Building History As part of our role here, Malcolm and I have taken many photographs of the Main Library. Over the years this has built up an archive of born digital images …Continue reading →

Researchers – what’s new for you from the Library TAGS: open access | post-2014 REF “Researchers – what’s new for you from the Library” is an event being held in the Murray Library at the King’s Buildings to highlight some recent developments in Library services …Continue reading →

8000th full text item added to the Edinburgh Research Archive TAGS: Internship | open access To round off the week we’re delighted to have just archived our 8000th full text item in the Edinburgh Research Archive. The item to receive this prestigious accolade is a …Continue reading →

The Piper Magazine Photography For many years the Digital Imaging Unit have been the primary photographers for The Piper Magazine. The Piper is The Friends of Edinburgh University Library twice-yearly illustrated newsletter. The DIU …Continue reading →

International Earth Day TAGS: open access | PhD | world earth day Tuesday 22nd April has been designated by the UN as International Mother Earth Day. It is a day of action where people from all over the planet do something on behalf of …Continue reading →

New Images & New Collection Publically Available Last week we were very pleased to make 864 new images available to the public. In the DIU we had recently completed a batch of nearly 1000 high quality images …Continue reading →

Volunteer work at the Digital Imaging Unit TAGS: Adamson | Hill | photography The Centre for Research Collections is a remarkable resource for students at Edinburgh University, not only for research purposes, but also for experience working with collections.  I am an MSc …Continue reading →

Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography Conference TAGS: Digital Imaging | DIU The Digital Imaging Unit attended the “Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography” conference for the first time in November at the end of last year. The conference was hosted …Continue reading →

Happy New Year! Have you been doing too much of this recently? And started the year with a splitting headache… Or maybe you got stranded by the winter storms…. And had to be …Continue reading →

Library and University 2014 calendar TAGS: Calendar The new Library and University 2014 calendar is now on sale. This year’s theme is Bygone Edinburgh, with all images coming from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. Highlights include …Continue reading →