Research Data Service use cases – videos and more TAGS: videos Earlier this year, the Research Data Service team set out to interview some of our users to learn about how they manage their data, the challenges they face, and what …Continue reading →

Women in Scotland: Women in work In the last three of posts on women in Scotland we have discovered that women worked in many sectors, including manufacturing (spinning, weaving, needlework,etc), and the farming and fishing industries. …Continue reading →

Impact of the War on the University and the Art College TAGS: Edinburgh College of Art | education | First World War | university | University of Edinburgh The following was written by Gillian McDonald, a MSc Scottish Studies intern, who spent some time in early 2013 looking at selected items in the archives of the two institutions …Continue reading →

That would be an ecumenical matter … Celebrating 70 years of the World Council of Churches TAGS: Archives | Church of Scotland | ecumenism | New College Library | twentieth-century In our New College Library Hall display for September 2018, we’re celebrating the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the World Council of Churches. Inaugurated in 1948, the World Council of Churches …Continue reading →

DHC2018 part 2: highlight talks There were a number of talks which stood out for me, both in terms of general interest and also in their relation to work in libraries. I’ve summarised just a …Continue reading →

DHC2018 part 1: some key themes I was fortunate to receive funding this year from UCISA to attend DHC2018 (Digital Humanities Congress – not to be mistaken with the 16th International Symposium on District Heating and …Continue reading →

Scottish Court of Session Papers: Phase 2 Pilot “The most valuable unstudied source for Scottish history….in existence.” Historiographer Royal, Professor T.C. Smout It has been a while since we provided an update on our Scottish Court of Session …Continue reading →

Welcome to New College Library 2018 #edwelcome TAGS: students | welcome             Welcome to all new and returning staff and students from New College Library at the beginning of the academic year. We’re looking forward to meeting …Continue reading →

Thomas Chalmers and The West Port Experiment TAGS: New College Library | nineteenth-century | Territorial ministry | Thomas Chalmers | West Port | West Port Experiment | William Tasker Those with an interest in Scottish church history are likely to be very familiar with Thomas Chalmers and the role he played in the Disruption of 1843 but how many …Continue reading →

New to Library: Greek Tragedy and Latin Poetry TAGS: Ancient history | Books | classics | e-books | Greek tragedy | Latin | poetry | Texts | Theatre I’m happy to let you know that the Library now has access to two further modules from Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO). This gives us online access to a further …Continue reading →