Pop-up IT Support Desk pilot scheme A new Pop-up IT Support Desk, situated on the ground floor concourse of the Main Library, will run from 12pm to 6pm (Monday – Friday) with late opening until 7.30pm …Continue reading →

Library open during New College Quad closure 8-22 April 2017 TAGS: New College Library Due to building works, access to New College Library via the New College Quad will be closed between Sat 8th to Sat 22nd April. However alternative access to New College Library will …Continue reading →

How to make good use of the NDL Digital Collections for Japanese Studies TAGS: Japanese | NDL The National Diet Library of Japan has released an online training course on how to make good use of their NDL Digital Collections for Japanese Studies outside Japan. The course is delivered …Continue reading →

DataVault Update March 2017 Following on from the Jisc Research Data Spring the universities of Manchester and Edinburgh have been continuing to develop DataVault.  Both institutions are currently planning local implementations, whilst working together …Continue reading →

The Boston Globe Archive on trial TAGS: 19th century | 20th century | databases | history | Newspapers | United States I’m happy to let you know the Library has trial access to The Boston Globe Historical Archive (1872-1985) from ProQuest. This resource delivers unique coverage of both New England and American …Continue reading →

19th Century Collections Online: the Corvey Collection of European Literature, 1790-1840 TAGS: e-books | English Literature | French | full-text | German Following consultations with English Literature and French Studies, the Library has just purchased a large digital collection of European literature called the Corvey Collection of European Literature, 1790-1840. As part of the …Continue reading →

The Development Of Avant-Garde Art And Ideas 1905-1924 TAGS: 1900s | 1910's | 1920s | art | Avant-Garde | Europe | European | history | PhD | russia | Russian | West | Western | youtube The film above is a review of the artworks referenced in the first three volumes of a four volume Ph.D. thesis by Ivor Davies from 1974: Certain Aspects Of Art …Continue reading →

Scottish Session Papers Condition Survey TAGS: bound volumes | digitisation | Scottish Session Papers In this week’s blog, Special Collections Conservator, Emily, describes the conservation problems encountered during a condition survey of a collection of bound volumes… I have recently carried out a condition …Continue reading →

Spotlight on film and moving images TAGS: 20th century | Britain | cultural history | databases | documentaries | Europe | film | history | primary source | social history | Spotlight on | television | United States This is part of an occasional series highlighting some of the online resources available at the Library that will be of interest to students and staff in History, Classics and …Continue reading →

The Stories and Afterlife of Lady Grange Stories beget stories – it’s one of my favourite things about them – and archives are built on precisely this strength. Archival collections, like those at the University of Edinburgh, …Continue reading →