From the Art Collection #73 TAGS: Dorothy Black | Edinburgh College of Art | From the Art Collection | MGS Intern Twist by Dorothy Black Today’s From the Art Collection has been selected by our new Museums Galleries Scotland intern, Colette Bush. She writes: I started last week as the new …Continue reading →

From the Art Collections #43 TAGS: Charlotte Roseberry | ECA Collection | Edinburgh College of Art | From the Art Collection Extrude by Charlotte Roseberry It has been a very exciting few days for ECA Collections as, for the first time since the curatorial team started, works have been formally collected …Continue reading →

Library Quality survey – check your inbox! TAGS: LibQUAL | Library | surveys The Library launched the LibQUAL +2013 quality survey today. Check  your inbox! If you have been randomly selected to participate, you will have received an email this morning which contains a link to …Continue reading →

Bibliometrics in Libraries, 12 September 2013 TAGS: Bibliometrics | Citations | Library On the 12 September, I attended the second Bibliometrics in Libraries workshop hosted by the University of Sussex, this was a one day event sponsored by Elsevier for those who …Continue reading →

TPDL Conference, Valletta, September 22-26, 2013 The Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries conference (TPDL) was held in Valletta, Malta on 22-26 September, and Digital Development Team manager Claire Knowles got an extra week of summertime …Continue reading →

Gems from the ECA Rare Books Collection The CRC Assistant Rare Books Librarian has been busy cataloguing books from the Edinburgh College of Art Collection again, and has sent a few our way to photograph for upcoming …Continue reading →

A Picture Paints a Thousand Words Drawing out the detail through visual interpretation   As you may already know, the University of Edinburgh, through Library and University Collections, is one …Continue reading →

The Library Quality Survey 2013 TAGS: LibQUAL | Library | survey During October and November (21October- 18 November) the Library will take part in the LibQUAL+ survey.  Complete the survey and you could win an iPad mini. On 21st October undergraduates, …Continue reading →

Ethiopian Horses in the thesis collection These stunning watercolours of zebras in north-eastern Africa are a surprising find in the Library’s collections of early theses, held in Special Collections. They come from a thesis written by J. …Continue reading →

Final selection of images of “Old Edinburgh” by Baldwin Brown. This is the Digital Imaging Units final instalment of images from the Centre for Research Collections Baldwin Brown images of “Old Edinburgh”. Many thanks to those who have responded with …Continue reading →