{"id":2148,"date":"2015-04-28T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2015-04-28T13:51:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T13:51:36","slug":"new-digital-access-to-divinity-theses-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2015\/04\/28\/new-digital-access-to-divinity-theses-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"New digital access to Divinity theses collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/11\/theses1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-733\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/11\/theses1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"New College Theses\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/11\/theses1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/11\/theses1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m delighted to announced that nearly\u00a0two hundred and fifty\u00a0theses dating from 1921-1950 from the New College Library collection\u00a0are now\u00a0available online in the Edinburgh Research Archive, part of the Divinity Dissertation and Thesis Collection.\u00a0While later theses are held in 2 copies, one at the Main Library, we\u00a0believe that New College Library holds the only copy of theses from this early period.\u00a0 The New College Theses collection was catalogued online in 2012 as part of the <a title=\"New College Theses Collection\" href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/05\/31\/new-college-theses-collection-now-fully-catalogued-online\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Funk Projects<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>The digitisation project was managed by Gavin Willshaw<i>, <\/i>Digital Curator in Library &amp; University Collections, who explains :<i>\u00a0&#8220;We worked with the digitisation company Restore to digitise 250 unique theses from New College \u2013 these are now available open-access for anyone to download at: <\/i><a id=\"LPlnk293085\" href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/handle\/1842\/133\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\"><i><u>https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/handle\/1842\/133<\/u><\/i><\/span><\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The theses are fully searchable on the ERA platform but also discoverable via Google, making New College scholarship accessible to a much wider audience.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The collection includes a wide variety of research topics, such as <em>Comparison of Chinese and Hebrew wisdom, as exemplified in the Book of Proverbs<\/em> &#8230; [1933] by Elizabeth G.K. Hewat, or <em>The Christian Inscriptions of North Africa<\/em> &#8230; [1943]\u00a0by Ian Thomson Gillan. Do you recognise any of the authors? We&#8217;d love to know more about what happened next to these Divinity alumni.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Gavin Willshaw, Digital Curator<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Christine Love-Rodgers, Academic Support Librarian &#8211; Divinity<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m delighted to announced that nearly\u00a0two hundred and fifty\u00a0theses dating from 1921-1950 from the New College Library collection\u00a0are now\u00a0available online in the Edinburgh Research Archive, part of the Divinity Dissertation and Thesis Collection.\u00a0While later theses are held in 2 copies, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2015\/04\/28\/new-digital-access-to-divinity-theses-collection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[199],"tags":[57,131,138,159,181],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42UaT-yE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}