Top five library questions from SPS PG students TAGS: academic support librarian | Endnote | IT Help | JSTOR | SCONUL Access | Social & Political Sciences | study space It was great to meet so many SPS postgraduate students in our Welcome Week workshops on Library Resources. We’ve now put the slides from these sessions up on our subject …Continue reading →

DIU Moving Image Update The work that DIU are developing around moving image has grown considerably in the last two years and the demand for moving image has increased exponentially with each new film …Continue reading →

LOCH Project Update – September 2015 The three partners in the LOCH Project have all had busy few months, using the Summer to gear up for Open Access implementation in the new semester.   Events In …Continue reading →

Encouraging ‘deposit on acceptance’ by email Earlier this year we published a report “A year in the life of Open Access support: continuous improvement at University of St Andrews” which described development of our OA support …Continue reading →

Arthur Holmes: The most famous British geologist you have never heard of TAGS: Exhibitions Geology Geosciences Gillian McCay, co-curator of the School of GeoSciences Cockburn Museum collection, writes about geologist Arthur Holmes, the subject of a micro exhibition in the University Main Library Sunday September 20th …Continue reading →

Latest enhancements to DiscoverEd There is now a “Request from closed stack” link on the Details tab for items which are held in the Main Library basement closed stacks.   The link points to the …Continue reading →

Dealing with Data 2015 – Presentations now available On the 31st August, over one hundred researchers from across the breadth of the University of Edinburgh met together in the Informatics Forum to discuss the challenges of dealing with …Continue reading →

Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: June – July 2015 May 2015 saw the end of the current Roadmap period and we are now into a period of consolidating work that has already been done and organising future work for …Continue reading →

Of Pibrochs and Preachers: Music and Folk Culture in the Old Statistical Accounts Perhaps particularly in a post-Christian society it is stereotypes we live with, rather than the nuanced reality of religion. Listening to the thoughts of ministers by reading the Old Statistical …Continue reading →

Welcome to arriving students at New College Library! TAGS: New College Library | students A big welcome to all our new students arriving today. New College Library holds over 250,000 volumes, including rich and unique Special Collections, making it one of the leading theological libraries in …Continue reading →