50 Years of Sociology at Edinburgh: Professor Tom Burns TAGS: academic support librarian | Events | Library | Resource Lists | Sociology In 1964 the Sociology department at University of Edinburgh was founded by Tom Burns. A prominent sociologist and one of the first sociologists to be elected to a Fellowship of …Continue reading →

Happy Graduation Day! TAGS: Emma Smith | graduation | Graham Dey | Sheila Fleet   Today we have lots of celebrations as a number of alumni, colleagues and friends celebrate graduations. Among them are Graham Dey who was Welfare Officer and music guru at …Continue reading →

Presentation skills Giving lectures is a prominent aspect of working life for many academics, as the animal genetics archives here at Edinburgh University Library Special Collections show. Most of the collections of scientists’ personal …Continue reading →

A Case for Sensorship Preventive conservation, and environmental monitoring in particular, is an important part of my job as Conservation Officer at the University. It was for this reason, therefore, that I found myself …Continue reading →

Employ.Ed Hidden Collections Intern – Weeks 2 to 4 TAGS: Annexe | Careers | Hidden | Intern | Nelson Archive | new zealand | Polynesian Society | Projects | Thomas Nelson Halfway through the internship, so here comes another update from the Annexe. These few weeks have been a lot more eventful than I would have expected. Let me try and …Continue reading →

June E-Book News TAGS: e-books | Oxford Handbooks | Palgrave | Sage The following multidisciplinary e-book collections are now available with the individual titles added to the library catalogue. Oxford Handbooks Online We have extended our existing Oxford Handbooks Online collection with …Continue reading →

Open Access in the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine TAGS: "open access" "article processing fees" | gold open access | green open access | open access | RCUK | Wellcome Trust My name is Anna Krzak, and I am an Open Access Research Publications Administrator for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. I have been …Continue reading →

Building History As part of our role here, Malcolm and I have taken many photographs of the Main Library. Over the years this has built up an archive of born digital images …Continue reading →

Dealing with Data – Call For Papers TAGS: Information Services | Research Data Dealing with Data Conference 2014 Call for Papers Date: Tuesday 26th August 2014, 9am – 1pm Including a formal launch of University RDM service by the Principal at 11:30am Location: …Continue reading →

Dealing with Data – Call For Papers Dealing with Data Conference 2014 Call for Papers Date: Tuesday 26th August 2014, 9am – 1pm Including a formal launch of the University Research Data Management services by the Principal …Continue reading →