A Traquair Treat As there were several separate requests recently for images from the splendid ‘Song School St Mary’ manuscript by Phoebe Anna Traquair, we decided the time was right to digitise the …Continue reading →

Globe trekking with the Roslin Glass Slides Collection Currently I am based in the Digital Imaging Unit where I am responsible for digitising a large number of glass plate positive slides (about 3500!) which make up part of …Continue reading →

Photographing the Josephine Baker Bronze by Eduardo Paolozzi TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | Eduardo Paolozzi An exciting new exhibition on the 6th floor of the main library in the Centre for Research Collections opens on the 13th November 2014 and runs until 27th of February …Continue reading →

Iconic Photography Part of our remit in the DIU has been to work through a list of ‘Iconic’ Items from the collection in our spare time. Over the years we have completed …Continue reading →

RANDOMS TAGS: chamaeleon | David Bowie | Reptiles | Special Collections I wanted to share some fantastic images that have come through the Digital Imaging Unit via general random digitization requests. This material is bound for individual researchers and would normally …Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

The Pencil of Nature TAGS: Library | photography | William Henry Fox Talbot Two of my favourite photographs in the Centre for Research Collections come from The University of Edinburghs copy of William Henry Fox Talbot’s “The Pencil of Nature“. Shelfmark Df.3.85 .The …Continue reading →