Darwin cataloguing project completed Today we have finished the cataloguing of our Darwin collection.  Almost last to be done was one of the nicest finds – offprints of two of Darwin’s early articles, on …Continue reading →

Oatmeal and peppermint In March 2014 our main exhibition will feature items purchased for the collections with the help of the Friends of Edinburgh University Library.  Our intern has been looking at possible exhibits …Continue reading →

The Model at ECA TAGS: Collaboration | ECA | Exhibition | The Model It’s all go at Edinburgh College of Art at the moment for the opening of The Model exhibition, featuring items from Geology, Anatomy, and Dick Vet, alongside work by ECA …Continue reading →

Wallace on War: WWI Images in the Roslin Glass Slides Collection TAGS: animals in war | political cartoons | WWI In a previous post, I wrote about Professor Robert Wallace, (1853 – 1939), who taught Scientific Agriculture and Rural Economy at the University of Edinburgh and how many of the glass …Continue reading →

1906 female medical graduates One of our earliest group photographs of female medical graduates depicts the MBChB class of 1906.  It shows 13 women and bears their signatures. Alice Meredith BURN, New Zealand Agnes …Continue reading →

500 years of Gavin Douglas CRC is celebrating the 500th anniversary of the first translation of Virgil’s Aeneid into Scots, by the Edinburgh poet Gavin Douglas. Gavin Douglas completed his Eneados, a translation of Virgil’s …Continue reading →

Object Handling at the National Museum of Scotland TAGS: Knowledge Exchange | NMS | Object Handling | Training As part of our continuous personal and professional development, we’re encouraged to attend as many training workshops as we can. Luckily for us, National Museums Scotland run a fantastic (and …Continue reading →

Kirsty Bailey – October 2013 Norman Dott Project Volunteer From March 2013 I have been volunteering on the Norman Dott project, cataloguing patient case notes using Encoded Archival Description (EAD) …Continue reading →

Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth: Collections Connections TAGS: Archives | art | Barbara Hepworth | Ben Nicholson | Edinburgh College of Art | Letters | Venice Biennale We’ve mentioned before how we work across the collections to tell the stories about the life, times and doings at ECA. So we thought we’d show you some of the …Continue reading →

New Book Display: Black History Month TAGS: Black history | Black History Month | history; Main Library | new books During  October, the Main Library have been displaying books which have been donated to the Library by the University’s African Caribbean Society (in association with EUSA Global). There are approximately …Continue reading →