Search results: "little free library"Page 1 of 30
…friend. Simple. You can donate books to our Little Free Library at either of our visitor receptions, at the East or West gates. Our Little Free Library at the Botanics…
…enables complete beginners to contribute biological records using their smartphones. The library at Little Sparta became a warm and dry indoor space for species identification. The event was part of…
A series of posts from our volunteers … Laura Gunstensen – Library Volunteer Laura Gunstensen The ‘Botanics’ have always been a very special place for me since I arrived, fresh…
…chosen to complete my 10 weeks in the RBGE library. The purpose of the placement was to catalogue the rare duodecimo collection – books which are 20cm or smaller in…
…and have been volunteering in the Botanics Library for five years. I worked mostly in education, both administratively and teaching. Through membership of NADFAS I became a “Heritage Volunteer”, joining a…
…of the front cover of the book from John’s library now held at the RBGE Library When John gave him [John Taylor] the loan of any book, he was accustomed…
…days in Nepal. Going to the library is like entering a magic box where all sorts of treasures are discovered and the library staff, especially Leonie and Graham, enlighten those…
…of the garden has transformed the ecology of the site over the last 50 years and, in addition, relatively little biological recording has been carried out there. Little Sparta, near…
47. Rhododendron thomsonii J.D. Hooker ERICACEAE Dr. Thomson’s Rhododendron A native of the eastern Himalaya, this is one of the many species of rhododendron discovered by Joseph Hooker in Sikkim….
Roland Edgar Cooper. RBGE Library Archive Roland Edgar Cooper was born in 1890 and orphaned at an early age. Once he turned sixteen he came under the guardianship of his…
…In 1771, the library was dissolved and transferred by the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo to the Biblioteca Magliabechiana (which later became the National Central Library of Florence). However, not all…
…as Chief Social Researcher in 2010. I volunteered to work in the RBGE Library and Archives in 2013, having heard about the opportunity through membership of EDFAS. Since then I…
Could you identify these pollinators? A brand new, free, online course launches in March 2018. ‘Keep Edinburgh Buzzing’ is a joint venture between the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh (RBGE),…
In March 2020, in response to the Coronavirus outbreak, the RBGE Library, Archives and Photography staff, along with most of our colleagues, found ourselves working remotely from home. As well…
You may be interested to know that there is a small display in the library foyer, just up the stairs from the garden’s memorial, covering our WW1 Roll of Honour,…
…there on holidays. We catalogued the papers and put the data online. Other tasks involved similar work. Particularly fascinating was cataloguing the details on “ Seaweed” gifted to the Library…
…research skills developed during an earlier museum career. Jane, the then Head of Library Services, had an ‘I have been waiting for you’ look on her face when she handed…
…Fine Arts Soc.] In 2017 I was invited to volunteer to help in the Library and Lorna asked if I would sieve through the accumulated archive to do an initial…
…100 ng. We also used NEB‘s NEBNext Ultra library preparation kit for Illumina (E7370S), which has been optimized for as little as 5 ng of starting DNA. The DNA for…