LibraryLabs Pop Up at Central TAGS: | | | | | Following on from the success of our Pop Up Library Metadata Games sessions during Innovative Learning Week, this week we took Metadata Games to the City of Edinburgh Council’s Central Library, …Continue reading →

Tag It, Find It!: Pop Up Library on tour TAGS: | | | | Last week, Pop Up Library packed its bags for a three day tour of the university campus, bringing paintings from the art collection, our metadata tagging game and a 5kg …Continue reading →

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So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye (for now) TAGS: Pop-up Library has now packed up and there will be no more sessions this semester. After 9 weeks and 90 sessions we wanted to say a big thanks to all …Continue reading →

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What do you want to learn today? TAGS: | | | | | | | | | Come along to the Pop-up Library between 2-4pm on Wednesday 5th November to find out about free taught courses and online resources in information technology from IS Skills. We have learning …Continue reading →

Finding Data TAGS: | | The Data Library team want to help you find data sources for your studies and your research. Pop up to the Pop Up Library this Tuesday between 10am and 12 …Continue reading →

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Collaborate: The University Supported Virtual Meeting Tool TAGS: | | | | | | | | | On Wednesday November 5th from 10am-12pm come and find out about Collaborate! Collaborate is the University Supported Virtual Classroom and/or Meeting tool and as students you can access Collaborate via …Continue reading →

For the love of Gaelic (and everything else Scottish). TAGS: | | | | The School of Scottish Studies Archives holds: over 30,000 sound recordings 320 film / video items over 50,000 images manuscript collections As part of the University’s Gaelic Week programme of …Continue reading →

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What’s on 20th – 24th October TAGS: | #LibraryPop Drop in sessions -1st Floor Main Library 20th October- 24th October AM PM Monday Digital Footprint – managing your digital footprint Getting full text journal articles – fast! Tuesday …Continue reading →

Meet the Collections Managers TAGS: | | Hannah and I can’t wait to meet some of our users tomorrow, when we do our Pop Up Library session on the 1st floor of the Main Library. We will …Continue reading →

Rare Books De-mystified TAGS: | If you have ever fancied using old or rare books as the basis of a project, or come upon the location “Main Library – Special Collections” in the catalogue, for …Continue reading →

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Default utility Image Archival Provenance Project: Emily’s finds               My name is Emily, and I’m the second of the two archive interns that...
Default utility Image Archival Provenance Project: a glimpse into the university’s history through some of its oldest manuscripts               My name is Madeleine Reynolds, a fourth year PhD candidate in History of Art....

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Sustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles In this post, our Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses the recyclable book cradles she has developed...
Default utility Image Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Rehousing Books and Paper Bindings In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers,...

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