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December 9, 2023
Art and The Playfair: Speaking to Absent Volumes, or How to Find Books in the Library, Old Style TAGS: Art project | artists' books | catalogues | Edinburgh College of Art | Inventories | Playfair library During the academic year 2019-20 Rare Books worked with a group of third year students from Edinburgh College of Art. The project was to produce an artist’s book in response …Continue reading →
Early Library Records TAGS: catalogues | enlightenment | old library | palaeography | shelf lists Our intern, Nathalie, is reaching the end of the project, working on the earliest of the library records. She has achieved a great deal in the weeks she has been …Continue reading →
Library and University Collections sign up to ArchivesSpace TAGS: Archives | catalogues | information systems development | open source | Special Collections At the end of 2013, the University of Edinburgh’s Library and University Collections (L&UC) became the first institution in the UK and Europe to become members of ArchivesSpace. Built for …Continue reading →
A Scottish Witness of the Great Kantō Earthquake
To mark the centenary of the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, we are publishing a...
Come Hither: Walter de la Mare and the Young of All Ages
The English writer Walter de la Mare was born 150 years ago this week on...
Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Rehousing Books and Paper Bindings
In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers,...
The Book Surgery Part 2: Bringing Everything Together
In this blog, Project Conservator Mhairi Boyle her second day of in-situ book conservation training...
