Unexpected delights at the UCF TAGS: Annexe | grass | Library Annexe | orchid | UCF | unexpected | University Collections Facility There is a large area of grass growing at the side of the University Collections Facility (née Library Annexe) which is usually just grass and moss with the odd daisy …Continue reading →

The University of Edinburgh Library Annexe TAGS: Annexe | south gyle Many University staff and students are blissfully unaware of the existence of the Library Annexe (I know I was, before starting work here earlier this summer), which is situated in the heart …Continue reading →

Compliments of the Season TAGS: Annexe | Christmas | General Collections Did you know that the Christmas card is an English invention? John Calcott Horsley, painter and illustrator designed the very first card for the commission of Sir Henry Cole, the …Continue reading →

Sheep Showcase TAGS: Annexe | CRC | Dolly | Fringe | genetics | Sheep | Special Collections | Towards Dolly | University of Edinburgh Have you ever met Jordan, the Library Cat? What if there was another furry animal in the Library, maybe not as alive, but nonetheless as interesting? The Main Library’s newest …Continue reading →

Do it like they do on the DiscoverEd channel TAGS: Annexe | collections | DiscoverEd | Library | Library Annexe | Search | University of Edinburgh DiscoverED, the University of Edinburgh’s new one step information, discovery and delivery service, is now on-line and fully operational. You can request Library Annexe items using the new service; all …Continue reading →

Thomas Nelson Exhibition: Covers in Colour TAGS: Annexe | CRC | Exhibition | Library Annexe | Nelson | Nelson Archive | Repertory Plays | Thomas Nelson The new exhibition in the CRC showcases a number of items from the Thomas Nelson Archive, which has been written about on this blog more than once in the past. …Continue reading →

Recycling at the Annexe (It’s easy bein’ green) TAGS: Annexe | Dunbar | Estates | Green | John Muir | Library Annexe | Litter | Recycling | University of Edinburgh | Waste We’re happy to report that the Library Annexe has joined University’s (recycling) efforts to make our planet a wee bit more sustainable. Every little step in the right direction helps, …Continue reading →

Edinburgh University Press and the Library Annexe TAGS: Annexe | Capitalism | Edinburgh University Press | Elvis | EUP | Ideology | Library Annexe | Slovenia | Special Collections | Žižek Part of the Special Collections material we keep here at the Library Annexe is the published output of the Edinburgh University Press; leading scholarly publisher of academic books and journals …Continue reading →

Merry AnneXMAS! TAGS: Annexe | Christmas | Edinburgh College of Art | Library Annexe | Maurice Sendak | Merry Christmas | Punch | University of Edinburgh Merry Christmas from Edinburgh’s Library Annexe! Here are a few festive images from some of the books that can be found within our general lending collections:       Images …Continue reading →

Favourite character from a Scottish book TAGS: Annexe | Book Week Scotland | Catalogue | David Lyndsay | Grant Morrison | Library Annexe | OPAC | Scottish Book Trust | The Invisibles | University of Edinburgh | Voyage to Arcturus As part of Book Week Scotland, the Scottish Book Trust are holding a vote to discover the most loved characters in Scottish fiction. Here, the Library Annexe staff put forward …Continue reading →