Tag It, Find It!: Pop Up Library on tour TAGS: art | metadata | pop up library | sweets | Tagging Last week, Pop Up Library packed its bags for a three day tour of the university campus, bringing paintings from the art collection, our metadata tagging game and a 5kg …Continue reading →

Downtime Alert – E-Journals TAGS: Access alert | downtime | e-journals | ejnls | SFX At 10pm tonight, our e-journals will become unavailable for about 1 hour via the e-journal A-Z links, Searcher and the catalogue.  This maintenance work is expected to resolve recent instability …Continue reading →

Google Cultural Institute I was lucky enough to attend the Europeana loCloud Hackathon at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris, on February 11th. While I was too late to actually do any hacking …Continue reading →

Trial – Film Industry Data TAGS: Academic Rights Press | database | Film Industry Data We have trial access to Film Industry Data from Academic Rights Press until the 9th March. Film Industry Data enables the gathering of information about film trends and research into the …Continue reading →

Recycling at the Annexe (It’s easy bein’ green) TAGS: Annexe | Dunbar | Estates | Green | John Muir | Library Annexe | Litter | Recycling | University of Edinburgh | Waste We’re happy to report that the Library Annexe has joined University’s (recycling) efforts to make our planet a wee bit more sustainable. Every little step in the right direction helps, …Continue reading →

SPS have top Resource List of semester one! TAGS: reading list | Resource Lists @ Edinburgh | Sociology Sociology 1A had the most used Resource List of semester one, 2014/15, with an average of 67.3 visits per student. Find out what the course organisers, tutors and students thought …Continue reading →

Tag It, Find It! TAGS: Art Collection | collections | Edinburgh College of Art | fine art | gaming | ILW | metadata | Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library | Tagging Pop-up Library is back for a limited time only in Innovative Learning Week (ILW) and we want you to say what you see! Combining two of our most popular Pop-up Library …Continue reading →

New donation of Scottish poetry Tessa Ransford, poet activist and founder of the Scottish Poetry Library, has gifted to the University of Edinburgh her personal collection of poetry pamphlets. This is a major new acquisition …Continue reading →

The Foundation of Anatomy: Class List of Alexander Monro (primus) TAGS: Alexander Monro primus (1697-1767) | alumni | Anatomy | Archives | staff | students From time to time we ‘rediscover’ items in our collections.  It’s not that we didn’t know we had them; rather that they have not come to anyone’s specific attention within …Continue reading →

Trial – Gregory of Nyssa Online (comprising Gregorii Nysseni Opera Online and Lexicon Gregorianum Online) TAGS: Biblical Studies | Classical Greek | Gregorii Nysseni Opera | Gregory of Nyssa | Lexicon Gregorianum We have trial access to Gregory of Nyssa Online (comprising Gregorii Nysseni Opera Online and Lexicon Gregorianum Online) until the 25th February. Gregorii Nysseni Opera Online is the ultimate online …Continue reading →