‘Emma Gillies: Rediscovered’ – Ceramics Exhibition at the Main Library TAGS: art | Art Collection | Edinburgh College of Art | Exhibitions Emma Smith, Exhibitions Officer, writes about the 2014 winter exhibition at the University of Edinburgh Main Library Over the last two years, significant research has been carried out into the …Continue reading →

A Picture of Health TAGS: health | history of medicine | hospitals | photography On Thursday 30th October from 10am, Louise and Clair from Lothian Health Services Archive (LHSA) will be on the Library Pop desk on the first floor of the Main Library. …Continue reading →

For the love of Gaelic (and everything else Scottish). TAGS: ethnology | Gaelic | pop up library | School of Scottish Studies Archives | Scottish Studies The School of Scottish Studies Archives holds: over 30,000 sound recordings 320 film / video items over 50,000 images manuscript collections As part of the University’s Gaelic Week programme of …Continue reading →

HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco ‘meets’ his great-great-grandfather, Prince Albert I TAGS: 'Princesse Alice' | Herbert Mather Spoor (1872-1917) | Honorary LLD | Prince Albert I of Monaco | Princess Grace of Monaco (1929-1982) | Scottish National Antarctic Expedition | Senatus Academicus | Spitsbergen | The Student | William Speirs Bruce (1867-1921) Today, His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco visited the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI), and met the Director of ECCI and staff from the School of Geosciences at …Continue reading →

Meet the Collections Managers TAGS: Course reading | Library Resources Plus | pop up library Hannah and I can’t wait to meet some of our users tomorrow, when we do our Pop Up Library session on the 1st floor of the Main Library. We will …Continue reading →

Rare Books De-mystified TAGS: pop up library | rare books If you have ever fancied using old or rare books as the basis of a project, or come upon the location “Main Library – Special Collections” in the catalogue, for …Continue reading →

Exhibitions site now live! Development on our collections continues apace! Following on from the successful launch of collections.ed.ac.uk, we’re delighted to announce https://exhibitions.ed.ac.uk, which showcases displayed items from our current, and past, exhibitions. Building …Continue reading →

Decanting We are now well in to the decanting process and some of our much loved loans of works of art have gone back to their owners.        The clock, …Continue reading →

Art images online We are pleased to announce 253 more high resolution images for the University’s Art Collection, available on LUNA, and through the collections.ed.ac.uk portal. These were taken by ECA photographer Thomas …Continue reading →

Cataloguing the HIV/Aids Collections held in LHSA Our story begins in 2011, when the HIV/AIDS epidemic related records held by Lothian Health Services Archive were awarded an inscription on the UNESCO UK Memory of the World Register …Continue reading →