‘In a World full of infinite choice, context – not content – is King’ TAGS: Archives | cataloguing | context | metadata | standards Yesterday we discussed contextual cataloguing in the group. By this I mean creating meaningful catalogues with interconnections, or a web of relationships so that a collection or item is put …Continue reading →

Paolozzi: mosaics to maquettes. Recently Art Collections Curator, Neil Lebeter, and I made a short video interview with Professor Bob Fisher and Phd student Alex Davies of the Informatics Department. Bob and Alex have …Continue reading →

Group Study Pods on the Ground Floor NOTICE: Works Underway   Works to the group study pods on the ground floor will take place week beginning 20th June.  you will still have access to the study pods on the …Continue reading →

Main Library Foyer How do you use the library? The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library Albert Einstein We are proud of the services we …Continue reading →

Welcome to KEW! And we’re off!  The Knowledge Exchange Week is now officially underway! It was my pleasure to extend an official welcome and greeting from Edinburgh University Library to the fifteen delegates …Continue reading →

Mission to the Middle East : discovering collections TAGS: Archives | Church of Scotland | Israel | Jewish | missions | World Christianity This week New College Library welcomes delegates of the 2016 conference of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity. I’ve been discovering that New College …Continue reading →

Cambridge University Press e-Journals and e-Books Downtime TAGS: Cambridge Books Online | Cambridge Companions Online | Cambridge Histories Online | Cambridge Journals Online | Cambridge University Press | e-books | e-journals | Shakespeare Survey Online | University Publishing Online Cambridge Journals Online, Cambridge Books Online, Cambridge Histories Online, Cambridge Companions Online, Shakespeare Survey Online and University Publishing Online will be unavailable Sunday 26th June from 9am to 1pm. Cambridge …Continue reading →

Twenty’s Plenty: DataShare v2.1 Upload Upgrade We have upgraded DataShare (to v2.1) to enable HTML5 resumable upload. This means depositors can now use the user-friendly web deposit interface to upload numerous files at once via drag’n’drop. …Continue reading →

New resource: Historical Statistics of the United States TAGS: data | databases | history | online resources | Sociology | Statistics | United States of America | USA I’m pleased to let you know that following a successful trial earlier this year the Library has recently purchased Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Online. Historical Statistics of …Continue reading →

Oxford Handbooks Online – new content purchased TAGS: Archaeology | Business & Management | Classical Studies | Criminology and Criminal justice | e-books | Economics and Finance | history | Law | linguistics | Literature | music | Oxford University Press | Philosophy | Politics | psychology We have purchased the following e-book collections to add to our existing Oxford Handbooks Online holdings: Archaeology – 2015, 2016 Collection Business and Management – 2015, 2016 Collection Classical Studies …Continue reading →