Breaking Boundaries – videos now online TAGS: #RDMRMA A few months ago we hosted the ‘Breaking Boundaries‘ event, examining the subject of research data through the eyes of the archives, records management, and research data management communities. If …Continue reading →

Students PC’s Deep Clean Please note PC’s and Key Boards within the Ground, 1st and 2nd Floors will undergo a deep clean from Monday 15th August. The contractors  will start from the 2nd floor …Continue reading →

Main Library Summer Improvements 2016 – Update 9th August  Work is continuing in the Main Library on a programme of works to bring significant improvements for library users through increasing the number of study spaces by 350 and providing …Continue reading →

What The Copibook Saw TAGS: 1850's | 1910's | 1960's | Copibook | digitisation | Edinburgh | PhD | time-lapse | youtube

Main Library Summer Improvements 2016 – Update 3/8/2016   Work is continuing in the Main Library on a programme of works to bring significant improvements for library users through increasing the number of study spaces by 350 and …Continue reading →

Godfrey Thomson: the man who tested Scotland’s IQ TAGS: education | Godfrey Thomson This absolutely splendid and superbly mounted exhibition on the life, work and legacy of educational researcher, Professor Godfrey Thomson (1881-1955), has just opened in the Exhibition Hall of the University’s Main Library in George Square. …Continue reading →

“Sorry, Foakes Jackson, I am for real”* TAGS: Archives | cataloguing | Judaism | railway history | research | William Fulton Jackson Our colleague, Patrick Murray, has begun work cataloguing the W. F. Jackson collection, initially, as part of the Funk Cataloguing Project. This collection has been at New College for many …Continue reading →

First batch of digitised theses available on ERA! TAGS: ERA | first upload | Theses We are pleased to announce that the first batch of approximately 80 PhD theses is now available online through ERA, our online institutional repository! https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/15956 The theses have initially been …Continue reading →

Student Placement – Joey Shuker Joey Shuker, conservation placement student from Camberwell College of Art describes her experience of working at the CRC in this week’s blog post… I have been very fortunate to have …Continue reading →

Main Library Summer Improvements 2016 – update 26/7/16 Work is continuing in the Main Library on a programme of works to bring significant improvements for library users through increasing the number of study spaces by 350 and providing …Continue reading →