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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Colophon and Logotype TAGS: collections | colophon | Library | logotype | rare books Having a background in Fine Art through study at Glasgow School of Art I am very aware of the striking visual content that passes through the Digital Imaging Unit on …Continue reading →

It’s Not All Books… As photographers for the Special Collections in the University of Edinburgh Main Library, we’ve seen a fair amount of beautiful books and manuscripts, but the diversity of the collections, both …Continue reading →

New Images & New Collection Publically Available Last week we were very pleased to make 864 new images available to the public. In the DIU we had recently completed a batch of nearly 1000 high quality images …Continue reading →

Volunteer work at the Digital Imaging Unit TAGS: Adamson | Hill | photography The Centre for Research Collections is a remarkable resource for students at Edinburgh University, not only for research purposes, but also for experience working with collections.  I am an MSc …Continue reading →

Beasties I’ve seen a startling number of beasties hiding out in our Collections over the years, and the time has come to celebrate them! From the delightful details in the margins …Continue reading →