to the Centre for Research Collections (CRC). The CRC is the main point of access for the University’s heritage and cultural …Continue reading →

Sample Furniture for New Study Areas We are going to locate an assortment of different study desks and chairs which will form part of the new study areas being created later this Summer on the first …Continue reading →

Spotlight on Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) TAGS: CIA | Cuban Missile Crisis | databases | history | Kissinger | primary source | Spotlight on | The National Security Archive | United States | Vietnam War This is the first in an occasional series highlighting some of the online resources available at the Library that will be of interest to students and staff in History, Classics …Continue reading →

Student and Community Engagement TAGS: engagement | KEW | Library | Museums How can libraries, archives, and museums reach out to students, get people interested in their collections, and engage with the wider public? Sometimes it takes doing something completely unexpected. Student …Continue reading →