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 →

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 →

New resource from Past Masters: The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953 TAGS: electronic resource | Library | Philosophy | PPLS | psychology The Library has purchased a further electronic resource from the Past Masters series in the shape of the collected works of the American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer, John Dewey. 

Library Digital Development investigate IIIF TAGS: collections | Development | IIIF | images | Library | library labs Quick caveat: this post is a partner to the one Claire Knowles has written about our signing up to the IIIF Consortium, so the explanation of the acronym will not …Continue reading →

New – PPLS Librarian blog! TAGS: academic support librarian | Books | English Language | Language Sciences | Library | linguistics | Philosophy | PPLS | psychology The PPLS Librarian Blog This is the inaugural post to the new PPLS Librarian blog, one of a range of blogs – both general and service specific – from Edinburgh University Library. It is …Continue reading →

Bridging Gaps at the British Museum TAGS: collections | Conferences | Development | Digital | Library The overwhelming setting of the British Museum played host to this year’s Museums Computer Group “Museums and the Web” Conference, and as usual, a big turnout from museums institutions all …Continue reading →

LibQUAL+ 2015 TAGS: LibQUAL | Library | survey During October and November (19 October- 15 November) the Library will take part in the LibQUAL+ survey. Complete the survey and you could win a Blackwell’s or High Street voucher …Continue reading →

Where’s Dolly? Another metadata game TAGS: crowdsourcing | dolly the sheep | Library | library labs | Metadata Games | roslin | science on a plate | Towards Dolly The Towards Dolly project, showcasing research from genetics at the Roslin Institute, has helped surface lots of interesting material within the library, not least at the current exhibition. One of …Continue reading →

Do it like they do on the DiscoverEd channel TAGS: Annexe | collections | DiscoverEd | Library | Library Annexe | Search | University of Edinburgh DiscoverED, the University of Edinburgh’s new one step information, discovery and delivery service, is now on-line and fully operational. You can request Library Annexe items using the new service; all …Continue reading →

Chicago, 1950, Another Look: The Erving Goffman Memorial Lecture 2014 TAGS: Books | Erving Goffman | Howard S Becker | Library | Social & Political Sciences | Sociology The Erving Goffman Memorial Lecture is being held today as part of the year-long celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Sociology department at University of Edinburgh. Today’s lecture is …Continue reading →