LibQual iPad mini winners Congratulations to Robin Cathcart and Christina Mackie who won the two iPad minis we offered as prizes for completing the recent LibQual+ survey. Receiving her iPad mini, Robin thanked the …Continue reading →

Electronic Laboratory Notebooks – help or hindrance to academic research? On the 30 October 2013 the University of Edinburgh (UoE) organised what I believe to be the first University wide meeting on Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN), and allowed a number …Continue reading →

Collect.Ed Exhibition: Curiosities from the University’s Collections TAGS: Exhibitions | Library “How strange this mass of ancient treasures, mementos of past pains and pleasures.” Charlotte Brontë Opening: 6th December 2013 | Where: Exhibition Gallery, Main Library, George Square | Closing: 1st …Continue reading →

RDM & Cornell University I’ve been fortunate to have been given the opportunity to take up a secondment at the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) as Data Services Librarian, the primary …Continue reading →

Complete the Library survey TAGS: feedback | LibQUAL | Library | survey If you have been randomly selected to participate in the survey, you will have now received two emails containing a link to the survey. Please take 15 minutes to complete  …Continue reading →

Open Access Futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences Last Thursday I attended a particularly interesting session on Open Access Futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Senate House in London.  Organised by the LSE Public Policy Group …Continue reading →

Open [access, data, source]: science & data in the 21st century Organised by Jo Young and Graham Steel of the Informatics Forum to mark Open Access Week this event drew a diverse audience from inside and outside the University. In his …Continue reading →

Science as an open enterprise – Prof. Geoffrey Boulton As part of Open Access Week, the Data Library and Scholarly Communications teams in IS hosted a lecture by emeritus Professor Geoffrey Boulton drawing upon his study for the Royal Society: …Continue reading →

RDM reflection – finishing the data life cycle Research Data Management and I were a chance acquaintance. I was asked to stand in for one of the steering group despite having some very tenuous qualifications for the role. …Continue reading →

New Book Display: Black History Month TAGS: Black history | Black History Month | history; Main Library | new books During  October, the Main Library have been displaying books which have been donated to the Library by the University’s African Caribbean Society (in association with EUSA Global). There are approximately …Continue reading →