Google Cultural Institute I was lucky enough to attend the Europeana loCloud Hackathon at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris, on February 11th. While I was too late to actually do any hacking …Continue reading →

Recent acquisition – Small archive relating to ‘The Jabberwock’ TAGS: Edinburgh University literary review | Ian Holroyd | The Jabberwock Assisted by the College, a small but interesting archive of material relating to the Edinburgh University literary review, The Jabberwock, has been acquired by the Centre for Research Collections (Special …Continue reading →

Recent acquisition – Sketch-books of Scottish architect Charles Lovett Gill (1880-1960) TAGS: architects | Architecture | Charles Lovett Gill | London Recently, a group of 13 sketch-books by the Scottish architect Charles Lovett Gill were acquired by the Centre for Research Collections (Special Collections) for Edinburgh University Library. Gill was notable …Continue reading →

Bicentennial of the birth of Professor Edward Forbes (1815-1854), marine biologist, geologist, natural historian and biogeographer TAGS: Edinburgh University | Isle of Man | Norway | Palaeontological Society | Professor Edward Forbes | Professor of Natural History | School of Mines | University Maga DRAWING & SKETCHING, STUDYING & RESEARCHING, TRAVELLING & DREDGING, DESCRIBING MOLLUSCS & SHELLFISH, MUSEUM CURATION & PALAEONTOLOGY, PRESIDING OVER SCIENTIFIC BODIES & CLASSIFIYING TERTIARY FORMATIONS, AND LECTURING – ALL IN …Continue reading →

Tag It, Find It! TAGS: Art Collection | collections | Edinburgh College of Art | fine art | gaming | ILW | metadata | Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library | Tagging Pop-up Library is back for a limited time only in Innovative Learning Week (ILW) and we want you to say what you see! Combining two of our most popular Pop-up Library …Continue reading →

The Foundation of Anatomy: Class List of Alexander Monro (primus) TAGS: Alexander Monro primus (1697-1767) | alumni | Anatomy | Archives | staff | students From time to time we ‘rediscover’ items in our collections.  It’s not that we didn’t know we had them; rather that they have not come to anyone’s specific attention within …Continue reading →

Katie Paterson – Future Library TAGS: Collaboration | ECA Neil Lebeter, Art Curator, writes about how a forest in Norway and a new library collection in 2114 are linked We are very, very excited to announce that the University …Continue reading →

A gutsy project: A heart to heart with the new girl If you didn’t guess from the anatomical pun title, this blog post details the beginnings of my 10-week internship conserving the Thomson-Walker collection at The Centre for Research Collections conservation …Continue reading →

Our most viewed images of 2014: numbers 5-1 Following on from yesterday’s publication of numbers 10-6, the top five most viewed images from images.is.ed.ac.uk 2014 can now be revealed! No.5: Khush khati (calligraphy), 17th / 18th century From …Continue reading →

Our most viewed images of 2014: Numbers 10 – 6 TAGS: collections | CRC | DIU The counting is complete and we can now exclusively reveal the top ten most viewed images in our online database for 2014. Numbers 10 – 6 are displayed below – …Continue reading →