Appraisal Made Easy (If Only…): A Day in the Life of an Appraisal Archivist TAGS: appraisal | Archives | university archives | University of Edinburgh Welcome to our Day in the Life Series, where each of our new team members will give you an insight into life behind the scenes at the University of Edinburgh’s …Continue reading →

Books, Boxes and Bugs! A day in the life of a Collections Care Technician at the Centre for Research Collections TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | collections | conservation | Exhibition | Integrated pest managment | Library | Museums | rehousing | technician Welcome to our new Day in the Life Series! The Conservation and Collections Management team recently recruited three new members of staff. In this series each of our new team …Continue reading →

The Book Surgery Part 2: Bringing Everything Together TAGS: book conservation | paper conservation | Royal Dick Vet School | Training In this blog, Project Conservator Mhairi Boyle her second day of in-situ book conservation training she has undertaken with Book Conservator Caroline Scharfenberg (ACR). Mhairi previously undertook a Maternity Cover …Continue reading →

Hello from your new (part-time) Law Librarian Hi! My name is Anna and I am a new Academic Support Librarian supporting Law. SarahLouise and I are job-sharing – I take the start of the week and SarahLouise …Continue reading →

Recovering Silent Sounds In this blog, Veronica Wilson discusses her project working with musical instruments in storage. Veronica started this project as a Thompson-Dunlop Intern and then joined the Conservation & Collections Management …Continue reading →

The University of Edinburgh Becomes the First UK University to Appoint a Web Archivist to Preserve 21st Century History Heritage Collections welcomes a new member of the digital archive team, Alice Austin, the first dedicated Web Archivist at the University of Edinburgh and the first dedicated Web Archivist at …Continue reading →

ERASMUS work placement visitor from Germany TAGS: librarians | RDM services | staff My name is Judith Dähne (Daehne). I am the Research Data Support Officer of RheinMain University of Applied Sciences. When I started to think about research data management (RDM) around …Continue reading →

The Case of the ‘L’Homme de la Denise’ We are grateful to present another guest blog! This time from Timothé Lhoste who is currently completing his master’s degree studying History of Science at the School for Advanced Studies …Continue reading →

LGBTQI+ History Month: Discovering the Papers of the BLOG Society and the Letters of Christopher Isherwood TAGS: Archives | LGBTQIA+ Ash Mowat is one of our volunteers in the Civic Engagement Team. Ash has been looking into the papers of the BLOG society and the letters of Christopher Isherwood in …Continue reading →

Spending a wee while with Lyell  Following in the brilliant footsteps of Claire, Sarah and Joanne – we have been lucky to have Sarah Partington working on conserving the Lyell Collection. For 14 weeks, Sarah was …Continue reading →