AHFAP 2023: A Snapshot TAGS: AHFAP | Barbican Centre | CHDS | digitisation | photography | The Association For Historical And Fine Art Photography Conference At the beginning of November, I was given the opportunity to attend the Association of Historical and Fine Art Photography (AHFAP) Conference 2023 at the Barbican Centre in London. The …Continue reading →

Lingerie, Giant Frisbees and Heavy Lifting: Tackling the ITI Collection at Edinburgh University TAGS: appraisal | Archives | Computing | information technology By Abigail Hartley, Appraisal Archivist and Archives Collections Manager Several months ago, my colleague Jasmine Hide and I wrote two introductory posts about our new roles and what they entailed. This …Continue reading →

Student Research Rooms in HCA TAGS: Archaeology | book collections | Books | classics | history Today’s blog post is a guest post from Clare Wilson, SRR Co-ordinator, about the superb book collections available to staff and students from HCA in the Student Research Rooms. Here …Continue reading →

Women in STEM studies and careers: Professor Beth Biller and Dr Mary Brück at the University of Edinburgh Ash Mowat is one of our volunteers in the Civic Engagement Team. Ash has been looking into the career paths of two women in science: Professor Beth Biller, currently Professor …Continue reading →

JIL Webinar: Writing about Information Literacy (report) TAGS: academic writing | critical information skills | information literacy | journal club | Library | publication As well as bringing you news and updates from the library, we like to use this blog to report on some of the Continued Professional Development activities we get up …Continue reading →

The story behind the journal: Medicine Anthropology Theory TAGS: Diamond Open Access | Library publishing | open access The DOAJ has recently been celebrating 20 years of service. As part of their celebrations they have been interviewing editors from some of the journals they index. We are thrilled …Continue reading →

Charles Lyell’s Books In his Scientific Notebook 1, dated March – April 1825, Charles Lyell lists things to take on his first geological tour, designed to gather the evidence for his first book. In …Continue reading →

My journey in Edinburgh TAGS: Visitor Guest blog post by Dr Raj Kumar Bhardwaj, Chief Librarian at St. Stephen’s College – University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. About myself I am Dr Raj Kumar Bhardwaj, Chief …Continue reading →

Five reasons you should use LibSmart to prep for your assignments TAGS: assignments | critical information skills | digital skills | DiscoverEd | information literacy | Library | LibSmart | online resources | research | resources Here we are midway through the first semester, and you may start to feel like you should be looking ahead to your end of semester assessments. Often students feel a …Continue reading →

Did you know…? Study Space Traffic Lights TAGS: helpdesk | law library | old college | study spaces We’ve recently heard from students and staff that they would love for some kind of indicator of how busy the Law Library is when it comes to finding a study …Continue reading →