Shorthand in the New College Special Collections TAGS: Archives | handwriting | Thomas Chalmers by Danielle Fox, Archive & Library Assistant, New College Library Shorthand writing, also known as tachygraphy, stenography, or brachygraphy, is a system of writing that uses symbols and abbreviations to …Continue reading →

From tablets to computer screens; digitising some of the oldest texts at the University TAGS: Biblical Studies | digitisation | New College Library | Special Collections by Elin Crotty, Archive & Library Assistant, New College Over the past few months, the two New College Archive and Library Assistants (ALAs) have been liaising with the Cultural Heritage …Continue reading →

New College Library Library is moving August / September 2023   In January 2020 the majority of New College Library General Collections were relocated to 40 George Square to provide a Library service for the duration of a major Estates …Continue reading →

New College marks its 175th Anniversary with online exhibition  TAGS: Archives | Divinity | nineteenth-century | photographs | twentieth-century   It all began with The Disruption. Not 2020’s lockdown but The Disruption of 1843 when ministers and elders left the Church of Scotland to set up the Free Church of Scotland. …Continue reading →

Reflecting on New College Library at DHT A guest post from Gina Headden, New College Library Helpdesk Team New College Library on the Mound is a grand and imposing building but like many historic locations it occasionally …Continue reading →

New College Library is moving! TAGS: Divinity | New College Library Outside the David Hume Tower A major Estates project means that we must move the New College Library collections and services. What this means for you • New College Library …Continue reading →

Judaism and Jewish Studies: the work of John ‘Rabbi’ Duncan and Adolph Saphir TAGS: 19th century | Adolph Saphir | Biblical Studies | Christianity | Church of Scotland | Hebrew | Jewish | Jewish Studies | John 'Rabbi' Duncan | John Duncan | Judaism | New College Edinburgh | New College Library | nineteenth-century New College Library holds collections of and about a number of individuals who gathered material and wrote extensively on Judaism and Jewish Studies, motivated by their interest in the conversion …Continue reading →

Library Resources for Islam and Muslim-Christian Studies: an introduction TAGS: islam | library resources | Muslim-Christian Studies | New College Library From time to time, we compile resource lists on different aspects of Theology and Religious Studies. Islam and Muslim-Christian Studies are developing areas of our collections, responding to the new …Continue reading →

1893: A story of scary librarians and brave students New College Library and its students have always had a special relationship. Recently, for example, our students chose their preferred most iconic items from our special collections and contributed to …Continue reading →

That would be an ecumenical matter … Celebrating 70 years of the World Council of Churches TAGS: Archives | Church of Scotland | ecumenism | New College Library | twentieth-century In our New College Library Hall display for September 2018, we’re celebrating the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the World Council of Churches. Inaugurated in 1948, the World Council of Churches …Continue reading →