Given in Good Faith : Making Presbyterian History TAGS: Church of Scotland | Ecclesiastical History | Funk | New College Library | rare books | Special Collections If you visit the Given in Good Faith exhibition, currently open at the Centre for Research Collections, you’ll be able to see some of New College Library’s treasures set in the …Continue reading →

APCs paid “in the wild” As part of the LOCH project we have been looking at the problems of identifying Article Processing Charges (APCs) that the Library is not currently aware of – which we colloquially …Continue reading →

Trees, torture and the TR Collection TAGS: Funk | New College Library | rare books | TR At New College Library we’ve been busy cataloguing the TR Collection, one of the Funk Donation funded projects, and over 1500 items have been catalogued so far. Believed to have …Continue reading →

Lord Elgin Records 19th Century China One of the works in the ECA Rare Book Collection that places us firmly in a place and time in history is a book of photographs taken around the time …Continue reading →

Illustrated London News: trial access now available TAGS: e-resources We now have trial online access – until 20th May 2016 – to the Historical Archive of the famous Illustrated London News, which covers the entire run from the inaugural edition of May …Continue reading →

That which we call a rose TAGS: happylibrary What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet Juliet, Romeo and Juliet Today is the first day of the exam …Continue reading →

Open Education Resources (OER) Workshop – 4th May TAGS: learning and teaching | OER | open educational resources STAY LEGAL – OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCES (OER) WORKSHOP Stay legal. Learn how to create teaching and research presentations that can be shared openly on the web without infringing copyright.

New content for Twentieth Century Religious Thought : Islam TAGS: Divinity | islam | online | Religious Studies Significant new content is now available in C20th Religious Thought, Vol. II: Islam – more than doubling its size.

APCs paid in the wild TAGS: APCs | gold | open access As part of the Lessons in Open Access Compliance for Higher Education (LOCH) project we have been looking at the problems of identifying Article Processing Charges (APCs) that the Library is …Continue reading →

Boxing Clever TAGS: book boxes | Laing | Preventative Conservation | rehousing Rehousing is a key part of conservation. But why is it so important? Find out in this week’s blog from Special Collections Conservator, Emily… We recently received a large number …Continue reading →