James Miranda Steuart Barry and the Crimean War TAGS: alumni | crimea | James Barry | war We recently became aware of a single letter from James Miranda Barry, written just before departure for Sebastopol shortly after its capture by the ‘allies’ in 1855. We acquired it …Continue reading →

Paper Conservators: News and Ideas Exchange 2016 TAGS: discussion | ideas exchange | Paper conservators This week’s blog post comes from Conservation Volunteers Mathilde Renauld and Paula Burbicka, who recently attended a paper conservators new and ideas exchange event at the CRC…. Scotland’s Paper Conservators …Continue reading →

There are always flowers TAGS: happylibrary There are always flowers for those who want to see them.  Henri Matisse  This week is British Flowers Week! This is a week-long celebration of British flowers and the UK cut …Continue reading →

Managing publisher’s open access memberships with Trello TAGS: open access memberships | trello As more and more publishers have started to offer open access institutional memberships we have started to struggle with the effective management of the various schemes. We are currently signed up to …Continue reading →

Less than one week to go! With less than a week to go before our first ever Knowledge Exchange Week begins, we are getting excited about meeting all of our participants. Our programme for the week …Continue reading →

Current Library Exhibitions A reminder that there are a couple of exhibitions taking place in the Main Library that you may wish to check out!

Fitba’ crazy, fitba’ mad? A football inspired reading list (again) TAGS: Books | e-books | football | Social & Political Sciences Euro 2016 kicks off tonight in France and to mark this occasion we decided to resurrect and update our football inspired reading list that we originally published almost 2 years …Continue reading →

DATA-X Workshop 2 We are holding our second DATA-X workshop on Wednesday 15 June at the James Clerk Maxwell Building, Room 3217 and are inviting PhD students and technologists to come along and …Continue reading →

Soft Furnishing Upholstery Works A number of soft seating areas within the library will undergo upholstery work during the summer – these include stools within the study pods on the ground floor, 1st floor …Continue reading →

Study Pods – Audio Visual Upgrade Over the summer, we will also be upgrading the audio-visual kit in the Student Study Pods on the ground and first floor of the Main Library. The refresh will increase …Continue reading →