Lyell Inspires! TAGS: Archives | Archives Access and Engagement | Archives Cataloguing | Archives Transcription | Geology | marine biology | Mollusc | Sir Charles Lyell (1795-1875) This month we learn that Erin, one of our Lyell project volunteers, has had her eyes opened to the present-day natural world – thanks to inspiration from our Sir Charles …Continue reading →

End of an era – 2017-2020 RDM Roadmap Review (part 1) TAGS: Data Safe Haven | DataStore | DataSync | RDM services Looking back on three years that went into completing our RDM Roadmap in this period of global pandemic and working from home, feels a bit anti-climactic. Nevertheless, the previous three …Continue reading →

Supplier Help and Training TAGS: help | Legal databases | resources The university subscribes to hundreds of databases. It can be confusing how to navigate individual databases and resources, and although many can be searched in a similar way they all have …Continue reading →

SSSA in 70 Objects: The Tiree Clapperboard TAGS: SSSA in 70 Objects On Sunday, August 22 1976, the School of Scottish Studies filmed an open air baptism in Tiree. This was the first baptismal service of its kind in several years and …Continue reading →

Event: House of Commons Library and Briefing Paper Research TAGS: government | Law libraries | official publications | online resources | parliament | research | uk law If you are interested in legal information and the research that goes into official publications, you may find this upcoming event hosted by the Scottish Law Librarians’ Group to be …Continue reading →

SSSA in 70 Objects: CROW PIE: COOKERY FROM THE MACLAGAN MANUSCRIPTS TAGS: Maclagan | SSSA in 70 Objects The Maclagan Manuscripts Collected by: Elizabeth Kerr Residence: Port Charlotte Locality of Collection: Highland Reference: MML0772b Chosen by: Theresa Mackay Five years ago I was completing my MLitt dissertation at …Continue reading →

Introducing the Lyell Advisory Board TAGS: Archives | Archives Access and Engagement | Centre for Research Collections | collections | Sir Charles Lyell (1795-1875) | University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections We are very happy to introduce our Sir Charles Lyell Collection Advisory Board.   The Sir Charles Lyell Collection team is made up of cohort of professional curatorial, conservation, photography, public …Continue reading →

New College marks its 175th Anniversary with online exhibition  TAGS: Archives | Divinity | nineteenth-century | photographs | twentieth-century   It all began with The Disruption. Not 2020’s lockdown but The Disruption of 1843 when ministers and elders left the Church of Scotland to set up the Free Church of Scotland. …Continue reading →

SSSA in 70 Objects: Plants used in traditional Shetland medicine TAGS: Shetland | SSSA in 70 Objects Contributor: Tom Tulloch Fieldworker: Alan Bruford SA Reference: SA1978.068 Chosen by: Jenny Sturgeon My chosen object is a recording of Shetlander Tom Tulloch talking with interviewer Alan Bruford. Recorded in …Continue reading →

New to the Library: Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers TAGS: 19th century | Archives | Black history | cultural history | databases | history | Newspapers | Politics | primary source | social history | United States I’m happy to let you know that the Library now has access to Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers from Gale which provides access to a collection of 400 U.S. newspapers, covering …Continue reading →