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Hill and Adamson Collection: an insight into Edinburgh’s past TAGS: | | | My name is Phoebe Kirkland, I am an MSc East Asian Studies student, and for the last 4 months, I have been a Digital Collections Assistant working on digitising and …Continue reading →

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On trial: The Scotsman Archive, 1951-2002 TAGS: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Thanks to a request from staff in History, the Library currently has trial access to the newly launched extension years for The Scotsman Historical Archive from ProQuest Historical Newspapers. While …Continue reading →

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Highlights from The Witness TAGS: | | | | We’ve been working on digitising The Witness for quite some time now. Here’s a little background information from our previous post on the publication: ‘A twice weekly newspaper, The Witness …Continue reading →

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Knowledge Exchange Week 2024 – Reflections TAGS: | | | | | | Last month, team members Marian and Miranda attended Knowledge Exchange Week, hosted by the University of Edinburgh. This was the fifth time the event had been held, and the theme …Continue reading →

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RESP Outreach Intern – January TAGS: | | | | Written by: James Rice, RESP Outreach Intern Going into the new year, January was a particularly important period of my internship that saw me shaping what I hoped to achieve through …Continue reading →

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Skene, Societies and Swedish Serendipity TAGS: | | | | | | | | | | | How often do you walk past a 1000 year old rune stone?  The answer is every day, if you work or study near the Main Library! Earlier this year I …Continue reading →

Looking Ahead – Our 2024 Project Preview TAGS: | | | | | | | | | | | | I began working with the Cultural Heritage Digitisation Services team last November, as a Digitisation Operator. Before joining the team, I was digitising plant specimens in the Herbarium of the …Continue reading →

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From Plagues to Progress: Looking at A Century of Edinburgh’s Public Health TAGS: | | | | | Over the last few months, our team has been working on digitising the Lothian Health Service Archive’s collection of Annual Public Health Reports for the City of Edinburgh. Comprising of …Continue reading →

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Student Interns Capture ‘The Student’ TAGS: | | | | | | | In February 2022, PhD students Vesna Curlic and Ash Charlton began their digitisation internships in partnership with the University of Edinburgh’s Library and University Collections and the Centre for Data, …Continue reading →

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Default utility Image Cataloguing the private papers of Archibald Hunter Campbell: A Journey Through Correspondence My name is Pauline Vincent, I am a student in my last year of a...
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