1,000 Science and Engineering PhD theses added to ERA TAGS: digitisation | ERA | kb | theses. thesis In the Library’s largest ever one-off digitisation project, L&UC have been working with RedRock, a scanning company and member of the supported business framework, to digitise and make available on-line …Continue reading →

The Music of Archives For the past few years, we have had one of our volunteers, Fiona Donaldson, working with Deputy University Archivist, Grant Buttars, to develop a usable catalogue to our Tovey Collection, …Continue reading →

Project makeover TAGS: JISC | JISC Data Vault Now that the Data Vault project has received second round finding, we thought it was time for a makeover! We’ve been working hard with our designers, and now have a …Continue reading →

Data Vault receives round 2 funding! TAGS: JISC | JISC Data Vault We’re pleased to announce that following the second round of project pitching in London on the 13th and 14th of July, the Data Vault project has been awarded further funding. …Continue reading →

Second General Military Hospital, Craigleith TAGS: Archives | CRC | Untold stories | WW1 In this edition of Untold Stories, Louise (Archivist at Lothian Health Services Archive) looks at the history of one of the many military hospitals in our region: During the current …Continue reading →

Dolly on Display TAGS: Exhibition | Festival | Fringe | Towards Dolly

Last day TAGS: Fairbairn Archive | Fairbairn project | Ronald Fairbairn | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn Today is my final day working with the William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn Archive, as my six-month, Wellcome Trust funded post comes to an end. The main aim of my post …Continue reading →

Fairbairn’s Dream Drawings #2 TAGS: Archives | drawings | dream drawings | dreams | Psychoanalysis | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn A recent post on this blog, Fairbairn’s Dream Drawings #1, explored the subject of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn’s dream drawings, which date from the 1950s. The focus of that first post were Fairbairn’s drawings …Continue reading →

A Visit from Dolly… TAGS: cloning | dolly the sheep | Exhibition | roslin institute It has been a while since my last post, but rest assured, the ‘Towards Dolly’ project has not been idle! As you’ll have seen from the last couple of posts, …Continue reading →

Digitisation of the Roslin Glass Slide Collection; complete! That’s me signing out, 3460 glass plate slides later. It is hard to know where to start. Lots of images of cows, pigs, horses and sheep! I now have the …Continue reading →