The Good, the Fair and the Unusable. Conservation of Session Papers at the CRC. TAGS: digitisation | Session Papers This week, Projects Conservator Nicole introduces a brand new project she is working on at the CRC… I am currently working on a 6-month pilot project to conserve three collections …Continue reading →

Food and drink in Scotland: Food provision, scarcity and health This is the third and final post exploring food and drink in Scotland during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Here we look at the provision of food as …Continue reading →

Springer e-books – new titles added to DiscoverEd TAGS: e-books | SHEDL | Springer We have now loaded over 3,200 e-books across most subject areas into DiscoverEd. We will add the remainder of 2018 copyright year e-books available to us on the Springer website …Continue reading →

Lift your head and look out “When we finally arrived at the boundary wall of the early 19th century cottage, now known as ‘Gean Cottage’, I found myself quite moved.  Here I was, where Geddes had …Continue reading →

Trial access to Practical Research and Academic Skills (video) TAGS: Practical Research and Academic Skills | Sage Research Methods | Sage Videos We have trial access until the 6th July to Practical Research and Academic Skills – a new streaming video collection available on the SAGE Research Methods website. The videos cover …Continue reading →

New books in the Library for History, Classics and Archaeology TAGS: 17th century | 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | Ancient history | Archaeology | Asia | Black history | Books | Britain | China | classics | cultural history | e-books | Europe | film | history | India | medieval | Politics | social history | United States | World War Two Thanks to recommendations from members of staff and requests via RAB from students the Library is continually adding new books to its collections both online and in print. Here are just a (very) small …Continue reading →

Law E-books – Hart 2018 TAGS: e-books | Hart | Law We have purchased the Hart 2018 law e-book collection from Bloomsbury Publishing.  We will add the 127 titles listed in this spreadsheet  to DiscoverEd as records become available. Further info …Continue reading →

Public art walk – The fragment(ed) trail TAGS: 50th anniversary | art | art walk | Edinburgh University Library | public art The library museums volunteers Ellen Embleton and Tom Roeder recently explored some of the University’s public art dotted around its extended campus. In the first part of this series, they’re …Continue reading →

Digital Resource trials for Biblical Studies and Jewish Studies May 2018 TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Divinity | greek | HCA | Hebrew | Jewish We have four new digital resource trials for Biblical Studies this month. They’re all accessible from the E-resource trials web page. Brill’s Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Non-Biblical Texts offers …Continue reading →

Admirable Geometry This week’s guest blogger is Hannah DeWitt, from the University of Edinburgh, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Francesco Barozzi, Admirandvm Illud Geometricum, (Venice:  Apud Gratiosum Perchacinum, sumptibus Io. Baptistæ Fantini Patauini, …Continue reading →