Bearing Witness: The Pre-Digitisation Conservation Treatment of The Witness, Part 1 This week we have the first instalment of a two-part series by Projects Conservator Mhairi Boyle. Mhairi spent April 2022 working on The Witness, a collection of Edinburgh-based newspapers held …Continue reading →

Putting the Pieces Together: The Challenges of Working on Architectural Models (Part 2) This week we have the final part of Project Conservator Mhairi Boyle’s series on the conservation treatment of three Percy Johnson-Marshall architectural models. The first part can be read  here. …Continue reading →

Conservator Claire turns to the dark side (but it all ends well). I am now in my final week of the Lyell Project; time has flown by as myself and our exceptional interns have breezed through the plethora of material in this …Continue reading →

New blog from the Digitisation Service Its taking teams of multi-skilled people to open up the Charles Lyell collection! Read all about the Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service Team’s efforts to digitise the Notebooks on their latest …Continue reading →

Database trial for Chinese and Japanese ancient books Some of us may have already used Diaolong Complete Si Ku Series (in Databases A-Z) that we have subscribed to for the last few years. This resource is part of …Continue reading →

Lyell staff update the Murray family donors It was a great pleasure for some of the Lyell project staff to welcome the Murray family to the Library, and to show them how their generous support is allowing …Continue reading →

Lulu: the most dangerous dog in Birmingham The purpose of a headline is to draw a reader into the story written below. “The dog of death roams a city for five hours”, is a headline that surely …Continue reading →

Scoop a student award for using digital library resources in Chinese The Library subscribes to two databases from CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastruture): China Academic Journals and China Doctoral and Masters Dissertations Full-text Database. These databases are receiving very high usage …Continue reading →

Royal Reflections from the RESP Archive TAGS: 20th century archives | cultural history | Manchester ship canal | Queen Elizabeth II | Queen Victoria | Scotland | social history This weekend sees the culmination of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth, and marks her 70th anniversary as monarch. This event provides us with an opportunity to …Continue reading →

Dissertation Support At this time of year many students are finishing their dissertations. There are a few places where students can get some advice and support on this in relation to library resources: …Continue reading →