A Literary Pub Crawl To round off a very busy Thursday, packed with innovation fund project talks, musical instruments, a peek behind the scenes of the St Cecilia’s Hall redevelopment project and a lovely …Continue reading →

A Blustery Day Following the full treatment in the CRC on Tuesday afternoon we braved the rather windy rooftop terrace to enjoy the views with a glass of something. The sun even peeked …Continue reading →

Sample Furniture – New Study Desks The sample furniture has now started to arrive and is being displayed on the first floor Mezzanine.  Below are some images of the new study desks. We do value your …Continue reading →

Main Library Collection Compression The move of collections in the Main Library is now underway. Contract staff are working on the second floor to free up shelves which will be removed later in the …Continue reading →

St Cecilia’s Hall and the University of Edinburgh’s Musical Instrument Collection Today KEW participants enjoyed a musical museums morning! We talked about our St Cecilia’s Hall Project – the University of Edinburgh’s £6.5m project to restore, renovate and make accessible Scotland’s …Continue reading →

Collections Management talk and Library Annexe tour – Hannah Mateer On Monday 20 June I gave a talk focusing on the relationship between Collections Management projects and the development of the University Estate. I spoke about the Law Library refurbishment …Continue reading →

Meet the Project Digitisation team! TAGS: Project Digitisation Assistants We’re now almost two month’s into the PhD thesis digitisation project. Find out a bit more about the project digitisation team below! Fiona I am Fiona Mowat and I have …Continue reading →

KEW – gardens TAGS: KEW KEW 2016’s action-packed schedule continued yesterday with an off-campus trip to the Library and Archives at the Royal Botanic Garden. Not wanting to miss the opportunity to find out more …Continue reading →

Digital Preservation: the search for the silver bullet It is fair to say that the preservation of digital material, as an issue, it not new to anyone and that was certainly true of those present at our Knowledge …Continue reading →

Rationing and a healthy and nourishing diet during the Great War TAGS: Food Controller | rationing REFLECTED IN PARTS OF A RECIPE BOOK CREATED BY NINA BALFOUR AND VICTORIA ALEXANDRINE MONTAGU SCOTT (LATER LADY LOTHIAN) Recently acquired by Edinburgh University Library is a fine bound manuscript …Continue reading →