Honorary Degree for Sheila Fleet TAGS: Edinburgh College of Art | graduation | jewellery | Sheila Fleet As you may have noticed from our blog and Twitter posts over the past couple of weeks, we’ve had a few exciting graduations happening at the University of Edinburgh. Here’s …Continue reading →

Happy Graduation Day! TAGS: Emma Smith | graduation | Graham Dey | Sheila Fleet   Today we have lots of celebrations as a number of alumni, colleagues and friends celebrate graduations. Among them are Graham Dey who was Welfare Officer and music guru at …Continue reading →

Open Repositories 2014 Last week I travelled to Helsinki, Finland, for the Open Repositories 2014 Conference, which had more than 450 attendees. The five days whizzed by with so much going on and …Continue reading →

New Zealand Special Collections The New Zealand House Special Collection has now been fully catalogued by our Cataloguing Interns. It contains over 200 fascinating and rare items, dating from 1773 onwards.  These books come …Continue reading →

International Library Staff Exchange Week 2014 TAGS: Exchange week | Library Last week I was fortunate enough to have been able to participate in Helsinki University Library’s ISEW Library programme which ran from 2-6 June, 2014 The week was aimed at …Continue reading →

A secret agent exposed… TAGS: 007 | BigTam | Edinburgh College of Art | Sean Connery As I am told by every taxi driver who ever gives me a lift home, Edinburgh’s Fountainbridge area is famous for being the childhood home of Sean Connery. But, you …Continue reading →

Collections.ed.ac.uk Launched This week, we launched a new service called Collections.ed.ac.uk, which you (staff, students and the wider public) can use to search the University’s rare and unique collections. Four collections are …Continue reading →

‘The object of art is to give life shape’: Festival of Museums Fun! TAGS: Alan Davie | Archives | art | Collage | Edinburgh College of Art | Eduardo Paolozzi | festival of museums On Saturday we hosted a talk and create workshop at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) with Drawing and Painting Lecturer Joan Smith. This was to celebrate the 1940s for the …Continue reading →

Meet Holly, Our Skills for the Future Placement TAGS: Archives | placement | printing | skills for the future | Typography My name is Holly and I am currently on a two week placement at ECA Archives as part of my Skills for the Future Collections Trainee programme at RCAHMS. I …Continue reading →

Casting in Retrograde TAGS: cast collection | Deborah Marshall | Degree Show | Edinburgh College of Art | students Deborah Marshall is a final year Sculpture student at Edinburgh College of Art. Deborah discusses her work for the ECA Degree Show 2014, which investigates the Cast Collection.  Casting in Retrograde – a diptych, …Continue reading →