Fifty Shelves of Gray (and Nelson) TAGS: Annexe | CRC | Gowans and Gray | Nelson | Nelson Archive | New Century Library | Playbooks | Repertory Plays | Special Collections | Thomas Nelson While the cover of Fifty Shades of Grey displays a degree of restraint, publishers and consumers of the romance genre did not always have such a taste for understated dust-jackets. …Continue reading →

Centre for Research Collections – an introduction The Centre for Research Collection is the main space for anyone wanting to access Edinburgh University’s incredibly varied heritage collections, which encompass everything from archives, rare books and manuscripts, to historical …Continue reading →

Art Exposed TAGS: Art Collection | Edinburgh College of Art | fine art | Museums | Naked | Nudes | pop up library A chance to experience rarely seen paintings and objects from the University’s Art Collection Recently we learned that the most searched for term on our brand new Art Collections website was ‘Male …Continue reading →

Next week at the Pop up Library Week 1: 15th September Monday (10-12pm and 2-4pm) Library Pop Introduction – What’s it all about? Watch the 1968 Library film Tuesday AM(10-12pm): Centre for Research Collections PM (2-4pm): Learn …Continue reading →

Crime & Intrigue at the CRC TAGS: crime | fiction | Special Collections Today sees the launch of a new Hercule Poirot novel, penned by crime author Sophie Hannah with support from the Agatha Christie estate. As a die-hard Agatha Christie fan, this …Continue reading →

Aberdeen Connections #RBSCG14 TAGS: Divinity | New College Library | Pamphlets Last week I was privileged to attend the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections conference at the Sir Duncan Rice Library at Aberdeen University. I was able to take a …Continue reading →

Metadata Fun and Games TAGS: crowdsourcing | images | metadata Earlier this week we ran a 1980s-inspired crowdsourcing ‘Metadata Game’ to enhance the description of items within our online image collection http://images.is.ed.ac.uk. The good folk of Library and University Collections …Continue reading →

Anatomy & Physiology Online – new e-resource TAGS: Anatomy | Anatomy & Physiology Online | database | Physiology | Primal   Anatomy & Physiology Online (Primal Pictures) has now been added to our A-Z list and will appear on our catalogue soon.  Anatomy & Physiology Online provides 20 interactive modules …Continue reading →

Past Politics : Pamphlets from an independent Scotland TAGS: Divinity | eighteenth-century | Funk | New College Library | Pamphlets | Politics | Scotland New College Library’s Pamphlets Collection of over 30,000 items captures the issues and debates from the seventeenth century onwards. Now on display in the New College Library entrance are just a …Continue reading →

How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Archive TAGS: Archives | placement | trainee By Vanessa Johnson, conservation trainee and armchair physicist   Well, it’s been six weeks and I’ve survived! Although if archives could kill, the repository of world knowledge would go untapped …Continue reading →