Archives catalogues come online TAGS: Catalogue | Katherine Brown | online access | Rev Thomas Boston Since I started working with the New College Collections, one of my main aims has been to get the archives catalogues, which sit in a papery, five binder splendour in …Continue reading →

Academic Search Complete now available TAGS: Animal science | anthropology | astronomy | biology | Chemistry | database | e-books | e-journals | Engineering | Ethnic and multicultural studies | General Science | Geography | Geology | Law | mathematics | Multidisciplinary | music | Pharmaceutical sciences | Physics | psychology | Religion and philosophy | science and technology | Veterinary science | Womens' Studies | zoology We have upgraded our Academic Search Premier subscription to Academic Search Complete. The Academic Search Complete multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 journals, including full text for …Continue reading →

Volunteer Voice – Valentina de Riso TAGS: conservation | rare books | volunteering In this week’s blog we bring you another edition of our volunteer voice, this time from Valentina de Riso, who volunteers in the conservation studio every week…. What is your …Continue reading →

A Book of Two Halves Our Projects Conservator, Nicole, describes a technique for repairing books that have broken in half in this week’s blog… I have now moved full time to the conservation studio at …Continue reading →

DATA-X Pioneering Research Data Exhibition & Symposium DATA-X has been a University of Edinburgh IS Innovation Fund project, also supported by the Data Lab and ASCUS. The project provided a dynamic platform for University of Edinburgh student …Continue reading →

Trial access: Women’s Magazine Archive TAGS: advertising | databases | fashion | gender studies | Magazines | marketing | online resources | periodicals | Politics | Popular culture | social history *The Library has now purchased access to the ‘Women’s Magazine Archive, collection I and II’. See New to the Library: Women’s Magazine Archive.* ProQuest have kindly allowed us to trial …Continue reading →

Writing from the Holy Land, writing from the heart – Robert Murray McCheyne TAGS: Archives | Israel | missions | New College Library | Palestine A post from guest curator Amy Plender, PhD student, School of Divinity The theme of this month’s student led display at New College Library is diary writing, particularly diarists writing about their experience of …Continue reading →

Trial access: News, Policy and Politics Magazine Archive TAGS: databases | history | International Relations | Magazines | Politics | primary sources | social policy | trials *The Library has now purchased access to the News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive. See New! News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive* Following a request from staff in Politics & …Continue reading →

A Book of Two Halves TAGS: angle support | book conservation | digitisation | sewing damage Our Projects Conservator, Nicole, describes a technique for repairing books that have broken in half in this week’s blog… I have now moved full time to the conservation studio at …Continue reading →

Reading the Reformation : Philipp Melanchthon TAGS: Divinity | New College Library | rare books | Reformation | sixteenth-century | Theology & Ethics Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) was born on 16 February 1497, to become a Greek scholar and Protestant theologian, and a powerful force in Reformation debate. A colleague of Luther’s at the University …Continue reading →