Data Carpentry Workshop, Spring 2018 Following on from the success of previous Carpentry workshops we have hosted, the Research Data Support team organised another two day Data Carpentry workshop on 12th /13th June 2018 in …Continue reading →

Scotland’s Languages: Changes and reasons Here is the last in our series of posts on Scotland’s languages. This time we look more closely at why there were changes in the languages spoken in Scotland. As …Continue reading →

A Prized Collection We were recently rather excited to receive a significant accrual to an existing donation of records from Scottish Gymnastics. This includes over 100 books (some of them rare and inscribed), …Continue reading →

Marking up collections sites with Schema.org This blog was written by Holly Coulson, who is working with Nandini Tyagi  on this project. For the last three months, I have been undergoing a Library Metadata internship with …Continue reading →

Scotland’s languages: Pronunciation and purity In the last post we looked at predominantly Gaelic, Scots and English speaking parishes. But, it is important to note that the other minority languages have impacted on whatever the …Continue reading →

Scotland’s languages: Gaelic, Scots and English This is the second post on Scotland’s languages. This time we look more closely at the languages spoken throughout the parishes. As can be gleaned in the last blog post, …Continue reading →

IIIF Conference, Washington, May 2018 TAGS: Archives | collections | Conferences | Development | IIIF | LUNA | Museums We (Joe Marshall (Head of Special Collections) and Scott Renton (Library Digital Development)) visited Washington DC for the IIIF Conference from 21st-25th May. This was a great opportunity for L&UC, …Continue reading →

Scotland’s languages: Etymology What are the languages of Scotland? There are three official languages: English, which is the main language spoken, then the minority languages Scots, which is spoken by roughly 30% of …Continue reading →

e-Marefa Arabic databases for trial E-Marefa is an integrated database of full-text academic journals, statistics, articles, dissertations, e-books, book reviews, conference proceedings and abstracts about the Arabic World. The database is produced by Knowledge World …Continue reading →

Margaret Morris and “La Divine” Suzanne Lenglen (1899-1938) Today marks the birthday of the tennis star Suzanne Lenglen, who was born in Paris in 1899. Regarded by some as the greatest female tennis player in history, Lenglen won 31 …Continue reading →