Back to the Wall: A Year of Experimenting with the Main Library’s Digital Wall TAGS: Digital Imaging Unit | Digital Wall | Edinburgh College of Art | photography | students | Talks | University of Edinburgh Library The Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service (CHDS) has managed the Main Library’s Digital Wall since it was installed in late 2019.1 The Wall is made up of two sets of nine …Continue reading →

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 →

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected 5 TAGS: Bank of sweets | Black Shuck | book illustration | carollers | childhood memories | Children's stories | Christmas | Edinburgh College of Art | Henry VIII | Hertfordshire | Hitchin | hobby horse | Illustration | krakow | Lajkonik | lany poniedzialek | masqueraders | Norfolk | Notgeld | Ogre of Smeeth | Pedlar of Swaffham | poland | rare books | Smigus-dyngus | Special Collections | Wet Monday Wet Monday, Henry VIII Falls in the River, and the Ogre of Smeeth, all funded through the Bank of Sweets. For our fifth visit to the ECA Illustration students’ Notgeld …Continue reading →

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected 4 TAGS: Abstract | Arctic Monkeys | book illustration | Busan | Edinburgh | Edinburgh College of Art | fork | Goff | Golf | Illustration | Jessica Ennis-Hill | Korea | lace | Leith | Notgeld | Nottingham | Scottish independence | Sean Bean | Sheffield | Special Collections Lace, Forks, The Arctic Monkeys and Golf This is the fourth in our series of posts based on the current exhibition in the Library Gallery, and the project by Edinburgh …Continue reading →

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected. 3 TAGS: book illustration | Edinburgh College of Art | etching | hippogriff | Illustration | Mars | Notgeld | rabbits | rare books | steampunk | Utopia Hippogriffs, Rabbits, Skyship Ports and Mars: Fantasy Worlds In our third visit to the student Notgeld and its connections with the exhibition, we move into the realms of fantasy. Some …Continue reading →

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected: 2 TAGS: Edinburgh College of Art | Illustration | Jesuits | Notgeld | political cartoons | Robert Parsons | Robert Persons | Satire | Spanish Armada | Trump Satire This is the second in our series of posts based on the current exhibition in the Library Gallery, and the project by Edinburgh College of Art Illustration students, based …Continue reading →

Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected. 1 TAGS: Edinburgh College of Art | Illustration | Notgeld A Sense of Place If you have been passing the Main Library recently you will have seen the exhibition in the Library Gallery on the ground floor, of some of …Continue reading →

Impact of the War on the University and the Art College TAGS: Edinburgh College of Art | education | First World War | university | University of Edinburgh The following was written by Gillian McDonald, a MSc Scottish Studies intern, who spent some time in early 2013 looking at selected items in the archives of the two institutions …Continue reading →

Tag It, Find It! TAGS: Art Collection | collections | Edinburgh College of Art | fine art | gaming | ILW | metadata | Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library | Tagging Pop-up Library is back for a limited time only in Innovative Learning Week (ILW) and we want you to say what you see! Combining two of our most popular Pop-up Library …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 →