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October 19, 2021
Crowdsourcing Conservation 2018 TAGS: crowdsourcing | David Laing | rehousing Due to the success of last year’s ‘Crowdsourcing Conservation’ event, we are repeating the session on 19 and 20 February 2018! You can read more about last year’s event here. …Continue reading →
Medieval Manuscripts from the Dirt Ages TAGS: David Laing | medieval manuscripts | paper | parchment | surface cleaning February saw the start of a new project to surface clean and rehouse the CRC’s most important collection of Western medieval manuscripts, which were bequeathed to the library by David …Continue reading →
Oh Christmas Tree! TAGS: archive | David Laing | Manuscripts | rare books | Special Collections Christmas has well and truly arrived at the Main Library with the installation of a 12 foot Christmas tree. This year we decided to use images from the CRC collections …Continue reading →
Edinburgh Research Archive: March 2021
Edinburgh Research Archive: March 2021 • https://era.ed.ac.uk March saw a record number of downloads for ERA,...
Edinburgh Research Explorer: March 2021
Edinburgh Research Explorer: March 2021 • www.research.ed.ac.uk The dip in download numbers which seemed to inflict...
Semply the Best: A Collection in Need of Some Love
This week’s blog comes from Project Collections Assistants Anna O’Regan, Winona O’Connor and Max Chesnokov...
The Battle of Life: A look at the Dumfriesshire mental health survey
“worried, dull and anxious, not quite up to the battle of life.” Widowed female, 45-54...
