Back to the Wall: A Year of Experimenting with the Main Library’s Digital Wall TAGS: Digital Imaging Unit | Digital Wall | Edinburgh College of Art | photography | students | Talks | University of Edinburgh Library The Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service (CHDS) has managed the Main Library’s Digital Wall since it was installed in late 2019.1 The Wall is made up of two sets of nine …Continue reading →

Resolving to reference in 2023 TAGS: Citations | digital skills | dissertation | e-resources | information literacy | Library | LibSmart | online resources | Referencing | resources | students Whether you’re the type of person who makes New Years resolutions or not, we hope you’ll consider resolving to get comfortable with referencing this year. We have lots of resources …Continue reading →

What the NFT?! TAGS: academic libraries | blockchain | innovation | NFT | students The purpose of this blog post is not to endorse or criticise NFTs but to explain what they are and – briefly – discuss if they are relevant to libraries. …Continue reading →

Welcome! Key library resources for 2022/23 TAGS: digital skills | DiscoverEd | information literacy | Library | LibSmart | online resources | reading lists | students | subject guides It’s been a bit quiet here on the ASL blog for the past couple of months and that’s because August and September are always spent preparing for the start of …Continue reading →

Student Interns Capture ‘The Student’ TAGS: Bookeye | Edinburgh | Internship | newspaper | scanning | Student Journalism | students | The Student 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 →

My Experience as a DAMS Metadata Intern TAGS: DAMS | Digital Asset Management | Digital Preservation | Internship | metadata | students My name is Muminah and I’m about to enter my final year of studying Computer Science and Maths. For the past couple of months I’ve worked as a Digital Asset …Continue reading →

Recordings of Lunchtime Seminars: Decolonising and Diversifying the Library TAGS: antiracism | decolonialising | Diversity | e-resources | information literacy | online resources | reading lists | resources | students | subject guides | unconscious bias Our recent post on Decolonising and Diversifying the Library introduced the short seminar series the ASL team ran during lunchtimes in July. We’re delighted to be able to follow up …Continue reading →

Lunchtime seminars: Decolonising and Diversifying the Library TAGS: antiracism | critical information skills | decolonialising | decolonising and diversifying | digital skills | Diversity | equity | information literacy | lunchtime seminars | reading lists | resources | students | unconscious bias We held our first of three Decolonising and Diversifying the Library lunchtime seminars last week, on the topic of Diversity in First Year Scots Law Reading Lists. The recording (39 …Continue reading →

LILAC 2022: Being Better Teachers TAGS: academic writing | conference | critical information skills | digital skills | E-book | e-books | information literacy | journal club | online resources | pandemic | students In our third and final post about the LILAC conference (you can find part one here and part two here) I wanted to touch on the topic of becoming better …Continue reading →

Ten ways students can save money and time by using the library TAGS: Books | inter-library loan | students | well-being Everyone’s noticing the cost of living at the moment. And when you’re a student juggling your studies with a job, time is money. Here’s ten tips to help save money …Continue reading →