London Theatre Reviews – West End and Off West End TAGS: London theatre | performance studies | theatre studies The following information might be useful for anyone researching theatre in London, or for anyone interested in theatre and theatre studies : https://www.londontheatre1.com/reviews offers reviews of London West End and Off …Continue reading →

Research Data Management & Sharing TAGS: data | data sharing | RDM | Research Data Management A reminder … … about the forthcoming presentation of Research Data Management and Sharing, the new MOOC being presented jointly by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The …Continue reading →

On trial: Daily Mail Historical Archive TAGS: databases | history | media | Newspapers | online resources | Social & Political Sciences | trials *The Library has now purchased access to the Daily Mail Historical Archive (1896-2004). See New to the Library: Daily Mail Historical Archive.* The Library currently has trial access to the …Continue reading →

Lasswade: a green retreat from Edinburgh Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the Lothian Family History Society, who meet just outside Edinburgh in the Lasswade Centre. It was a lovely opportunity to meet some of …Continue reading →

Making the Invisible Visible – Repairs on Iron Gall Ink TAGS: Bathophenanthroline Indicator Paper | conservation | gelatine | Iron (ii) ions | iron gall ink | remoistenable tissue Last Friday, I attended a one-day training workshop on iron gall ink repairs. The session was organised by the Collections Care Team at the National Library of Scotland and hosted …Continue reading →

Women’s voices at New College Library TAGS: Church of Scotland | missionary | New College Library | Theology & Ethics | World Christianity After my last blog post which focused on the women who gave their books to support the foundation of New College Library, I’ve been thinking about some of the collections we have which …Continue reading →

Women and fiction TAGS: happylibrary “Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.” – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own To celebrate International Women’s Day 2016, and to remind students that …Continue reading →

ORCID is turning into the Yellow Pages TAGS: monkeys | ORCID As pointed out to me a number of times the use of ORCID.org IDs is rapidly growing: Oct 16, 2012: 0 Nov 21, 2014: 1,011,557 March 4, 2016: 2,014,645 (stats …Continue reading →

Trial access to Academic Video Online TAGS: Academic Video Online | Alexander Street Press | Art & Design | Diversity | Health Sciences | history | Literature & Language | Music & Performing Arts | Personal Interest | Psychology and Counselling | Science & Engineering | Social Sciences | trial | videos We have trial access to Academic Video Online (via Alexander Street Press) until 30th April.  Please complete a trial feedback form if you would like the library to subscribe to …Continue reading →

New – PPLS Librarian blog! TAGS: academic support librarian | Books | English Language | Language Sciences | Library | linguistics | Philosophy | PPLS | psychology The PPLS Librarian Blog This is the inaugural post to the new PPLS Librarian blog, one of a range of blogs – both general and service specific – from Edinburgh University Library. It is …Continue reading →