Behind the Scenes at the NLS TAGS: engagement | KEW | Library We have had a busy day today kicking off with a trip to the University Collections Facility at South Gyle where Hannah Mateer gave a tour of the facility and …Continue reading →

The Knowledge of Dance TAGS: Dancing | engagement | KEW | Library Following a busy first two days in the library the Knowledge Exchangers let off some steam on Tuesday night at the The Ceilidh Club at Summerhall. There was some very …Continue reading →

Visit to the Centre for Research Collections TAGS: KEW | Library | Museums | Special Collections On Day 2 of KEW, we welcomed the participants to the Centre for Research Collections (CRC). The CRC is the main point of access for the University’s heritage and cultural …Continue reading →

Sample Furniture for New Study Areas We are going to locate an assortment of different study desks and chairs which will form part of the new study areas being created later this Summer on the first …Continue reading →

Student and Community Engagement TAGS: engagement | KEW | Library | Museums How can libraries, archives, and museums reach out to students, get people interested in their collections, and engage with the wider public? Sometimes it takes doing something completely unexpected. Student …Continue reading →

‘In a World full of infinite choice, context – not content – is King’ TAGS: Archives | cataloguing | context | metadata | standards Yesterday we discussed contextual cataloguing in the group. By this I mean creating meaningful catalogues with interconnections, or a web of relationships so that a collection or item is put …Continue reading →

Group Study Pods on the Ground Floor NOTICE: Works Underway   Works to the group study pods on the ground floor will take place week beginning 20th June.  you will still have access to the study pods on the …Continue reading →

Main Library Foyer How do you use the library? The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library Albert Einstein We are proud of the services we …Continue reading →

Welcome to KEW! And we’re off!  The Knowledge Exchange Week is now officially underway! It was my pleasure to extend an official welcome and greeting from Edinburgh University Library to the fifteen delegates …Continue reading →

Twenty’s Plenty: DataShare v2.1 Upload Upgrade We have upgraded DataShare (to v2.1) to enable HTML5 resumable upload. This means depositors can now use the user-friendly web deposit interface to upload numerous files at once via drag’n’drop. …Continue reading →