New donation of Scottish poetry Tessa Ransford, poet activist and founder of the Scottish Poetry Library, has gifted to the University of Edinburgh her personal collection of poetry pamphlets. This is a major new acquisition …Continue reading →

It’s Bound to be a Pamphlet TAGS: Archives | conservation | Pamphlets | treatment As part of my ongoing conservation treatment plan, I have been asked to address the needs of the Special Collections popular and regularly consulted pamphlet series. We are all used …Continue reading →

Katie Paterson – Future Library TAGS: Collaboration | ECA Neil Lebeter, Art Curator, writes about how a forest in Norway and a new library collection in 2114 are linked We are very, very excited to announce that the University …Continue reading →

Can RAB help you get the book you need? TAGS: Books | e-books | inter-library loans | new | Request A Book | request services | Social & Political Sciences Library doesn’t have a book that you want? Did you know as a student at the University you can request the Library buys books for its collections via the RAB …Continue reading →

A gutsy project: A heart to heart with the new girl If you didn’t guess from the anatomical pun title, this blog post details the beginnings of my 10-week internship conserving the Thomson-Walker collection at The Centre for Research Collections conservation …Continue reading →

New books for Social and Political Science: December 2014 TAGS: Books | e-books | International Relations | new | Social & Political Sciences | social anthropology | social policy | Social Work | Sociology Thanks to recommendations from members of staff and requests via RAB from students the Library is continually adding new books to its collections both online and in print. Here are just a small number …Continue reading →

Our most viewed images of 2014: numbers 5-1 Following on from yesterday’s publication of numbers 10-6, the top five most viewed images from images.is.ed.ac.uk 2014 can now be revealed! No.5: Khush khati (calligraphy), 17th / 18th century From …Continue reading →

Our most viewed images of 2014: Numbers 10 – 6 TAGS: collections | CRC | DIU The counting is complete and we can now exclusively reveal the top ten most viewed images in our online database for 2014. Numbers 10 – 6 are displayed below – …Continue reading →

Mathematics at the CRC TAGS: CRC | geometry | Laing | mathematics Whilst preparing an introductory presentation for History of Science UG students, I came across this fascinating handwritten volume on geometry. It looks quite unassuming from the outside, but inside are the …Continue reading →

Thing of the Month TAGS: ECA | Edinburgh University Art Collection | lecture | Picasso Starting next week is our new event at ECA: Thing of the Month. Head over to E12 on your lunch break to get a close up look at a thing from the Art …Continue reading →