Fire and Brimstone This week we have been working on some Religious pamphlets for the English Short Title Catalogue. These have come from both the New College Library and here at the Centre …Continue reading →

Baldwin Brown Images of Old Edinburgh The Digital Imaging Unit have another five images from the Baldwin Brown glass plate negatives of Old Edinburgh recently digitized by the DIU. One of the images has an intriguing …Continue reading →

Pretty Things! Yesterday was one of those days that remind me why I love my job. We have been searching out images for use in calendars, cards and prints, and Assistant Rare …Continue reading →

Networks Nuremberg & Tracing Early Dürer This week, our post comes from Volunteer Jessica Macaulay and is about some of the exciting finds she has discovered while working on enriching the metadata in our Image Collection …Continue reading →

New Baldwin Brown Images of Old Edinburgh. As promised here are five more images of Old Edinburgh to test your memory! We first posted some images of Old Edinburgh a few weeks ago and got some great …Continue reading →

Edinburgh 300 : Cradle of Chemistry Images from the of Cradle of Chemistry which opened at University of Edinburgh Library on Thursday. The exhibition runs until 02/11/2013.

Baldwin Brown Images of Old Edinburgh Recently in the DIU we have been digitizing 21 negatives of images described on their box Shelf-mark – E2005.1 Box 5, as ” Old Edinburgh.” We are aware that some …Continue reading →

New Book in LUNA Book Reader Last month we digitised the fantastic Recueil de Desseins Ridicules, 1695 by George Focus (shelfmark SRD.1.2) for an order, but were so fascinated by the images that we thought it …Continue reading →

The Centre for Research Collections has launched a competition online using DIU Images! The Centre for Research Collections is trying to find one image from the vast and immensely diverse Collections to stand out and proudly represent it. Some of the highlights captured …Continue reading →

11th Century Manuscript Digitisation Complete Hello & welcome to our very first Post! It seems appropriate to kick off this blog with the exciting news that we have just completed the digitisation of one of …Continue reading →