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 →

Cataloguing Christ’s Second Coming TAGS: Divinity | Funk | New College Library | nineteenth-century | Special Collections We’re delighted that the cataloguing of nearly 500 items held in the Shaw Collection on the Catholic Apostolic Church at New College Library, is now complete. While further research is …Continue reading →