RESPIRE Fellowship TAGS: conference | open data | open science This is a guest blog post from Tapas K Mohanty, Informatics & Data Science Liaison Officer for the RESPIRE project, who recently dropped by for a visit. Tapas, who is …Continue reading →

Highlights from The Witness TAGS: CHDS | Edinburgh | photography | scanning | The Witness Newspaper We’ve been working on digitising The Witness for quite some time now. Here’s a little background information from our previous post on the publication: ‘A twice weekly newspaper, The Witness …Continue reading →

AI vs the Imago Dei : views from US theological libraries TAGS: artificial intelligence | critical information skills | Diversity | Library | Philosophy | students | theology On Tuesday 18 June, I flew half way around the world to attend the Atla conference in Long Beach, California. There were two questions that Atla delegates asked me that …Continue reading →

Grand debut into Heritage: A Peek into my Collections Care Assistant Role Isabela Tapia Hernandez The Collections Care Assistant role was created for our students to explore the cultural heritage sector through employment and support their career aspirations post-graduation. This is the …Continue reading →

Trial access to Japan Digital Archives Center online collections The Library has trial access to four online collections from the Japan Digital Archives Center: Records of Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office (CIRO): Minro Shigaki Papers Online Prefectural Statistics Online …Continue reading →

Reflections on a Journey in Conservation: My Time as a Collections Care Assistant Back in March we welcomed our new Student Collections Care Assistants; Abigail Miskin, Ella Joyce and Isabela Tapia Hernandez. Four months on and it is time to say goodbye and …Continue reading →

It’s audit time! TAGS: Collections Management | Edinburgh University Art Collections Anyone who has attended a meeting, had a conversation in the corridor, or bumped into me in one of our stores, knows that one of my main talking points for …Continue reading →