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 →

Free access to optional contents of JapanKnowledge TAGS: Japanese The following contents will temporarily be accessible on the JapanKnowledge platform between 1 June and 30 June 2017: 1. Encyclopedia of Japanese Historical Place Names http://japanknowledge.com/en/contents/rekishi/index.html 2. Fuzoku Gaho http://japanknowledge.com/en/contents/fuzokugaho/index.html …Continue reading →

When size matters : big books TAGS: Bible | Hebrew | New College Library | rare books A really good question was asked by one of our student interns recently about the rare books collections they were working with : “Why are the big books so big?”. …Continue reading →

New! Past Masters Commons TAGS: Philosophy We now have access to Past Masters Commons, a growing series of important texts and translations that present the history of philosophy and thought.