I: ‘The Times’ History and Encyclopaedia of the War – its early issues and ambition TAGS: The Times History and Encyclopædia of the War ‘…AN ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT CONTEST NOW IN PROGRESS…’ Printed and published by The Times newspaper, The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War was a British weekly periodical first …Continue reading →

Planning for the REF at Surrey: a visit from the LOCH project The REF Open Access Planning workshop, which took place in Manchester in December 2015, was oversubscribed. This was quite disappointing for many of us who were in the process of …Continue reading →

New Furniture Arriving We are almost there – thanks for your continued patience!  New furniture for the 358 additional study spaces will start to arrive next week – please see below for details. …Continue reading →

Destructive scanning of duplicate theses TAGS: destructive | digitisation | Kodak | Theses Hello, I’m Pete Marsden one of the digitisation assistants working out at the Gyle in West Edinburgh, and this is what I get up to…….. Here is a sneak peek …Continue reading →

Evening Floor Closures As part of the ongoing electrical enabling works to accommodate the new study desks as part of the library refurbishment works, our contractors have scheduled a series of essential power …Continue reading →

Desk Top Power Modules Part of the refurbishment works to create new study areas will also involve an upgrade to the existing desk top power modules on a number of new and existing desks.  …Continue reading →

Data Carpentry & Software Carpentry workshops The Research Data Service hosted back to back 2-day workshops in the Main Library this week, run by the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) to train University of Edinburgh researchers in …Continue reading →

Main Library Summer Improvements 2016 – Update 18th August Work is continuing in the Main Library on a programme of works to bring significant improvements for library users through increasing the number of study spaces by 350 and providing …Continue reading →

More DataVault presentations It’s been a busy summer for the DataVault, with further presentations taking place. First up was a short trip to Dublin to the Open Repositories 2016 conference in June. The …Continue reading →

Wartime service honours of Dr William Aldren Turner (1864-1945)… Devised a management strategy for shell shock… Honoured by Belgium and Britain TAGS: Belgium | British Red Cross | King Albert Medal | OBE | Shell shock | William Aldren Turner EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL STUDENT… SERVED WITH ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL  CORPS (RAMC)… BECAME ADVISOR ON ‘WAR NEUROSIS’ AND SHELL SHOCK TO THE BRITISH WAR OFFICE… William Aldren Turner was born in …Continue reading →