Information Exchange with Osaka University This morning the University of Edinburgh’s Scholarly Communications Team was delighted to receive a delegation of guests who have travelled all the way from Osaka University in Japan.  Xin Yao …Continue reading →

Board Game Jam: Creating Openly-Licensed Board Games TAGS: board games | CRC Flickr | engagement | ILW 2016 | Nessie | OERs | OpenEdFeed At Innovative Learning Week this year we worked with students to develop board games using images from the CRC Flickr account as inspiration. Their challenge was to design a game …Continue reading →

Service of James Roland Rider – in the Army Veterinary Corps (AVC) TAGS: Army Veterinary Corps (AVC) | James Roland Rider | medals | Royal (Dick) Veterinary College | veterinary surgeon ILLUSTRATING SOME OF THE UNIVERSITY MEDALS OF JAMES ROLAND RIDER James Roland Rider was the son of a veterinary surgeon. He was born in Beamish, near Durham, in N.E.England, on …Continue reading →

Violins, horns, diamonds and a crocodile: SCOConnects with MIMEd TAGS: chamber | engagement | orchestra | public | scottish Violins, horns, diamonds and a crocodile: SCO Connects with MIMEd Reaching out and establishing ties to the community are important elements of the redevelopment of St Cecilia’s Hall. But how …Continue reading →

New MOOC! Research Data Management and Sharing [Guest post from Dr. Helen Tibbo, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill] The School of Information and Library Science and the Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and …Continue reading →

DataVault Project updates It’s been a while since we last posted a project update, so here is a round-up of recent progress: We are currently at the 11th International Digital Curation Conference in …Continue reading →

A Suffragette Belt TAGS: Edinburgh | Politics | Suffrage The CRC has recently acquired a rare belt previously owned by a Scottish suffragette. The belt has already been attracting lots of interest on Twitter so we’ve been exploring where …Continue reading →

Launch of our first Knowledge Exchange Week Library and University Collections is delighted to announce its first Knowledge Exchange Week to take place 20 June -24 June 2016. The programme is aimed at Library and Cultural Heritage Professionals from …Continue reading →

German prisoners in Britain, 1916 – at Donington Hall near Derby, in Dorchester, in Handforth, and at Eastcote TAGS: Donington Hall | Dorchester | Eastcote | Handforth | prisoners of war | Württemberg War Exhibition 1916 IMAGES FROM A BOOK IN OUR COLLECTIONS ENTITLED GERMAN PRISONERS IN GREAT BRITAIN (published circa 1916 by Tillotson & Son Ltd., Printers, Bolton & London) The photographs in the volume …Continue reading →

You in your small corner The New College Library has a marvellous series of manuscript sermon notebooks dating as far back as the 1640s (ref. MS SER). It is quite common within manuscript holdings to …Continue reading →