Postgraduate Arts journal launches on hosting service TAGS: Forum | Library Learning Services | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems FORUM, University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts officially launched on Friday 6th December 2013 to coincide with the publication of their seventeenth issue, Rites & Rituals. …Continue reading →

LibQual iPad mini winners Congratulations to Robin Cathcart and Christina Mackie who won the two iPad minis we offered as prizes for completing the recent LibQual+ survey. Receiving her iPad mini, Robin thanked the …Continue reading →

Divinity Student Recommendations now available TAGS: Books | Divinity | New College Library | students Divinity students have been active in recommending new books for the library, some of which are being made available as e-books. Here’s just two of the titles they recommended. New this month …Continue reading →

Hymnology Collections : Ravenscroft’s Book of Psalms TAGS: Divinity | Funk | hymns | music | New College Library | nineteenth-century A guest post from Oreste de Tommasso, one of the Funk Project Cataloguers at New College Library. This item, an edition of the Whole Book of Psalmes, was recently catalogued as …Continue reading →

Twentieth Century Religious Thought now on trial TAGS: Divinity | online | Theology & Ethics Twentieth Century Religious Thought, published by Alexander St Press, is now on trial until 19 December. University of Edinburgh users can access the database at http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-trials.Twentieth Century Religious Thought is a …Continue reading →

Chinese rare books on display for Peking University at Edinburgh Day TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | China | Chinese | Divinity | New College Library | World Christianity New College Library was part of the University of Edinburgh’s Peking at Edinburgh day on Monday 18 November with a display of Chinese items from our Special Collections. These included the beautiful …Continue reading →

In the beginning was the word : Bibles at New College Library TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Divinity | Funk | New College Library | rare books | Reformation | sixteenth-century Yesterday we were pleased to welcome staff and students on exchange from Dartmouth College, USA to a classroom session viewing items from New College Library’s historic Bibles collection. Examples included a …Continue reading →

Ancient Language Encyclopedias from Brill now on trial TAGS: Biblical Studies | Divinity | greek | Hebrew | linguistics | online | University of Edinburgh Trial access is now available to the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Online, and the Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, published by Brill.Access is via the eresources trials …Continue reading →

New books at New College Library – November TAGS: anthropology | Books | Buddhism | Hinduism | New College Library | Religious Studies New College Library has a regular display of new books at the far end of the Library Hall, close to the door to the stacks. New this month is The anthropology …Continue reading →