RASHID AL-DIN 1314 Library Exhibition Time Lapse Film For the past month or so the DIU have been capturing our first ever time lapse footage of the installation of the current library festival exhibition RASHID AL-DIN 1314. We …Continue reading →

Photographists and the Grand Tour One of my daily problems in this job is being drawn into the objects we are digitising- it is always too tempting to start reading, and yesterday was one of …Continue reading →

Making the Most of the Intern(et) Our wonderful Intern Gemma is leaving us today, but she has managed to squeeze in one more post before she goes. Gemma has done some really amazing work for us, …Continue reading →

The Staff Portrait V’s the Selfie Over the years the Digital Imaging Unit have grown into the role of photographing official Library staff portraits. These images are used by the Library online to identify teams and …Continue reading →

Interior Challenge In the last couple of weeks I have been out to visit both the Reid Musical Instrument Museum and St. Cecilia’s Music Hall to document the buildings prior to a …Continue reading →

Photo Bombed A large order from the Lothian Health Services Archive came our way recently, which included postcards from the hospital & group portraits of staff and patients. In amongst them I …Continue reading →

Discovering the Orient     On the 2nd June, I was lucky enough to begin employment as the Employ.ed Digital Collections intern for the CRC. Although I begin with a little trepidation – …Continue reading →

Building History As part of our role here, Malcolm and I have taken many photographs of the Main Library. Over the years this has built up an archive of born digital images …Continue reading →

Anon Art Another visual essay from me this week. I thought it would be interesting to share a closer look at the amazing work of the invisible artists who populate the title …Continue reading →

A Rocky Start to the Week This week saw the start of a small project to digitise some papers that recently came to the CRC from the The Cockburn Museum, School of GeoSciences. The collection contains …Continue reading →