Dinosaur Hackfest Whilst at the Open Repositories conference Kim and I were invited by Peter Sefton, University of Western Sydney, to a hackfest* to be held at the Informatics Forum the following …Continue reading →

Conserving Laing III In April this year, I was lucky enough to be offered a 10 week internship to begin conservation work on the David Laing Bequest of rare books. This internship was …Continue reading →

New Zealand Special Collections The New Zealand House Special Collection has now been fully catalogued by our Cataloguing Interns. It contains over 200 fascinating and rare items, dating from 1773 onwards.  These books come …Continue reading →

Godfrey and Hector Thomson TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | Childhood Photographs | CRC | Edinburgh university Library Special Collecions | Fathers Day | Godfrey Thomson | Hector Thomson | Intelligence | personal papers | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson (Coll-1310/1/2/2 Family Photographs) With father’s day coming up this weekend, I thought it would be interesting to blog about the father/son relationship between Godfrey and Hector Thomson. When Hector was …Continue reading →

A secret agent exposed… TAGS: 007 | BigTam | Edinburgh College of Art | Sean Connery As I am told by every taxi driver who ever gives me a lift home, Edinburgh’s Fountainbridge area is famous for being the childhood home of Sean Connery. But, you …Continue reading →

The Blue Blanket Each week the Centre for Research Collections receives two deliveries of Special Collection items from the library annexe. Usually these items go back to the annexe when the reader is …Continue reading →

My first week as an intern and how it led to the destruction of a city Jamie started as an intern at the Centre for Research Collections last week, here he tells us about his first few days. I have just finished my first of eight …Continue reading →

Employ.Ed Hidden Collections Intern – Week 1 TAGS: Annexe | Careers | Hidden | Intern | Projects The Library Annexe will be joined for the next 8 weeks by Nik Slavov, who is working for the University as part of the Employ.Ed on Campus summer internship programme, …Continue reading →

Science: Media Friendly? TAGS: BBC | broadcast | debate | dolly the sheep | greenwood | media | press | public engagement | radio | scientists | social impact | television | waddington Nowadays we are more than accustomed to scientists appearing on television and radio to talk about their research or engage in debates about the social, political and ethical implications of …Continue reading →

Collections.ed.ac.uk Launched This week, we launched a new service called Collections.ed.ac.uk, which you (staff, students and the wider public) can use to search the University’s rare and unique collections. Four collections are …Continue reading →