Talk, Talk Two talks in a week, one in London, one in Warsaw On Thursday last week I gave a presentation to the Association for Historical and Fine Art Photographs Conference in …Continue reading →

Connected Collections ‘Connected Collections’, Library of Innerpeffray, 29 November 2014 Last Saturday, I was at the wonderful Library of Innerpeffray, Scotland’s oldest lending library (founded ca. 1680) for ‘Connected Collections’, a workshop …Continue reading →

Back to the future : New College Library’s history today TAGS: Archives | Disruption | Divinity | New College Library | students New College Library was pleased to host a visit from the Friends of Edinburgh University Library last week. As well as looking at a selection of Special Collections and touring the Library, …Continue reading →

Royal Medical Society publishes archive & Winter 2014 issue TAGS: Library as publisher | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems | publishing | Res Medica | Royal Medical Society The Royal Medical Society has now published all the back issues of their journal, Res Medica, on the library-supported open access journal hosting platform. Res Medica started in 1957 and …Continue reading →

Autumn E-Book News TAGS: Access Engineering | American History | American University in Cairo Press | Anthem Press | Archaeology | art | astronomy | Boydell & Brewer | British History | Business & Management | Cambridge Books Online | Cambridge Histories | Cambridge Histories Online | Cambridge University Press | Classical Studies | Dawsonera | Drama and Theater | e-books | Earth and Environmental Sciences | EBL | Ebsco | Economics | Economics & Finance | Edinburgh University Press | education | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research | Engineering | English Literature | European and World Literature | European History | film | Fordham University Press | General Science | Geography | history | Hong Kong University Press | International Relations & Development | Jagiellonian University Press | Language and Linguistics | Law | Life Sciences | Liverpool University Press | Management | Manchester University Press | mass communication | Mathematical Association of America | mathematics | media | Media & Culture | MIT Press | music | MyILibrary | Oxford Handbooks | Oxford Scholarship Online | Palgrave | Philosophy | Policy Press | Political Science | Politics and international relations | psychology | religion | Religion & Philosophy | Social Sciences | Sociology | Stanford University Press | Statistics and Probability | Taylor & Francis | Theatre & Performance | University of Adelaide Press | University of California Press | University of Chicago Press | University Press of Florida | University Press of Kentucky | UPSO | Yale University Press The following have seen additions to content and have been or are in the process of being added to our catalogue. Access Engineering has seen about 30 title additions as …Continue reading →

Favourite character from a Scottish book TAGS: Annexe | Book Week Scotland | Catalogue | David Lyndsay | Grant Morrison | Library Annexe | OPAC | Scottish Book Trust | The Invisibles | University of Edinburgh | Voyage to Arcturus As part of Book Week Scotland, the Scottish Book Trust are holding a vote to discover the most loved characters in Scottish fiction. Here, the Library Annexe staff put forward …Continue reading →

Book Week Scotland – which characters did staff at the main library helpdesk vote for TAGS: Book Week Scotland | Scottish Book Trust Okay here goes……….. Maisie lives in Morningside and my girls when little, really liked the idea of this. We also had a soft toy of Maisie and they loved to …Continue reading →

Trial access to PsycINFO and PsycARTICLEs via Ebsco platform TAGS: databases | Ebsco | Ovid | PsycARTICLES | psychology | PsycINFO We have trial access to psycINFO and psycARTICLES via the Ebsco platform until the 21st December.  We currently have access to both of these databases via the Ovid platform, we …Continue reading →

Book Week Scotland 2014 TAGS: Book Week Scotland | ECA | Edinburgh College of Art | Library | Love | Scottish Book Trust | University of Edinburgh Today marks the start of Book Week Scotland; the annual celebration of books and reading, as organised by the Scottish Book Trust. Part of the activity for 2014 includes the …Continue reading →

Trial access to Chinese Electronic Periodicals Services (CEPS) and Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations Service (CETD) TAGS: Chinese Electronic Periodicals Services | Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations Service | dissertations | e-journals | Theses We have trial access to the Chinese Electronic Periodicals Services (CEPS) and Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations Service (CETD) until the 20th December. The CEPS/CETD database platform provides full-text access …Continue reading →