Edinburgh’s International Inventions Exhibitions Did you know we had International Inventions Exhibitions in Edinburgh in 1886 and 1890? The most famous international exhibition was held in London in 1851 at the Crystal Palace, but …Continue reading →

The Perils of Technology: Aviation During the First World War TAGS: aeroplane recognition | aeroplanes | air warfare | aircraft | First World War The First World War was the first in which air warfare played a significant part. While aircraft were ultimately to change the face of warfare, the demands of the war …Continue reading →

History of British Guiana 1922 TAGS: British colonial history | British Guiana | British Guiana colony | British Guiana culture | British Guiana independence | History of Guyana Whilst systematically scanning early 1900’s theses, mostly on specific medical matters such as Insanity and Beri Beri, I came across a fascinating account of Guyana rural life in what was then …Continue reading →

Crowdsourcing Conservation at the CRC TAGS: crowdsourcing | Laing | rehousing | students | volunteers In this week’s blog, Special Collections Conservator Emily, describes the highly successful crowdsourcing conservation event held in February at the CRC… In February, we held our first ever conservation crowdsourcing event …Continue reading →

Nature Protocols – access back to vol.1 TAGS: e-journal archive | EISSN: 1750-2799 | ISSN: 1754-2189 | Nature Protocols We have now extended our e-access to Nature Protocols back to Volume 1 (2006). Nature Protocols is an online journal of laboratory protocols for bench researchers. Protocols are presented in …Continue reading →

Reading Music The new exhibition in the Binks Trust display wall on the 6th floor of the Main University Library shows some of the fabulous items relating to music in our rare …Continue reading →

Digitisation Strategy and Survey The University of Edinburgh already provides access to a wide range of digital resources, but we want to increase the number of our own collections available in digital format. Webpages …Continue reading →

New Conservation Internship at the CRC TAGS: Books | collection rationalisation | conservation | surface cleaning This week’s blog is written by our new conservation Intern, Holly, who is working on a collections rationalisation project within the rare books department… I am now beginning my third …Continue reading →

New Look and Feel for DiscoverEd! On Tuesday 4th July 2017 the Library rolled out a new look and feel for DiscoverEd, our online discovery service. This means there’s a new improved mobile responsive interface, so you can …Continue reading →

2 and 3D Photography: Practice, Prophecies, and Beyond- Conference at the Rijksmuseum Team DIU (well, half of it!) have been visiting the Rijksmuseum again for the biennial conference on 2 and 3D photography. 2 full days of speakers followed by another workshop …Continue reading →