Sustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles TAGS: book conservation | book cradles | book display | book mount | Centre for Research Collections | conservation | display | environmental sustainability | Exhibition | installation | mounting | panoramas | rare books | SirCharlesLyell | Sustainability | technician | University of Edinburgh In this post, our Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses the recyclable book cradles she has developed as part of the conservation team’s ongoing work to make exhibitions at the University of …Continue reading →

The Art of Asking: Requesting Loans for Exhibition TAGS: Collections Management | collections registrar | Loans By Morven Rodger, Collections Registrar, Heritage Collections As the Collections Registrar, one of my core responsibilities is coordinating loans from the University’s Heritage Collections to external exhibitions. Whenever an item …Continue reading →

Assessing books for exhibition TAGS: assessing books | Exhibition | Leventis Foundation This week Special Collections Conservator Anna O’Regan talks us through her experience of learning new skills and how they were applied to conserving a group of books for an upcoming …Continue reading →

Planning for Humanity: Patrick Geddes in India, 1914-1924 This October we celebrate the 165th anniversary of Patrick Geddes’ birth (2 October 1854).  We bring you news of a series of upcoming events which commemorate Patrick Geddes and his …Continue reading →

New exhibition showcases unique items from the University’s Anatomical Museum The Visual Dissection – The Art of Anatomy exhibition in the Main Library will give visitors an extremely rare opportunity to see a range of collections from the University’s Anatomical …Continue reading →

Arthur Holmes: The most famous British geologist you have never heard of TAGS: Exhibitions Geology Geosciences Gillian McCay, co-curator of the School of GeoSciences Cockburn Museum collection, writes about geologist Arthur Holmes, the subject of a micro exhibition in the University Main Library Sunday September 20th …Continue reading →

Sheep Showcase TAGS: Annexe | CRC | Dolly | Fringe | genetics | Sheep | Special Collections | Towards Dolly | University of Edinburgh Have you ever met Jordan, the Library Cat? What if there was another furry animal in the Library, maybe not as alive, but nonetheless as interesting? The Main Library’s newest …Continue reading →

Bluetooth beacons at …Something Blue   Images courtesy of Stewart Cromar (@stubot) On Friday we trialled the use of Bluetooth beacons in our exhibition space, using Google Glass and the Guidigo app to provide an …Continue reading →

Rediscover: The Torrie Collection TAGS: Art Collection | Exhibition | History of Art | Postgraduates | Torrie collection Rediscover is a new initiative that allows postgraduate students of History of Art to put their original research and knowledge into practice through three displays in Talbot Rice Gallery over …Continue reading →

Thomas Nelson Exhibition: Covers in Colour TAGS: Annexe | CRC | Exhibition | Library Annexe | Nelson | Nelson Archive | Repertory Plays | Thomas Nelson The new exhibition in the CRC showcases a number of items from the Thomas Nelson Archive, which has been written about on this blog more than once in the past. …Continue reading →