Warm Wishes from your Law Librarians TAGS: law library | library services | news | old college | opening hours | update With the exam period almost finished, it is time for all of us to get a well deserved break from studies, assignments and work in general. The University will be …Continue reading →

Resource Lists: What do you think? We want to know! TAGS: book token | feedback | focus group | library services | Resource Lists | student participation We’re in the midst of gathering feedback about Resource List use within the School of Law and would like to invite our students to get involved in a short focus …Continue reading →

Looking Ahead – Our 2024 Project Preview TAGS: CHDS | Cultural Heritage Digitisation | Digital Imaging Unit | Edinburgh | Esther Inglis | High Quality Photography | LGBTQIA+ | Lothian Health Service Archive | LUNA | Lyell Notebooks | Scotland | Sir Charles Lyell | The Witness Newspaper I began working with the Cultural Heritage Digitisation Services team last November, as a Digitisation Operator. Before joining the team, I was digitising plant specimens in the Herbarium of the …Continue reading →

Academic writing help: Royal Literary Fund Fellow TAGS: library training | research | tips | Training | writing Are you a student who is struggling with academic writing? Are you a staff member who knows of a student who isn’t quite getting the hang of writing at University …Continue reading →

Library Tours for Staff 2024 TAGS: helpdesk | law library | library services | library training | staff | tips | tours Are you a new or existing staff member who would like to find out more about the University’s libraries? Join an Academic Support Librarian on a 20 to 30-minute in-person …Continue reading →

AHFAP 2023: A Snapshot TAGS: AHFAP | Barbican Centre | CHDS | digitisation | photography | The Association For Historical And Fine Art Photography Conference At the beginning of November, I was given the opportunity to attend the Association of Historical and Fine Art Photography (AHFAP) Conference 2023 at the Barbican Centre in London. The …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 →

Would you like to be the next LexisNexis Student Associate? Each year our major databases recruit for a new Student Associate to fill the role of training and peer support. LexisNexis have announced they are currently looking for a student …Continue reading →

Bloomsbury Professional Ebooks: formerly on LexisLibrary TAGS: course materials | databases | ebooks | exams | Legal databases | Lexis+ | LexisLibrary | online resources | reading list | research | resources We want to alert students to a change we’re dealing with regarding Bloomsbury Professional ebooks which were formerly offered on the LexisLibrary platform.. Unfortunately going forward these will no longer …Continue reading →