Ministry and medicine TAGS: Divinity | Dumfries Presbytery Library | Funk | Incunabula | New College Library | seventeenth-century Today we’re welcoming a group from the EAHIL + ICAHIS + ICLC 2015 Workshop to New College Library. The Workshop is a collaboration between the European Association for Health Information …Continue reading →

Christ or Confucius, Which? TAGS: China | Divinity | New College Library | World Christianity Christ or Confucius, Which? is just one of the book titles now on display in New College Library, in honour of the conference being held on James Legge and Scottish …Continue reading →

A Visit from Dolly… TAGS: cloning | dolly the sheep | Exhibition | roslin institute It has been a while since my last post, but rest assured, the ‘Towards Dolly’ project has not been idle! As you’ll have seen from the last couple of posts, …Continue reading →

New digital resources for Puritan thought TAGS: Divinity | history | online | seventeenth-century I’m pleased to report that we now have access to digital collections from Oxford Scholarly Editions, including the seventeenth-century prose collection. This contains several titles of interest to researchers in Puritan …Continue reading →

Old Books, New Discoveries: The Tale of a Feather TAGS: Dutch | manuscript | medieval | music | rare books Our blog post today comes from History of the Book student and CRC volunteer Allie Newman. The University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections (CRC) is home to over 300 …Continue reading →

LibraryLabs Pop Up at Central TAGS: crowdsourcing | game | LibraryLabs | LibraryPop | metadata | pop up library Following on from the success of our Pop Up Library Metadata Games sessions during Innovative Learning Week, this week we took Metadata Games to the City of Edinburgh Council’s Central Library, …Continue reading →

Digitisation of the Roslin Glass Slide Collection; complete! That’s me signing out, 3460 glass plate slides later. It is hard to know where to start. Lots of images of cows, pigs, horses and sheep! I now have the …Continue reading →

‘Innovation’: the Emperor’s new clothes? TAGS: crowdsourcing | gamification | images | Museums | technology Scott and I travelled down to Cambridge last week to speak at the Museum Computer Group’s Spring Meeting, ‘Innovation’: the Emperor’s new clothes? It was a very informative day that …Continue reading →

John Knox and the Scottish Reformed Kirk TAGS: Church of Scotland | Divinity | New College Library | Psalms | rare books | sixteenth-century At 4pm today, Tuesday 19 May, in the Assembly Hall, Prof Jane Dawson will address the General Assembly on the topic of John Knox, following publication of her recent biography. Prof. Dawson’s …Continue reading →

Where Did Fairbairn get his books? TAGS: Books | circulating libraries | medical libraries | Psychoanalysis | reading It has often been commented that Fairbairn, in Edinburgh, was working a long way from the main centres of development in psychoanalysis. This must have made keeping abreast of the …Continue reading →