The Library for New Staff
If you are a new staff member at Edinburgh Napier University, we would like to welcome you to our campus libraries. They are not just for students and academic staff so why not check them out?
In our libraries you will find novels, books on music, design, photography, health and much more. We also have access to thousands of e-books and articles. Sign into our catalogue, Library Search , to search for books and articles and to access databases.
If you would like to borrow a book from a different campus from the one you are working at, it’s not a problem. You can use our Click and Collect service to request books from other campus libraries and you will receive an email notification when it is available for you to collect. You can then issue the book to yourself at one of our self-service kiosks. This is useful if you would like to borrow an item after staff hours. Books can also be returned using the kiosks. Using the Box of Broadcasts database, you have access to thousands of programmes from a range of tv channels. Search for archived programmes or “record” upcoming ones.
Our Wellbeing Collection offers a range of materials which deal with topics such as anxiety and depression, to living well and sexuality. In each campus library we have a Relaxation Space where we have colouring sheets, jigsaws and coloured pencils for your use. You can of course, just come along to relax.
If the nearest printer to your workstation is out of order, you can release your printing from the library printers as the system is cloud-based.
We hope to see you sometime in the library and please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. You can follow us and keep up to date with library news on Instagram and X: Email: library@napier.ac.uk
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by Vivienne Hamilton
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Dear Vivienne Hamilton.
I came across your piece about the White Lady of Comiston. A local resident, I’m the lady who, along with a late friend, got this pathway (along with two others) named by the Council some years ago (Pentland School Lane was another). In the area there were three paths without names – and we thought that in the event of some incident it would be difficult to try and describe the location of a particular obscure path to emergency services.
I don’t know the identity of Stevenson’s White Lady – but I do know all the details of the Hunters’ Tryst White Lady. The story here dates from 1897 and concerns a child homicide in which Doctor Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn carried out the forensic work.
Happy to talk to you about it in person, but, for the sake of descendants, don’t want to put any more detail online.
By the way, the detective in the 1897 Comiston case had some years earlier been involved in investigating the Eugene Chantrelle wife murder. A Stevenson connection here, too, as Stevenson knew Chantrelle.