P6 Visitors from St Mary’s Primary TAGS: school visits | SOC2-02a A few weeks ago the Library hosted two visits from the two P6 classes of St Mary’s school.  Their topic was “Scotland’s Timeline” (I can interpret historical evidence from a range …Continue reading →

Research Data Management – Workshop in Japan TAGS: Research Data Management In November I was privileged to be invited to Japan by the National Committee for the Promotion of Institutional Repositories, to speak at their meeting being held as part of …Continue reading →

Merry AnneXMAS! TAGS: Annexe | Christmas | Edinburgh College of Art | Library Annexe | Maurice Sendak | Merry Christmas | Punch | University of Edinburgh Merry Christmas from Edinburgh’s Library Annexe! Here are a few festive images from some of the books that can be found within our general lending collections:       Images …Continue reading →

December E-Book News TAGS: American History | American Literature | art | Berg Fashion Library | British History | Business & Management | Cambridge Books Online | Classical Studies | Computer Science | Dawsonera | Dictionaries | Drama and Theater | e-books | Earth and Environmental Sciences | EBL | Ebsco | Economics | education | Elsevier | English Literature | European and World Literature | European History | film | Fine Arts | General Science | Geography | History Cross Discipline | History Other Regions | Humanities | Language and Linguistics | language reference works | Law | Life Sciences | mass communication | mathematics | media | Multidisciplinary | music | MyILibrary | Oxford Reference Online | Oxford University Press | Philosophy | Politics and international relations | psychology | religion | Science Direct | Social science | Sociology We have additions to the following e-book packages. Berg Fashion Library – We have added 70 e-books to our catalogue in December.  See a list of the Berg e-books (currently …Continue reading →

Google Glass, gaming and Gallimaufry TAGS: gallimaufry | gamification | Google Glass | technology Last Monday was no typical day at the office: after an early start at the Imperial War Museum exploring its First World War exhibition with Google Glass, I finished the …Continue reading →

Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics Online – new e-resource TAGS: Brill | database | Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics | greek | Language and Linguistics | reference works Following a successful trial, we have now purchased the Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics Online The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (EAGLL) is a unique work …Continue reading →

Google Scholar – who is referencing us? This is a guest blog post from Laura Keizer, one of our volunteers working in the Centre for Research Collections. Archives are delightful places. Working in such a place regularly …Continue reading →

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online – additional titles TAGS: Dictionaries | e-books | Oxford University Press We have added 3 further dictionaries to our Oxford Language Dictionaries Online package. Arabic Chinese Russian The Chinese and Russian dictionaries are located on the original OLDO platform and a …Continue reading →

Music Online Premium Service – updated content TAGS: Alexander Street Press | music | Music Online Our Music Online Premium Service has been updated in the following collections: Classical Music Library  – CLMU: 808 albums, 11,701 tracks – This update includes titles from labels such as …Continue reading →

Weekend with the Gallimaufry: Edinburgh University images added to Metadata Games Tiltfactor and the University of Edinburgh, Library and University Collections are excited to announce the addition of over 2,500 images from the University of Edinburgh to the Metadata Games platform. This collection, …Continue reading →