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 →

Month 2 project meeting TAGS: API | data library | JISC | JISC Data Spring | JISC Data Vault The Data Vault project is three months long, and is a collaboration between the universities of Edinburgh and Manchester.  Due to the short nature of the project, we have decided …Continue reading →

Data Vault storage considerations TAGS: JISC | JISC Data Spring | JISC Data Vault | metadata The Data Vault service is a system that joins up two sets of storage: fast, expensive, high quality active research storage, and slow, cheap, archival-quality long term storage.  The Data …Continue reading →

Describing and Packaging data TAGS: JISC | JISC Data Spring | JISC Data Vault | metadata The concept of the Data Vault service is to take research data that is no longer being actively used, and to archive it in long-term archival storage.  In order to …Continue reading →

Fairbairn Archive Unexpected Item of the Month TAGS: Chester Zoo | mental health | newspaper cuttings | suicide | The Scotsman | W Ronald D Fairbairn | zoology One of the great pleasures of working with archives is the propensity they have to surprise. Hidden amongst the vast records of organisations, or the more petite collections of individuals, you …Continue reading →

Bluetooth beacons at …Something Blue   Images courtesy of Stewart Cromar (@stubot) On Friday we trialled the use of Bluetooth beacons in our exhibition space, using Google Glass and the Guidigo app to provide an …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 →

Fairbairn’s Dream Drawings #1 TAGS: Archives | drawings | dream drawings | dreams | Psychoanalysis | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn The composition of the Fairbairn Archive is rich, with a wide variety of materials from manuscripts to typescripts and photographs to correspondence. However, amongst the most striking of all the documents are a collection of dream drawings, …Continue reading →

Data Vault project kickoff meeting TAGS: #DatsSpring | data vault | JISC | JISC Data Spring | Research Data Last week, members of the Data Vault project got together for the kickoff meeting.  Hosted at the University of Manchester Library, we were able to discuss the project plan, milestones …Continue reading →

William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: an archivist’s perspective TAGS: Archives | Psychoanalysis | Wellcome Trust | William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn The papers of Edinburgh-based psychoanalyst, William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn (more usually known simply as Ronald) are held here, in the National Library of Scotland. I’m Karla, an archivist, and since January 2015 …Continue reading →