Scottish Government Yearbooks now available online TAGS: media | online resources | Politics | Scottish referendum The Scottish Government Yearbooks, which were published by the University of Edinburgh’s ‘Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland’ between 1976 and 1992, are now freely available online for …Continue reading →

Art Collections go hi-res! The launch of the collections.ed.ac.uk public interface in May was a big success story in itself, but a bullet point below this was that it featured the first ever web …Continue reading →

Policies, Postcards and Prophylactics: Conserving Lothian Health Services Archive’s UNESCO-awarded HIV/AIDS Collections (1983-2010) My name is Emily and I am Project Conservator at Lothian Health Services Archive. LHSA is based at the Centre for Research Collections, where we share a conservation studio with …Continue reading →

Making new (3D) plans II Yesterday I blogged about our exciting plans for the display and interpretation of nearly 1000 historic musical instruments in the new St Cecilia’s Hall, including how we are able to …Continue reading →

Making new (3D) plans Although we are very much focused on our ever-closer decant from St Cecilia’s Hall, it by no means takes all of our thinking time in relation to the St Cecilia’s …Continue reading →

‘Lotte’: Charlotte Auerbach (1899-1994) TAGS: auerbach | drosophila | genetics | mosaics | muller | mustard gas | mutagenesis | mutation | neurospora Recently I have been cataloguing the various papers we have concerning Charlotte Auerbach (known as ‘Lotte’ to her friends), who passed away 20 years ago this year. Mention has already been …Continue reading →

Big Week Edinburgh has changed from being its normal – albeit busy and excited – summertime to in Festival mode. It is always a sudden change, and always very exciting. Both the …Continue reading →

Treasures of New College Library – Andrew Melville’s Bible TAGS: Bible | Divinity | New College Library | Presbyterian | Reformation | sixteenth-century One of the pleasures of being a librarian is the serendipity of discovering something special on the shelves whilst engaged in looking for something completely different. Whilst looking at materials about the Congregational …Continue reading →

Employ.Ed Hidden Collections Intern – Weeks 7 to 8 It is all over now! Or at least, very soon now. The 8 weeks flew past, my internship is nearly over and now all that is left is to take …Continue reading →

Pressing Matters TAGS: Special Collections As a conservator, you can often find some rather surprising and unexpected ephemera in archive and book collections. Take, for example, this folder from the University’s Aitken Collection. At first …Continue reading →