Less than one week to go! With less than a week to go before our first ever Knowledge Exchange Week begins, we are getting excited about meeting all of our participants. Our programme for the week …Continue reading →

DATA-X Workshop 2 We are holding our second DATA-X workshop on Wednesday 15 June at the James Clerk Maxwell Building, Room 3217 and are inviting PhD students and technologists to come along and …Continue reading →

Soft Furnishing Upholstery Works A number of soft seating areas within the library will undergo upholstery work during the summer – these include stools within the study pods on the ground floor, 1st floor …Continue reading →

Study Pods – Audio Visual Upgrade Over the summer, we will also be upgrading the audio-visual kit in the Student Study Pods on the ground and first floor of the Main Library. The refresh will increase …Continue reading →

PC Upgrades – Main Library We have started on a programme to upgrade all PCs on floors 3 & 4 to new HP EliteOne 800 G2 Models. This work will continue over the summer.  The …Continue reading →

The Battle of Jutland – 100 years on TAGS: Battle of Jutland | German Fleet | Grand Fleet | High Seas Fleet | My boy Jack | Navy | Rudyard Kipling | Scapa Flow | Sea Warfare | World War I | WW1 This week sees the hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Jutland, the largest and most important naval engagement of the First World War, and also a particularly Scottish event, as …Continue reading →

Main Library Study Spaces project blog goes live During summer 2016 358 additional study spaces will be created in the Main Library.  This blog will be updated weekly with information about what is happening in the building. We will let …Continue reading →

DataVault presentation and poll The DataVault has been out and about recently: first to the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) in Amsterdam in February, and more recently to the first meeting of the new …Continue reading →

George, in Focus: Hidden Text Revealed TAGS: George Focus | hidden text | Imaging techniques | Infra-red | MA-XRF | Photoshop | Recueil de Desseins Ridicules In this week’s blog, Special Collections Conservator, Emily, discusses how she is using different imaging techniques to reveal concealed script. I was recently challenged with a seemingly impossible task in …Continue reading →

PhD thesis digitisation project begins! 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 →