Top 5 library resources for Social Work TAGS: Books | databases | e-books | e-journals | media | Newspapers | Social Work Today is #WorldSocialWorkDay! We thought we’d give you a taster of social work resources available to students and staff here at the University of Edinburgh Library. 1. Have you seen Social …Continue reading →

American discovery in Special Collections This is the first book to describe and depict native American costume, culture and society for European readers.  It was published in 1590 by the enterprising merchant Theodor de Bry, who identified a market for illustrated …Continue reading →

Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology now on trial TAGS: Divinity | Hymnology | online New on trial for University of Edinburgh users from 3 March to 31 March is the  Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology is the replacement for the Dictionary of Hymnology produced …Continue reading →

New books for Social and Political Science: February 2015 TAGS: African Studies | Books | e-books | International Relations | Politics | 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 →

Trial access to The Encyclopedia of Political Thought TAGS: e-books | online resources | Politics | Social & Political Sciences The Library has set up trial access to the online version of The Encyclopedia of Political Thought. You can access this via the E-resources trials page at www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-trials The Encyclopedia of Political …Continue reading →

Win £50 book token! TAGS: competition | Library Discovery This summer the Library is launching a new Discovery service which will combine the functionality of the Library Catalogue and Searcher into one single search tool that will help you …Continue reading →

Trial – ACLS Humanities E-Book package TAGS: African | American | Asian | Australasian/Oceanian | Byzantine | Canadian | Caribbean | Central European | Comparative/World | e-books | Eastern European/Russian | Economic | Environmental | European | Humanities E-Book | Jewish Studies | Latin American | Law | LGBT/Queer Studies | Medicine | Methods/Theory | middle east | Native Peoples of the Americas | Science/Technology | Womens' Studies We have trial access to ACLS Humanities E-Book package until the 5th April. This electronic resource includes 4,315 full-text, cross-searchable books in the humanities selected by scholars for their continuing …Continue reading →

Tackling a Library time capsule : The Longforgan Free Church Ministers Library TAGS: Divinity | eighteenth-century | Free Church of Scotland | Funk | Longforgan | New College Library | nineteenth-century | rare books | Roman | seventeenth-century Regular visitors to New College Library have probably walked past the Longforgan Free Church Ministers Library many times. It sits in custom made glazed bookcases, which are sited on the …Continue reading →

Trial – Cambridge Archive Editions Online TAGS: Cambridge Archive Editions Online | Cambridge University Press | Caucasus | e-books | EastView | Far East | history | middle east | Russia and the Balkans | Southeast Asia We have trial access to Cambridge Archive Editions Online until the 20th February. Cambridge Archive Editions Online is an extensive collection of historical archive materials on the modern political development …Continue reading →

New books at New College Library – January TAGS: anthropology | Books | Divinity | New College Library | Religious Studies An anthropological theme to our featured new books this month. The invention of God in indigenous societies / by James L. Cox. is now available in the Reserve section BL380 Cox. at New …Continue reading →