Shorthand in the New College Special Collections TAGS: Archives | handwriting | Thomas Chalmers by Danielle Fox, Archive & Library Assistant, New College Library Shorthand writing, also known as tachygraphy, stenography, or brachygraphy, is a system of writing that uses symbols and abbreviations to …Continue reading →

From tablets to computer screens; digitising some of the oldest texts at the University TAGS: Biblical Studies | digitisation | New College Library | Special Collections by Elin Crotty, Archive & Library Assistant, New College Over the past few months, the two New College Archive and Library Assistants (ALAs) have been liaising with the Cultural Heritage …Continue reading →

What AI did next : exploring AI’s role in European theological libraries TAGS: AI | cataloguing | conference | theology I was privileged to attend the BETH = Bibliotheques Europeennes de Theologie conference in Stavanger, Norway, 20-23 September 2025, which had the theme of exploring AI’s role in Theological libraries. …Continue reading →

What we learned from our conferences : Academic Support Librarians and professional engagement TAGS: artificial intelligence | Diversity | professional development | Systematic review The Academic Support Librarians are a learning team, who have attended professional development events in line with the prioritised themes in our team workplan. Ishbel Leggat attended the RLUK conference …Continue reading →

Approaching critical library practice : CALC25 TAGS: antiracism | decolonialising | Diversity | Library I attended the online CALC25 [Critical Approaches to Libraries] Conference from 13 – 15 May 2025. The programme, slides and recordings are available at https://sites.google.com/view/calcconference/calc2025  It was great to see …Continue reading →

Reflections on Attending the BIALL Conference: Exploring AI and Legal Librarianship TAGS: AI | artificial intelligence | Law | legal information | Library | research This year, I was lucky enough to attend the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) conference for the very first time—and I hope it won’t be my last! …Continue reading →

Challenges, Changes and Collaborations– American Theological Library Association conference,  Pittsburgh June 18-21 2025 TAGS: artificial intelligence | conference | critical information skills | Library | theology I was delighted to be invited to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this year to speak at the Atla 2025 Annual meeting. It’s actually the second time I have been to a library …Continue reading →

Celebrating the Presbyterian Church of South Formosa TAGS: Christianity | missions | New College Library | rare books | Taiwan 南部基督長老教會設教七十週年紀念寫真帖 “In memory of the 70th anniversary of the Presbyterian Church of South Formosa” Yi-Chieh Chiu, Library Collections Services During recent cataloguing work at New College Library, this interesting volume …Continue reading →

AI vs the Imago Dei : views from US theological libraries TAGS: artificial intelligence | critical information skills | Diversity | Library | Philosophy | students | theology On Tuesday 18 June, I flew half way around the world to attend the Atla conference in Long Beach, California. There were two questions that Atla delegates asked me that …Continue reading →

Professional Recognition for Library teaching with the Higher Education Academy TAGS: information literacy | Library | professional development | teaching We recently celebrated the success of the latest member of the Academic Support Librarian team to gain Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, Ruth Jenkins. I caught up with colleagues …Continue reading →