Trial – Early Modern Pamphlets Online TAGS: Brill | database | Dutch Pamphlets | Early Modern Pamphlets Online | Flugschriften | Knuttel Collection | Van Alphen collection We have trial access to Early Modern Pamphlets Online until 13th June.  We are trialling all 3 collections within Early Modern Pamplets Online: Dutch Pamphlets 1486-1853: The Knuttel Collection The …Continue reading →

Data Vault project kickoff meeting Last week, members of the Data Vault project got together for the kickoff meeting.  Hosted at the University of Manchester Library, we were able to discuss the project plan, milestones …Continue reading →

George McDonald Sutherland (1886-1917), architect TAGS: architects | Architecture | George McDonald Sutherland (1886-1917) | Sir Robert Lorimer (1864-1929) GEORGE MCDONALD SUTHERLAND AND HIS LOST ‘YEARS TO BE’… THE STORY OF A ROBBED CAREER. In his 1914 sonnets (III. The Dead), the war poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) wrote of …Continue reading →

‘Develop a Data Vault’ project funded! The ‘Develop a Data Vault‘ proposal submitted to the Jisc #DataSpring funding call has been funded!  Jointly submitted by the Universities of Edinburgh and Manchester, the project aims to develop …Continue reading →

New data analysis and visualisation service Statistical Analysis without Statistical Software The Data Library now has an SDA server (Survey Documentation and Analysis), and is ready to load numeric data files for access by either University …Continue reading →

Stirling Work Last week, a contingent from conservation left their natural habitat of the studio to embark on a day trip up North. Stirling University was our destination, more specifically their conservation …Continue reading →

Musical Instruments on the Today programme On Thursday, March 12, the collection of the distinguished keyboard player and conductor Christopher Hogwood was sold at auction. As part of the lead to this, Collection Curator Jenny Nex, …Continue reading →

open.ed report Lorna M. Campbell, a Digital Education Manager with EDINA and the University of Edinburgh, writes about the ideas shared and discussed at the open.ed event this week.   Earlier this week I …Continue reading →

Library Play Day TAGS: games | gamification Last Friday, Gavin, Caroline, Matthew and I attended a Library  Gamification day organised by the Scottish Academic Libraries Cooperative Training Group. Andrew Walsh, from the University of Huddersfield gave us …Continue reading →

Charles Sarolea and his relief effort for Belgium during the War TAGS: 'Everyman' | Belgian Relief and Reconstruction Fund | Belgium | Charles Sarolea (1870-1953) RELIEF FOR BELGIUM… OFFERS OF AID FROM ALL OVER SCOTLAND If we are to let our collections talk about the First World War, then surely the story of Charles Sarolea …Continue reading →