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 →

Warm wishes from your Law Librarian TAGS: law library | library building | library services | news | old college | research | resources | update Working in the Law Library today has been like night and day since the study space scramble of last week, and that’s because most students have now finished up for …Continue reading →

From Tantruming Cobots to Stephen Hawking at Work- CHDS at the AHFAP 2022 Conference TAGS: AHFAP | archive | cobots | digital library | digitisation | heritage | Library | National Museum of Scotland | photography | scanning | The Association For Historical And Fine Art Photography Conference | University of Edinburgh Library   The Association for Historical and Fine Art Photogapher’s (AHFAP) conference is always a highlight of the year and, alongside 2and3D Photography at the Rijksmuseum and Archiving, it has become …Continue reading →

Student Interns Capture ‘The Student’ TAGS: Bookeye | Edinburgh | Internship | newspaper | scanning | Student Journalism | students | The Student In February 2022, PhD students Vesna Curlic and Ash Charlton began their digitisation internships in partnership with the University of Edinburgh’s Library and University Collections and the Centre for Data, …Continue reading →

My Experience as a DAMS Metadata Intern TAGS: DAMS | Digital Asset Management | Digital Preservation | Internship | metadata | students My name is Muminah and I’m about to enter my final year of studying Computer Science and Maths. For the past couple of months I’ve worked as a Digital Asset …Continue reading →

American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside The library has access to a new collection from JSTOR. American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside. The first newspaper published within a prison by an incarcerated person was …Continue reading →

The power of preprints: an omicron case study Much has been recently been written about the value of preprints which facilitate rapid and open dissemination of research findings to a global audience (if you’d like to read more …Continue reading →