Unwrapping the Martin Hall Collection TAGS: Biblical Studies | Divinity | Funk | medieval | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century This January we began cataloguing work on the MR Collection from New College Library’s Special Collections. This sequence contains much early and rare material, and carries the shelfmark MR because at …Continue reading →

Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology now on trial TAGS: Divinity | Hymnology | online New on trial for University of Edinburgh users from 3 March to 31 March is the  Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology is the replacement for the Dictionary of Hymnology produced …Continue reading →

Tackling a Library time capsule : The Longforgan Free Church Ministers Library TAGS: Divinity | eighteenth-century | Free Church of Scotland | Funk | Longforgan | New College Library | nineteenth-century | rare books | Roman | seventeenth-century Regular visitors to New College Library have probably walked past the Longforgan Free Church Ministers Library many times. It sits in custom made glazed bookcases, which are sited on the …Continue reading →

New books at New College Library – January TAGS: anthropology | Books | Divinity | New College Library | Religious Studies An anthropological theme to our featured new books this month. The invention of God in indigenous societies / by James L. Cox. is now available in the Reserve section BL380 Cox. at New …Continue reading →

Back to the future : New College Library’s history today TAGS: Archives | Disruption | Divinity | New College Library | students New College Library was pleased to host a visit from the Friends of Edinburgh University Library last week. As well as looking at a selection of Special Collections and touring the Library, …Continue reading →

Get the Best from the Library … for Divinity TAGS: Divinity Want to get the best from the Library for Divinity? A key starting point is the Divinity Subject Guide at http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/subject-guides-divinity. Start here to explore print and electronic collections, library …Continue reading →

Unique New College theses going digital TAGS: Divinity | ERA | Funk | New College Library | online | research | Theses Over two hundred theses from the New College Library collection will soon be available online. We’ve been successful in a small project bid to digitise 200 theses dating 1921-1950.  While later theses are held …Continue reading →

Welcome to arriving students at New College Library! TAGS: Divinity | Freshers Week | New College Library | students A big welcome to all our new students arriving today. New College Library holds over 250,000 volumes, including rich and unique Special Collections, making it one of the leading theological libraries in …Continue reading →

Aberdeen Connections #RBSCG14 TAGS: Divinity | New College Library | Pamphlets Last week I was privileged to attend the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections conference at the Sir Duncan Rice Library at Aberdeen University. I was able to take a …Continue reading →

Past Politics : Pamphlets from an independent Scotland TAGS: Divinity | eighteenth-century | Funk | New College Library | Pamphlets | Politics | Scotland New College Library’s Pamphlets Collection of over 30,000 items captures the issues and debates from the seventeenth century onwards. Now on display in the New College Library entrance are just a …Continue reading →