Staff Scholarship Scheme funds Digital Preservation course Last year I completed the Centre for Archive and Information Studies (CAIS) course on the Management and Preservation of Digital Records. The module, which is one of several Masters-level CPD …Continue reading →

PhD thesis digitisation project begins! TAGS: digitisation | Library Annexe | Project | Theses Stock take completed, equipment purchased and staff in place: the digitisation of the Library’s PhD thesis collection has begun! In January 2016 we secured funding to complete the digitisation of …Continue reading →

Wikipedia: #1Lib1Ref campaign Research and Learning Services took part in the #1Lib1Ref campaign this morning, celebrating Wikipedia’s 15th birthday by adding 32 new citations to the online encyclopaedia! Many Wikipedia articles have a …Continue reading →

Our most popular digital images of 2015 (5 – 1) Following yesterday’s publication of numbers 10 – 6, here are our top five digital images from 2015! 5. Mount Stuart, Bute, Floor Plan, 1879: EC.110 (new entry) Rowand Anderson’s floor …Continue reading →

Our most popular digital images of 2015 (10 – 6) Below are the most viewed images (numbers 10-6) from our online images database (http://images.is.ed.ac.uk). Check back in to tomorrow to see numbers 5-1! 10. Native Americans riding a sea monster, …Continue reading →

1,000 Science and Engineering PhD theses added to ERA TAGS: digitisation | ERA | kb | theses. thesis In the Library’s largest ever one-off digitisation project, L&UC have been working with RedRock, a scanning company and member of the supported business framework, to digitise and make available on-line …Continue reading →

Project makeover TAGS: JISC | JISC Data Vault Now that the Data Vault project has received second round finding, we thought it was time for a makeover! We’ve been working hard with our designers, and now have a …Continue reading →

2016 Library and University Collections calendar: Cities of the World TAGS: Calendar The 2016 Library & University Collections calendar is out now, offering a fascinating insight into how the world looked at the dawn of the modern era. Featuring maps, city plans …Continue reading →

Fabienne Hess: Hits and Misses The exhibition Hits and Misses by Swiss London-based artist Fabienne Hess opened in the Talbot Rice Gallery on Thursday 31st July. Please try and catch it; it’s on till 3rd …Continue reading →

Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School – days 3, 4 and 5 TAGS: DHOxSS | IIIF | Oxford | TEI Apologies for the delay! Here are  my highlights from the final three days of this year’s Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School: – On Wednesday we learned all about the Text …Continue reading →