I: Edinburgh University Battery Officers’ Training Corps – OTC TAGS: Barry Camp | Edinburgh University Battery Officers' Training Corps | Stobs Camp LIFE IN THE ARMY, AT STOBS CAMP AND ELSEWHERE… AND SOME FACES OF THE FALLEN… Edinburgh University Battery Officers’ Training Corps was one of Scotland’s oldest military volunteer Units. By …Continue reading →

Archives catalogues come online TAGS: Catalogue | Katherine Brown | online access | Rev Thomas Boston Since I started working with the New College Collections, one of my main aims has been to get the archives catalogues, which sit in a papery, five binder splendour in …Continue reading →

A Book of Two Halves Our Projects Conservator, Nicole, describes a technique for repairing books that have broken in half in this week’s blog… I have now moved full time to the conservation studio at …Continue reading →

DATA-X Pioneering Research Data Exhibition & Symposium DATA-X has been a University of Edinburgh IS Innovation Fund project, also supported by the Data Lab and ASCUS. The project provided a dynamic platform for University of Edinburgh student …Continue reading →

II: ‘The Times’ History and Encyclopaedia of the War – the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolutions 1917, and of the declaration of Finnish independence TAGS: The Times History and Encyclopædia of the War ‘…AN ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT CONTEST NOW IN PROGRESS…’ On the approach of the 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolutions, this second look at The Times History and Encyclopædia of …Continue reading →

#1lib1ref at the University of Edinburgh TAGS: #1lib1ref | ISG | wikimedia | wikipedia On Friday 20 January, staff from across Information Services took part in Wikimedia’s #1lib1ref campaign, adding 63 edits to the encyclopaedia throughout the day – almost double last year’s total! …Continue reading →

Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: May to July 2016 TAGS: Awareness raising and advocacy | DataShare | DataStore | DataVault | MOOC | News and publications | RDM services | Roadmap progress | Tagged DataShare The following key results were highlighted in the RDM Programme Progress Report: There were 42 new users and 69 data management plans created with DMPOnline. An additional 1.5PB has been …Continue reading →

Just my type of thesis: some notes on book production from 1915 The printed book as an artistic unity: A study of selected Incunabula as a Guide to the external production of worthy modern books Richard Wilson, B.A. London “The subject of …Continue reading →

Academic Book Week 2017 The Library has organised three events for Academic Book Week this year. Places are limited, so be sure to sign up soon! Academic Book Week celebrates the academic book, with …Continue reading →

IIIF is live! This week, and just scraping in before the end of the year, we upgraded the LUNA imaging platform to version 7.2. This is important to us for two reasons: the …Continue reading →