Imagining Noah’s Ark : Special Collections on display at New College Library TAGS: Biblical Studies | Divinity | New College Library | science Noah’s Ark has been in the news lately with the recent block buster film Noah. Currently on display in the entrance to New College Library is a nineteenth-century imagining of …Continue reading →

Finding love in the Library – new books at New College Library in May TAGS: Books | Divinity | New College Library | Theology & Ethics Love is in the air this month in the new books coming into New College Library. Currently in our new books display is Love online by Jean-Claude Kaufmann ; translated by David Macey …Continue reading →

Scotland’s Religious Past : Unique Special Collections at New College Library, Edinburgh TAGS: Divinity | eighteenth-century | Funk | Hymnology | New College Library | Pamphlets | Psalms | rare books Here at New College Library we’re rediscovering unique Special Collections items which tell the story of Scotland’s radical religious past. This item, The Lord’s trumpet sounding an alarm against Scotland, …Continue reading →

From Noah to New Labour – New books at New College Library in April TAGS: Books | Divinity | New College Library | Theology & Ethics Floods are a theme linking two of our new books this month. Looking back to the Biblical Flood is The rocks don’t lie : a geologist investigates Noah’s flood, by David …Continue reading →

Missionary to the North – The Paterson Bible Collection TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Funk | missions | New College Library | rare books | russia | World Christianity In early 2014 we began work to catalogue the Paterson Bible Collection, as part of the Funk Cataloguing Projects at New College Library. This collection of over 300 Bibles in …Continue reading →

New Books at New College Library – March (recommended by students) TAGS: Books | Divinity | New College Library | students Student recommendations are in at New College Library! New in this month is Newman and his family, by Edward Short, available as an ebook via the library catalogue.   Also new is The …Continue reading →

Hidden faces of New College Library #ILW2014 TAGS: Archives | Divinity | innovative learning week | New College Library There’s still time to come to the Innovative Learning Week Session : Library Pecha Kucha – Our Favourite Things. Six members of staff will be allowed just 5 minutes to present …Continue reading →

Dumfries Presbytery Library Project at New College Library now complete TAGS: Divinity | Funk | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century | sixteenth-century We’re pleased to announce that the Dumfries Presbytery Library Cataloguing Project is now complete. This project is one of the Funk Cataloguing Projects at New College Library.   This is a collection …Continue reading →

The ‘Z’ Factor New College Special Collections Project now complete TAGS: Divinity | Funk | New College Library | rare books                 We’re pleased to announce that the Z Collection at New College Library, which numbers almost 5,000 Special Collections items, has now been completely catalogued online as …Continue reading →

Chinese calligraphy on display at New College Library TAGS: China | New College Library | seventeenth-century | Special Collections | World Christianity On display in the New College Library entrance this week is the  beautiful Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting (Inglis 23). This is a classic treatise of calligraphic art on …Continue reading →