Fairytales & Chivalry at the Centre for Research Collections TAGS: CRC | Fairytales | rare books | Special Collections When I think of our rare book collections, I tend to think or row upon row of brown, leather bound volumes. This is true for a large part of the …Continue reading →

Music Online – new content added TAGS: Alexander Street Press | databases | music | Music & Performing Arts | Music Online Music Online has been significantly updated this week with the addition of: 4.5 million independent popular music tracks 1.4 million world music tracks 510,000 American song tracks 440,000 classical music …Continue reading →

Sport and social sciences: A Commonwealth Games inspired reading list TAGS: academic support librarian | e-books | International Relations | online resources | Politics | Sociology | sport The 2014 Commonwealth Games start today and we’ve had a look through the wealth of e-books currently available to University staff and students at the Library, to pull together just …Continue reading →

A Photo Opportunity “A picture is worth a thousand words”. As this often quoted adage alludes to, photographs have the ability to capture a moment in time. Whether they are images of stern …Continue reading →

The World History of Rashid al-Din, 1314. A Masterpiece of Islamic Painting     Iconic Persian Manuscript in New Exhibition at Main Library:  ‘The World History of Rashid al-Din, 1314. A Masterpiece of Islamic Painting’   The Centre for Research Collections and …Continue reading →

New staff member: Stuart Macdonald TAGS: New Staff | Research Data Library & University Collections has great pleasure in welcoming a new member of staff to its ranks.  We welcome Stuart Macdonald to the position of Research Data Management Service Coordinator, …Continue reading →

50 Years of Sociology at Edinburgh: Professor Tom Burns TAGS: academic support librarian | Events | Library | Resource Lists | Sociology In 1964 the Sociology department at University of Edinburgh was founded by Tom Burns. A prominent sociologist and one of the first sociologists to be elected to a Fellowship of …Continue reading →

Happy Graduation Day! TAGS: Emma Smith | graduation | Graham Dey | Sheila Fleet   Today we have lots of celebrations as a number of alumni, colleagues and friends celebrate graduations. Among them are Graham Dey who was Welfare Officer and music guru at …Continue reading →

Employ.Ed Hidden Collections Intern – Weeks 2 to 4 TAGS: Annexe | Careers | Hidden | Intern | Nelson Archive | new zealand | Polynesian Society | Projects | Thomas Nelson Halfway through the internship, so here comes another update from the Annexe. These few weeks have been a lot more eventful than I would have expected. Let me try and …Continue reading →

Cataloguing Christ’s Second Coming TAGS: Divinity | Funk | New College Library | nineteenth-century | Special Collections We’re delighted that the cataloguing of nearly 500 items held in the Shaw Collection on the Catholic Apostolic Church at New College Library, is now complete. While further research is …Continue reading →