Time Traveller: Charles Lyell at Work Free exhibition in the Main Library Exhibition Gallery (ground floor), Open from 27th October 2023 – 30th March 2024, Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm  Over the last few months, …Continue reading →

It’s Friday the 13th! It’s that time of the year when the leaves start changing, the air gets cooler, and I get creeped out by works in the collection… As the Art Collection is …Continue reading →

Meeting the challenges facing ecclesiastical libraries TAGS: Divinity | partnership working | rare books BETH are a European group of national organisations representing librarians working in theological college, seminary, Church and monastic libraries. Solo librarians or librarians working in small teams are characteristic of …Continue reading →

How to find your way around the vast portfolio of Digital Research Resources  TAGS: Digital research Guest blog post by Dr André de Araújo Vieira,                                            …Continue reading →

The University of Edinburgh Art Collection: Irene G. Thomson, Anne Marie Gilmore and Gwen Hardie Ash Mowat is one of our volunteers in the Civic Engagement Team. Inspired by Katy Hessel’s ‘The Story of Art’, Ash has been looking into the work of three female artists whose …Continue reading →

Research Data Support team and DCC to host Skills4EOSC Fellow TAGS: open science University of Edinburgh has been chosen as one of 12 European institutions to host sponsored short secondments for data professionals in Open Science, as part of the Skills4EOSC Horizon Europe …Continue reading →

New to the Library: Digital archives on gender and sexuality TAGS: 20th century | Africa | anthropology | Archives | Australia | databases | gender studies | history | LGBT+ studies | LGBTQ history | primary source | sexology | social history | United States I’m happy to let you know that over the summer the Library purchased two digital archive collections that will be of interest to students and staff looking at gender and …Continue reading →

Pocketbooks from the Past TAGS: AHFAP | Bookeye | cobots | Geology and Geologists | Lyell Notebooks | Sir Charles Lyell Last month I started working at the Cultural Heritage and Digitisation Service (CHDS) as a Digitisation Operator. Before joining the team, I was working on a large digitisation project at …Continue reading →

Welcome to Week One! TAGS: databases | information skills | Law libraries | law library | Legal databases | library services | library training | mediahopper | online resources | PhD | postgraduate | research | resources | Training | undergraduate | videos | welcome Hello, and if you’re a new student joining us for the 2023/24 academic year we look forward to meeting you in the Law Library soon! We are Anna Richards and …Continue reading →

LibSmart: All students now automatically enrolled! TAGS: exam prep | information literacy | LibSmart | online resources | reading lists | research | students | studying | welcome We’re very excited to let you know that from this year onwards all students at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level will automatically be enrolled in our LibSmart online information literacy course! …Continue reading →