A knot better! TAGS: conservation | Intern | musical instrument I am writing this on the very last day of my work placement here at the University of Edinburgh. I have had an amazing six weeks learning about caring for …Continue reading →

Fairbairn Archive Mystery Item of the Month TAGS: Archives | poetry | Psychoanalysis | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn One of the elements of archival work I have always enjoyed is the opportunity to get to know a collection really intimately. In order to generate intelligible finding aids for researchers, …Continue reading →

Unwrapping the Martin Hall Collection TAGS: Biblical Studies | Divinity | Funk | medieval | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century This January we began cataloguing work on the MR Collection from New College Library’s Special Collections. This sequence contains much early and rare material, and carries the shelfmark MR because at …Continue reading →

Saying Goodbye to Dr. Coffin TAGS: conservation | Intern | Thomson-Walker This week, we say farewell to our conservation intern, Samantha. To mark the end of her 10-week internship working on the Thomson-Walker collection, we put some questions to Samantha to …Continue reading →

William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: an archivist’s perspective TAGS: Archives | Psychoanalysis | Wellcome Trust | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn The papers of Edinburgh-based psychoanalyst, William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn (more usually known simply as Ronald) are held here, in the National Library of Scotland. I’m Karla, an archivist, and since January 2015 …Continue reading →

Rediscover: The Torrie Collection TAGS: Art Collection | Exhibition | History of Art | Postgraduates | Torrie collection Rediscover is a new initiative that allows postgraduate students of History of Art to put their original research and knowledge into practice through three displays in Talbot Rice Gallery over …Continue reading →

Science on a Plate: an evolution I have been based in the Digital Imaging Unit, digitising the Roslin Glass Plate Slide Collection, since October last year as part of the ‘Science on a Plate’ project, funded by …Continue reading →

New Open Access Journal of Undergraduate Research TAGS: journal hosting service | Library as publisher | OJS | open access | publishing The first issue of a new open access journal dedicated to undergraduate research in the area of sociolinguistic variation has been published on the library-supported journal hosting service. The journal, …Continue reading →

Europeana Tech Conference, Paris, Feb 2015 TAGS: Europeana | LibraryLabs | metadata The Europeana Tech conference took place in Paris on February 12-13, 2015. A fascinating event, developers and strategists from institutions all over Europe got the chance to exchange ideas about …Continue reading →

Clean up your sax TAGS: Archives | conservation I am a Preventive Conservation Masters student at Northumbria University, and as part of my course, I am fortunate to be able to put theory into practice for six weeks …Continue reading →