New College Library books recommended by students TAGS: Books | New College Library | students Student recommendations are in at New College Library! The recently purchased Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism, edited by Mark Stoll, is available as an ebook via DiscoverEd. Other …Continue reading →

Edinburgh University Students in Spain TAGS: alumni | Spanish Civil War | students It is 80 years since the Spanish Civil War broke out.  Unlike both World Wars, we have no record of University of Edinburgh students who fought (and died) in Spain …Continue reading →

Find treasure in New College Library TAGS: Divinity | New College Library | students We’re welcoming Divinity postgraduate students today for library treasure hunt activities to help them get to know New College Library. Students on the five postgraduate programmes have already had access to brief video …Continue reading →

Feedback questions from library welcome sessions TAGS: Endnote | feedback | Main Library | Mendeley | SPSS | students It was great to meet so many SPS postgraduate students in our Welcome Week workshops on Library Resources. We’ve now put the slides from these sessions up on our subject guide …Continue reading →

Thinking of donating books to New College Library? TAGS: alumni | Books | Divinity | donations | New College Library | students New College Library welcomes donations of recent publications that support the current teaching and research of the School of Divinity. And donations of books which record the intellectual output of the …Continue reading →

Divinity Approaches to Research – Top tips for finding Bibles TAGS: Bible | Divinity | New College Library | postgraduate | students   The University of Edinburgh Library holds extensive and rich collections of Bibles. At New College Library, you will find of early Bibles from the Scottish Reformation, Bibles in languages from all over …Continue reading →

Divinity Approaches to Research – Library Resources for Islam TAGS: Divinity | islam | New College Library | postgraduate | students View of pages from the Qur’an of Tipu Sultan. Shows text in the centre, surrounded by gold and blue illumination. Tipu Sultan was the Muslim ruler of Southern India’s Mysore …Continue reading →

Welcome to arriving students at New College Library! TAGS: 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 →

New Books at New College Library – August (recommended by students) TAGS: Books | Divinity | students | Theology & Ethics Student recommendations are in at New College Library! The recently purchased Oxford Handbook of the Psalms, edited by William Brown, is available as an ebook via  DiscoverEd.   Other student recommendations in the library include is Speaking …Continue reading →

A Life Cut Short: Stephanie’s Story TAGS: alumni | Medicine | students | Women In 1936, Julia Stephanie Evadne McGregor was in the final year of a five-year medical degree and showed all the signs of a highly motivated and conscientious student who would …Continue reading →