Science during Wartime TAGS: campus | science | students | Untold stories We have a more detailed analysis of the University’s response to the experience and aftermath of WW1 to come later on.  This article looks instead highlights a few of the …Continue reading →

E-Resources Access Alert – EZProxy downtime TAGS: Access alert | e-resources downtime | ezproxy Access to E-Resources using EZProxy will be unavailable on Tuesday 9th June between 8.30am and 9.30am followed by a further 1 hour at risk period.  This is to allow our …Continue reading →

Rare Mass for the Dead from the MH Collection TAGS: Catholic | Funk | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century A guest post from Paul Nicholas, Funk Projects Cataloguer We were delighted this week to discover a rare Mass for the Dead in the MH Collection at New College Library. …Continue reading →

LibraryLabs Pop Up at Central TAGS: crowdsourcing | game | LibraryLabs | LibraryPop | metadata | pop up library Following on from the success of our Pop Up Library Metadata Games sessions during Innovative Learning Week, this week we took Metadata Games to the City of Edinburgh Council’s Central Library, …Continue reading →

‘Innovation’: the Emperor’s new clothes? TAGS: crowdsourcing | gamification | images | Museums | technology Scott and I travelled down to Cambridge last week to speak at the Museum Computer Group’s Spring Meeting, ‘Innovation’: the Emperor’s new clothes? It was a very informative day that …Continue reading →

JSTOR – additional content now available TAGS: archive | Arts & Sciences | backfiles | e-journals | JSTOR We now subscribe to JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIII and Arts & Sciences XIV packages. The Arts & Sciences XIII Collection adds an increasingly international set of journals in disciplines …Continue reading →

Where Did Fairbairn get his books? TAGS: Books | circulating libraries | medical libraries | Psychoanalysis | reading It has often been commented that Fairbairn, in Edinburgh, was working a long way from the main centres of development in psychoanalysis. This must have made keeping abreast of the …Continue reading →

Edinburgh University Union Committee, 1899 TAGS: alumni | staff We recently acquired this photograph.  It shows the committee which had responsibility for running the University Union, one comprised of both staff and students. We have researched each of the …Continue reading →

Trials – new e-resources on trial TAGS: Anatomy | database | Japan Times | newspaper | Ovid | Visible Body We have trial access to The Japan Times Online until 31st May. Japan Times Online is the oldest English-language newspaper in Japan, founded in March 1897 (Meiji 30). It has …Continue reading →

Fairbairn as Student TAGS: Archives | University of Edinburgh | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn In the academic year 1907/8, the 17 year old WRD Fairbairn matriculated to study in the Arts Faculty at the University of Edinburgh.  This followed 11 years schooling at Merchiston …Continue reading →