Winter Vacation at New College Library New College Library will close at 1pm on Friday 23 December 2016 and reopen again at 9am on Wednesday 4 January 2017. More details on opening hours for all University of Edinburgh …Continue reading →

New College Library books recommended by students TAGS: Books | New College Library | students Student recommendations are in at New College Library! The recently purchased Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism, edited by Mark Stoll, is available as an ebook via DiscoverEd. Other …Continue reading →

Find treasure in New College Library TAGS: Divinity | New College Library | students We’re welcoming Divinity postgraduate students today for library treasure hunt activities to help them get to know New College Library. Students on the five postgraduate programmes have already had access to brief video …Continue reading →

‘W’ Collection provides a window into the world of eighteenth-century India TAGS: eighteenth-century | India | missions | New College Library | rare books One of the current Special Collections cataloguing projects at New College Library is the W4/5 section which includes works on ecclesiastical history and theology. In this collection we were pleased …Continue reading →

Steps towards equality in New College Library Class Photographs TAGS: Archives | gender | New College Edinburgh | photographs | twentieth-century | Women A guest post by Chloe Elder, New College Library Special Collections Digitisation intern From the depths of New College Library’s archives, a selection of class photographs from 1857 to 1930 has been …Continue reading →

Digital video resources for Divinity TAGS: online | Religious Studies | video I’ve been following up from student feedback questions  following library induction sessions last week, and one really interesting one has been about library access to digital video recordings. The Library has recently purchased access …Continue reading →

Open Access Journals for Religious Studies TAGS: ejournals | Religious Studies We’ve recently added some new open access journals for Religious Studies to DiscoverEd, aiming to make what’s freely available online as discoverable as possible for University of Edinburgh students. These …Continue reading →

Global journals for World Christianity TAGS: e-journals | Korea | missions | World Christianity The University of Edinburgh subscribes to a wide range of academic journals for the School of Divinity, but we’re also active in making the most of open access journals that …Continue reading →

New Digital Collections for Divinity in 2016 TAGS: Divinity | online | research We’ve been able to purchase several new digital collections to support the School of Divinity in 2016. All of the below are accessible via http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-a-z and via the Divinity subject …Continue reading →

Digital explorations in New College Library : James Kirkwood’s vision today TAGS: Archives | Bible | Church of Scotland | Gaelic | library history | New College Library A guest post from Chloe Elder – New College Library Special Collections Digitisation Intern Considering the ease with which most of us have access to information, it can be easy …Continue reading →