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 →

Dolly Pops Up… TAGS: dolly the sheep | Towards Dolly Did you know that Edinburgh has been a world leader in genetics for over a century? And that there’s definitely more to cloning than just Dolly the sheep? Come to …Continue reading →

Library burnt to the ground! The Student, 25/10/84 TAGS: 1984 | The Student In this week’s digitised edition of The Student 1984: The Main Library (almost) burns to the ground The Campaign for Real Lager provides a guide to the best fizzy stuff …Continue reading →

Web of Science – New KCI Korean Journal Database TAGS: Arts & Humanities | Business Economics | databases | Engineering | General Internal Medicine | history | Public Administration | Science Technology | Sports Sciences Following last week’s upgrade to Web of Science, we now have access to the New KCI Korean Journal Database. The KCI Korean Journal Database is a searchable repository of literature …Continue reading →

Get the Best from the Library Week for SPS TAGS: academic support librarian | African Studies | Canadian Studies | International Relations | Politics | Social & Political Sciences | social policy | Social Work | Sociology | South Asian Studies 27th-31st October Drop-in sessions on the 1st floor at Pop-up Library Get the Best from the Library Week is all about helping you find out more about how the Library can …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 →

Coming soon … Get the Best from the Library Week 27-31October 2014 TAGS: Library Academic Support Team The Library Academic Support Team are running Get the Best from the Library Week between 27-31 October. Get the Best from the Library Week is all about helping you find …Continue reading →

Discover Gaelic Special Collections from New College Library TAGS: Gaelic | New College Library | rare books | Special Collections Did you know that over 400 items which together form the Gaelic Collections at New College Library have recently been catalogued online. This collection of monographs and pamphlets was put together from …Continue reading →

Dame Anne McLaren (1927-2007) TAGS: alan beatty | anne mclaren | fertility | in vitro | institute of animal genetics | mammalian development | reproductive biology | royal society | waddington It’s always great to receive comments and feedback from our blog readers, especially those which suggest subjects or people which we haven’t yet featured. We have a growing list of posts …Continue reading →

Win a University of Edinburgh Hoodie! At the Library pop up session this afternoon Leisa and Serena will be there to talk to you about how to get involved with library work and projects. Leisa will …Continue reading →