Queer Photography Archive TAGS: Edinburgh Women's Liberation Newsletter | EWLN | High Quality Photography | LGBTQIA+ | Lothian Health Service Archive | Queer | Zines For the first few months of 2023, I have been using medium format photography to document a collection of zines, posters, photographs and booklets from the Lothian Health Service Archive. …Continue reading →

Law Library summer opening & support Now that teaching and exams are officially over for the year you may be in the fortunate position of having a long summer ahead of you away from the University. …Continue reading →

Appraisal Made Easy (If Only…): A Day in the Life of an Appraisal Archivist TAGS: appraisal | Archives | university archives | University of Edinburgh Welcome to our Day in the Life Series, where each of our new team members will give you an insight into life behind the scenes at the University of Edinburgh’s …Continue reading →

Student job opportunity! TAGS: employment | Gale | Gale Ambassadors | jobs | primary sources | students Interested in paid business experience with a global publisher? The Gale Ambassador Library Support Program may be just what you’re looking for! The deadline for applications has been extended, so …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2023: in summary TAGS: EORC This is a guest post by the Library’s new Citizen Science Engagement Officer, Neil Coleman. All of the materials from the conference may be found on the Edinburgh Open Research …Continue reading →

New! East African Newspapers TAGS: 20th century | 21st century | African Studies | Archives | databases | east africa | Ethiopia | Kenya | Newspapers | online resources | Uganda Following a successful trial earlier this semester at the request of staff from the Centre of African Studies I’m happy to let you know the Library now has access to …Continue reading →

Would you like to be the next LexisNexis Student Associate? Each year our major databases recruit for a new Student Associate to fill the role of training and peer support. LexisNexis have announced they are currently looking for a student …Continue reading →

Critical Approaches to Libraries (CALC) 2023 TAGS: antiracism | conference | critical information skills | Diversity | information literacy | Library | online resources I attended the CALC Conference on 24th and 25th May and can thoroughly recommend this annual event to other professionals interested in critical librarianship. The gathering was welcoming and introduced …Continue reading →

Books, Boxes and Bugs! A day in the life of a Collections Care Technician at the Centre for Research Collections TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | collections | conservation | Exhibition | Integrated pest managment | Library | Museums | rehousing | technician Welcome to our new Day in the Life Series! The Conservation and Collections Management team recently recruited three new members of staff. In this series each of our new team …Continue reading →

The Book Surgery Part 2: Bringing Everything Together TAGS: book conservation | paper conservation | Royal Dick Vet School | Training In this blog, Project Conservator Mhairi Boyle her second day of in-situ book conservation training she has undertaken with Book Conservator Caroline Scharfenberg (ACR). Mhairi previously undertook a Maternity Cover …Continue reading →