Righting Letters – Conserving the Lyell Collection TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | conservation | rehousing | SirCharlesLyell | University of Edinburgh Today we have the first installment of a two-part series from Sarah MacLean. Sarah is here on an 8-week internship funded by the NMCT to help with the conservation of …Continue reading →

True crime podcasts: finding the real story in law reports TAGS: databases | heinonline | information skills | podcasts | research | Training If you listen to true crime podcasts you may recently have heard Bad People (BBC Sounds) report on the story of little Helen Priestley, a child from Aberdeen who was …Continue reading →

New resources: Cambridge University Press Etextbooks TAGS: ebooks | new | resources We like to keep our staff and students updated on any new items we have access to in the library. This month we bring news of several ebooks which have …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Open Research Conference – Call for Contributions The University’s Library Research Support Team and grassroots organisations Edinburgh ReproducibiliTea and Edinburgh Open Research Initiative (EORI) are joining forces to launch the first Edinburgh Open Research Conference.  Which will be …Continue reading →

The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery: primary sources TAGS: databases | decolonialising | Diversity | e-resources | Library | online resources | slavery | transatlantic slave trade For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were victims of the transatlantic slave trade. And on 25th March every year, the International Day of Remembrance …Continue reading →

Dissertation Festival: Exploring library resources for dissertations in gender studies TAGS: Archives | Centre for Research Collections | digital skills | DiscoverEd | Dissertation Festival | gender studies | IAD | information literacy | LGBTQ+ studies | Lothian Health Service Archive | research methods | resources | subject guides | yewno As part of the 2022 Dissertation Festival, running from 7th-18th March and facilitated by the Academic Support Librarians, Digital Skills and IAD teams, I was invited to attend an online …Continue reading →

The Man who Went to the Moon and the Woman who Helped Bring him to Langholm: A Tale of Two Leaps TAGS: 20th century archives | cultural history | moon landing | social history I’ve now been working with the EERC Regional Ethnology of Scotland Study since 2011 and for the CRC-RESP Archive Project since 2018.  My jobs have allowed me to be involved …Continue reading →

“A Beautiful Way to Remember” – Digitising the LHSA’s HIV/AIDS Collections TAGS: AIDS Crisis | AIDS Memorial Quilt | Bookeye | HIV | LGBTQIA+ | Lothian Health Service Archive | NHS | scanning At the beginning of this year, I started in my role as the Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service’s new Digitisation Assistant. As part of the team responsible for providing the main …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh’s new Research Data Management Policy TAGS: policy | Research Data Following a year-long consultation with research committees and other stakeholders, a new RDM Policy (www.ed.ac.uk/is/research-data-policy) has replaced the landmark 2011 policy, authored by former Digital Curation Centre Director, Chris Rusbridge, …Continue reading →

New Research Data Stewards in post TAGS: research support | staff Very soon we will sadly say goodbye to Gina Geffers, who, along with Sam Hillman, have become our first Research Data Steward veterans. But we are very pleased to welcome …Continue reading →