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The collections in Edinburgh University Old College were moved in 1967 to the purpose-built eight-storey Main Library building at George Square, one of the largest academic libraries in the world. [1] Today, Edinburgh's university-wide library system holds over 3.8m books, e-books and e-journals in total. [2]
Notable members of Edinburgh University's School of History, Classics and Archaeology: Lord Abercromby – author of distinguished research on Bronze Age pottery; Abercromby Professors of Archaeology. Vere Gordon Childe – first holder of the Abercromby Chair [3] Stuart Piggott – second holder of the Abercromby Chair
Pre-dating the university by three years, Edinburgh University Library was founded in 1580 through the donation of a large collection by Clement Litill, and today is the largest academic library collection in Scotland. [205] [206] The Brutalist style eight-storey Main Library building in George Square was designed by Sir Basil Spence.
The Centre for the History of the Book (CHB) was established in 1995 at The University of Edinburgh as an international and interdisciplinary centre for advanced research into all aspects of the material culture of the text - its production, circulation, and reception from manuscript to the electronic text.
EDINA has its origin in Edinburgh University Data Library, which was set up in 1983/4. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh working with data from government surveys were looking to the university to provide university-wide provision for files that were too large to be stored on individual computing accounts. Arrangements for the ...
The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries is preserved in two illuminated manuscripts: Edinburgh, University Library, MS Arab 161 and Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Arabe 1489. The Edinburgh, University Library copy is an Ilkhanid codex created by Ibn al-Kutbi in AH 707 (AD 1307–1308) in northwestern Iran or northern Iraq. [5]
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The University of Edinburgh's historic Old College was designed by Robert Adam and completed by William Henry Playfair. In 1967 the library collection was moved to a new location. An arts centre with an exhibition hall was opened in the Quad in 1970, following a £20,000 renovation paid for by the Gulbenkian Foundation. [2]