Asylum Art on Loan from Special Collections / LHSA These art works, from our Laycock Collection, were created by William Bartholomew at the Crichton Royal Hospital in the 1830s.  They are some of the earliest examples of art created …Continue reading →

Repository Fringe 2013 TAGS: Conferences | Development | OJS | open access | Tools Repository Fringe 2013 ran from July 31- August 2 in the Dugald Stewart Informatics Building. It was, yet again, a successful event, with around 85 attendees over the three days. …Continue reading →

New Darwin discovery This appears to be a previously-unknown collection of shells formed by Charles Darwin.  Whilst cataloguing chosen exhibits for an upcoming exhibition, myself and Gillian McCay the geology curator tipped out …Continue reading →

LUNA highlights available on Flickr TAGS: Development The CRC’s image collection is available through the LUNA image discovery tool, and can be accessed here. This is great, but there’s a need to get the collections well-publicised, through …Continue reading →

New exhibition on display on the 6th Floor of the Main Library Welcome to the Centre for Research Collections’ Display Wall where you can discover some of the hidden treasures from the many different collections we are home to. This short-term exhibition …Continue reading →