Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) videos now available TAGS: Academic Video Online | Alexander Street Press | Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) | education | videos The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) content is now live in Academic Video Online: Premium (111 titles), ASCD is exclusive to Alexander Street. ASCD is a global leader …Continue reading →

Find treasure in New College Library TAGS: Divinity | New College Library | students We’re welcoming Divinity postgraduate students today for library treasure hunt activities to help them get to know New College Library. Students on the five postgraduate programmes have already had access to brief video …Continue reading →

The Invisible Cities Of Edinburgh TAGS: 1640's | 1700's | 1760's | 1770's | 1820's | 1830's | 1850's | 1890's | 1910's | 1960's | 2010's | Edinburgh | George Street | Invisible Cities | Italo Calvino | St. Andrew Square | Theses | Thomas Hosmer Shepherd | Yuri Herrera [Click images for full-size view] This study is concerned with examining the evolution of status areas in the context of Edinburgh. Status areas were defined in three period analyses in …Continue reading →

Bloomsbury E-Books – more added TAGS: Bloomsbury | e-books | education | Hart | Law | linguistics Earlier this year we purchased Hart 2014 and 2015 collection e-book packages, we have now purchased a further 3 collections – Hart 2016, Education 2015 and Second Language Acquisition Archive …Continue reading →

Beginner’s guide to finding a book in DiscoverEd TAGS: Books | DiscoverEd | e-books | find | Library search Got a book you need to find in the Library but not sure how to search for it in DiscoverEd? This beginner’s guide should help. If searching for a known …Continue reading →

New Cambridge University Press E-Books Available TAGS: American History | American Literature | anthropology | Archaeology | astronomy | British History | Cambridge University Press | Classical Studies | Computer Science | Drama and Theatre | e-books | Earth and Environmental Sciences | Economics | Engineering | English Literature | European and World Literature | European History | film | History Cross Discipline | History Other Regions | Language and Linguistics | Law | Life Sciences | Management | mass communication | mathematics | media | Medicine | music | Philosophy | Physics | Politics and international relations | psychology | religion | Sociology | Statistics and Probability We have added to DiscoverEd, 304 new monographs and 113 new coursebooks from the following subject areas: American History, American Literature, Anthropology, Archaeology, Astronomy, British History, Classical Studies, Computer Science, Drama …Continue reading →

Hugh MacDiarmid and Mary Poppins: An Unpublished Letter in EU Archives TAGS: Hugh MacDiarmid | PL Travers An unpublished letter from Mary Poppins author P. L. Travers to Hugh MacDiarmid in Edinburgh University’s C. M. Grieve Archive casts further light on the surprising relationship between the two …Continue reading →

Mango Languages – online language courses for trial TAGS: Arabic | Chinese | Danish | Finnish | French | German | greek | Hebrew | Japanese | Korean | language courses | Latin | Norwegian | Portuguese | Russian | Scandinavian | Scottish Gaelic | Shakespeare English | Spanish | Swahili | Swedish | Turkish The University Library has arranged a free trial of an online language learning resource called “Mango Languages”. The service offers online interactive courses for learning over 70 languages, including almost …Continue reading →

‘W’ Collection provides a window into the world of eighteenth-century India TAGS: eighteenth-century | India | missions | New College Library | rare books One of the current Special Collections cataloguing projects at New College Library is the W4/5 section which includes works on ecclesiastical history and theology. In this collection we were pleased …Continue reading →

Shooting the breeze TAGS: book of the dead | egyptian | papyrus | polyester sling | rehousing It’s not every day that you are asked to conserve a magic spell on papyrus, but this is exactly what happened when I was asked to take a look an …Continue reading →