Christian-Muslim Encounters in Texts TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Christianity | islam | Muslims | New College Library This week, the School of Divinity hosts the first conference of the Global Network for Christian-Muslim Studies,  Reframing Christian-Muslim Encounter : Theological and Philosophical Perspectives. In a new display in New College Library, …Continue reading →

Dealing with Data Conference 2017 – Call for Papers [Update: Deadline for submissions has now been extended to Thursday 5th October] Date:                     Wednesday 22nd November 2017 Location:             Playfair Library Themes: Balancing openness with privacy – How do you …Continue reading →

Sydney Goodsir Smith Stands for Rector TAGS: Sydney Goodsir Smith In 1951, students voting for a new Rector of Edinburgh University faced a choice between a quite extraordinary range of candidates. The election of actor Alistair Sym in 1948 had …Continue reading →

Victorian Veterinary Journals Recently I worked on digitising a small number of volumes of The Veterinary Journal from the late 19th century and late 20th century. Almost 100 years apart, the earlier volumes …Continue reading →

Student interns in Stack III this summer TAGS: New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century | sixteenth-century | students Over this summer, our three student interns, Thomas, Holly and Mila have been hard at work behind the scenes in New College Library’s Stack III. Their task was to work with …Continue reading →

Alexander Murray Drennan – pioneer of Eusol TAGS: Alexander Murray Drennan | Eusol | First World War | Medicine Alexander Murray Drennan – or Murray to his friends – was born in Glasgow on 4th January 1884, and grew up in Helensburgh before coming to Edinburgh in 1901 to …Continue reading →

New College Library Collections go under wraps during essential maintenance work TAGS: New College Library Essential maintenance work is being undertaken in September and October on the New College heating system. We will be installing protective coverings in the Library to manage risks of leaks …Continue reading →

New E-Resource – Climate Change and Law Collection TAGS: Brill | Carbon Emissions | Climate Change and Conflict | Climate change and Corporate Social Responsibility/Sustainable practices | Climate Change and Finance | Climate Change and Food Security | Climate Change and Health | Climate change and human rights | Climate Change and Indigenous Rights | Climate change and law/environmental law/human rights law/land rights | Climate change and market-based instruments | Climate Change and Natural Disaster | Climate Change Negotiations | Climate Justice | database | Environmental law | Global Environment Change/Global climate change | Human rights law and environmental/climate change | Sustainable development Following a successful trial, we have purchased Brill’s Climate Change and Law Collection. This comprehensive collection of climate change and law documents contains original source, non-edited and non-redacted “grey literature.”  …Continue reading →

Archives abound in Archives Unbound TAGS: Archives | Britain | correspondence | databases | Europe | history | International Relations | journals | Letters | Manuscripts | Politics | primary source | social history | United States | world history Exciting major online primary source database now available at the Library. I’m really pleased to let you know that the Library has got a 1-year subscription to the fantastic primary …Continue reading →

More Wiley E-Books now available TAGS: e-books | Multidisciplinary | Wiley We have signed up for a one year deal with Wiley publishing which gives access to most of their e-book content on Wiley Interscience.  At the end of the deal, …Continue reading →