Given in Good Faith : Science TAGS: Funk | New College Library | rare books | science The School of Divinity has recently been receiving praise for the MSc in Science and Religion programme. Visitors to the Given in Good Faith exhibition on the 6th floor of the Main …Continue reading →

CSV Mind-Blow(ve)n! TAGS: Conferences | crowdsourcing | csv | Development | Digital | images | Metadata Games | open source | spreadsheets | technology I was lucky enough to have a paper accepted to Csv,conf,2* in Berlin on the 3rd-4th of May, which was great to do, but it also got me through the …Continue reading →

Exploring the explorer – Traces of Ernest Shackleton in our collections – 10 May 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the safe arrival of the small boat ‘James Caird’ on South Georgia TAGS: Christian Salvesen & Co. Ltd. | Salvesen & Co. | Salvesen Archive | Sarolea Collection ERNEST SHACKLETON (1874-1922) – LEADER OF THE IMPERIAL TRANS-ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1914-1917 WHICH HAD LEFT SOUTH GEORGIA IN DECEMBER 1914 Shackleton’s Expedition and its fate has been much written about elsewhere, …Continue reading →

New to the Library for Social and Political Science TAGS: African Studies | Books | e-books | International Relations | Politics | Science Technology and Innovation studies | social anthropology | Social Work | Sociology Thanks to recommendations from members of staff and requests via RAB from students the Library is continually adding new books to its collections both online and in print. Here are just a (very) small …Continue reading →

Library Digital Development investigate IIIF TAGS: collections | Development | IIIF | images | Library | library labs Quick caveat: this post is a partner to the one Claire Knowles has written about our signing up to the IIIF Consortium, so the explanation of the acronym will not …Continue reading →

Wood you believe it? Identifying woods for conservation TAGS: MIMed | Muscial intrsument conservation | Ringve Music Museum In this week’s blog we hear from Musical Instrument Museums Edinburgh (MIMEd) Conservator, Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet, who recently attended a training workshop on wood identification in Norway.

University of Edinburgh joins IIIF Consortium as a Founding Member The University of Edinburgh has joined the International Image Interoperability Framework Consortium (IIIF) as Founding Members. On Tuesday 26th April, the formal agreement was signed between Gavin McLachlan, Chief Information …Continue reading →

New to the Library: The Chicago Manual of Style Online TAGS: Chicago Style | Citations | Cite Them Right Online | Referencing I’m pleased to let you know that following requests from students and staff the Library has recently subscribed to The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Access is available via DiscoverEd …Continue reading →

Given in Good Faith : Worship TAGS: Divinity | Funk | Hymnology | New College Library | rare books Currently open on the sixth floor of the Main Library at the University of Edinburgh, the  Given in Good Faith exhibition explores themes of church history, worship, scripture and science through …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Research Archive access stats: Q1 2016 TAGS: ERA Image: Bass valve trumpet. Nominal pitch: 8-ft C  (CC-BY from the MIMEd collection) Not one to blow our own trumpets too often, I’m pleased to report that during the first three …Continue reading →