Untold Stories TAGS: Arthur Graeme West | John Abel | linocuts When deciding on what to do in relation to marking the centenary of the First World War, we opted to let our collections talk. By that we mean letting stories …Continue reading →

Talk, Talk Two talks in a week, one in London, one in Warsaw On Thursday last week I gave a presentation to the Association for Historical and Fine Art Photographs Conference in …Continue reading →

Back to the future : New College Library’s history today TAGS: Archives | Disruption | Divinity | New College Library | students New College Library was pleased to host a visit from the Friends of Edinburgh University Library last week. As well as looking at a selection of Special Collections and touring the Library, …Continue reading →

Royal Medical Society publishes archive & Winter 2014 issue TAGS: Library as publisher | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems | publishing | Res Medica | Royal Medical Society The Royal Medical Society has now published all the back issues of their journal, Res Medica, on the library-supported open access journal hosting platform. Res Medica started in 1957 and …Continue reading →

Chicago, 1950, Another Look: The Erving Goffman Memorial Lecture 2014 TAGS: Books | Erving Goffman | Howard S Becker | Library | Social & Political Sciences | Sociology The Erving Goffman Memorial Lecture is being held today as part of the year-long celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Sociology department at University of Edinburgh. Today’s lecture is …Continue reading →

MCG : Museums Beyond the Web Conference TAGS: Museums | Special Collections The Natural History Museum in London was the setting for the Museum Computer Group‘s Museums Beyond The Web Conference, on November 7th. There was a certain aptness to the venue, …Continue reading →

Musical Instruments in Hi-Res MIMEd and LDD can report on a bit of workflow closure! There is now a LUNA collection up for Musical Instruments Museums at Edinburgh, which can be accessed through the …Continue reading →

The decant is complete We have finished emptying St Cecilia’s Hall after a great deal of hard work and have left the building in the extremely capable hands of our Project Manager.  Now the …Continue reading →

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi: Man + Machine TAGS: Edinburgh | Edinburgh College of Art | Maquettes | Paolozzi | Sculpture The Centre for Research Collections is showcasing a selection of maquettes from Paolozzi’s major bequest to the University’s Informatics Forum. A founder of the Pop Art movement, sculptor Sir Eduardo …Continue reading →

Written in blood This letter means what it says – “This is written in the blood of William Burke, who was hanged at Edinburgh on 28th of January 1829”.  The blood was “taken …Continue reading →