On trial: ImageQuest TAGS: images The Library has trial access – until the end of June – to ImageQuest, a unique collection of over 3,000,000 rights-cleared images from 59 of the world’s image houses.

New resource : Migration to New Worlds TAGS: anthropology | history | International Relations | online resources | Social & Political Sciences | Sociology The University of Edinburgh now has access to the online primary source collection, Migration to New Worlds, due to negotiations with JISC to provide free access to all UK higher and further …Continue reading →

Main Library Study Spaces project blog goes live During summer 2016 358 additional study spaces will be created in the Main Library.  This blog will be updated weekly with information about what is happening in the building. We will let …Continue reading →

Trials ending soon TAGS: Building Types Online | ClinicalKey | databases | e-books | e-journals | e-resources | Journal of Medical Insight | Literary Encyclopedia Last chance to try out the following e-resources and make purchase recommendations.  All can be accessed from the E-Resources Trial webpage: Journal of Medical Insight (JoMI) – on trial until …Continue reading →

A Lengthy Challenge: Photographing the Mahabharata Recently I was asked to scope the digitisation of a beautiful scroll we have in our collection, Or.Ms 510, or better known as the Mahabharata. Gemma Scott, our former Digital …Continue reading →

Staff Scholarship Scheme funds Digital Preservation course Last year I completed the Centre for Archive and Information Studies (CAIS) course on the Management and Preservation of Digital Records. The module, which is one of several Masters-level CPD …Continue reading →

New resource from Past Masters: The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953 TAGS: electronic resource | Library | Philosophy | PPLS | psychology The Library has purchased a further electronic resource from the Past Masters series in the shape of the collected works of the American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer, John Dewey. 

Past Masters – Collected Works of Dewey 1882-1953 (2nd Release) now purchased TAGS: American Philosophy | Dewey | e-books | education | Past Masters We have purchased The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953 within the Past Masters series. It includes: Dewey, John. The Early Works of John Dewey, 1882-1898. 5 vols. Carbondale and …Continue reading →

DataVault presentation and poll The DataVault has been out and about recently: first to the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) in Amsterdam in February, and more recently to the first meeting of the new …Continue reading →

Cookery & recipes – an interesting insight into the Scottish country house diet TAGS: Balbirnie | cookery | Monteviot | recipes VOLUME CREATED BY LADY NINA BALFOUR AND VICTORIA ALEXANDRINE MONTAGU SCOTT (LATER LADY LOTHIAN) Recently acquired by Edinburgh University Library is a fine bound manuscript volume of cookery and recipes …Continue reading →