{"id":1,"date":"2021-03-12T14:46:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/asl\/?p=1"},"modified":"2021-03-18T15:11:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T15:11:58","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/asl\/2021\/03\/12\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Academic Support Librarians blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to the Academic Support Librarians blog! You can find out more about the Library Academic Support team here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We’ll be using this blog to highlight our generic information literacy activity, events and projects. We already have several great ASL blogs<\/a> for individual Schools, but this will be a blog for every member of the ASL team. Above all we’re aiming to tell the story of the work our team does to support students and staff at the University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the Academic Support Librarians blog! You can find out more about the Library Academic Support team here. We’ll be using this blog to highlight our generic information literacy activity, events and projects. 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