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What’s on: 27th- 31st October
Posted On October 24, 2014 by alaurins
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Drop in sessions -1st Floor Main Library
27th October- 31st October
| AM | PM Get the Best of the Library Week- Meet your Academic Support Librarian |
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| Monday | Metadata games(Tag image collections) | 2-3pm Divinity, History, Classics & Archaeology3-4pm Politics & International Relations, Economics |
| Tuesday | Towards Dolly(Documenting the birth of modern genetics) | 2-3pm Literatures, Languages and Cultures3-4pm Business School, Informatics |
| Wednesday | Session cancelled 🙁 | 2-3pm Design, History of Art, Architecture, Music, Law3-4pm Medicine |
| Thursday | Lothian Health Service Archive | 2-3pm Sociology, Social Work, Social Policy, Education3-4pm Psychology, Philosophy, Language Sciences, Research Methods |
| Friday | Zombie Apocalypse –Accessing resources off campus(ResourceLists@Edinburgh) | 2-3pm Health in Social Science3-4pm Chemistry, Physics, Maths |
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Get the best from the Library week @Pop-up Library
Posted On October 24, 2014 by cstirling
All next week, 27th-31st October, the afternoon Pop-up Library sessions are being taken over by the Library Academic Support team for Get the Best from the Library Week.
Get the Best from the Library Week is all about helping you find out more about how the Library can work for you at the University of Edinburgh. So why not pop up and meet us at the 1st floor, Main Library between 2-4pm every day next week.
During the Get the Best from the Library Week you can:
- Discover the full range of information resources available to you
- Find out about new resources purchased recently
- Get one-to-one support from a library specialist in your subject area
The Library Academic Support team provides support to staff and students for all matters relating to library services, so no matter what your question is, we aim to help.
You can find out what subject areas are being covered each afternoon from the Get the Best from the Library Week timetable.
Hope to see you there!
Brought to you by the Library Academic Support Team.
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Library burnt to the ground! The Student, 25/10/84
Posted On October 24, 2014 by Gavin Willshaw
In this week’s digitised edition of The Student 1984:
- The Main Library (almost) burns to the ground
- The Campaign for Real Lager provides a guide to the best fizzy stuff in town
- Tips on novel writing from the University’s Writer-in-Residence
- The Scots Language Society fights the demise of the Scots tongue
- A Johnny Thunders and Hanoi Rocks double-bill delight the crowds at the Caley
Read more at: https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/thestudent/
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Taylor & Francis E-books Platform Downtime
Posted On October 24, 2014 by eresources
Due to essential maintenance users will not be able to access Taylor & Francis e-books for a maximum of 1 hour between 23:00 – 02:00 hours BST on Friday 24th October.
Due to the fact that this maintenance is on the firewalls, which is the outermost layer of the system, users visiting the site during this time will receive a “connection timeout” or similar message within their browser.
The publisher has now cancelled this maintenance period.
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Web of Science – New KCI Korean Journal Database
Posted On October 23, 2014 by eresources
Following last week’s upgrade to Web of Science, we now have access to the New KCI Korean Journal Database. The KCI Korean Journal Database is a searchable repository of literature from Korea and is available for selection listed on the drop down ‘Search’ list.
The KCI Korean Journal Database provides a comprehensive snapshot of the most influential regional content from researchers in South Korea. Using citation connections from the Web of Science™, regional work is framed within the broader context of global research.
Further information at:
http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/kci_kjd/
Online recorded training at:
http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/kci-korean-journal-database/
Further information about our databases can be found at http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases
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Tagged Arts & Humanities, Business Economics, databases, Engineering, General Internal Medicine, history, Public Administration, Science Technology, Sports Sciences
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Get the Best from the Library Week for SPS
Posted On October 22, 2014 by spslibrarian
27th-31st October
Drop-in sessions on the 1st floor at Pop-up Library
Get the Best from the Library Week is all about helping you find out more about how the Library can work for you at the University of Edinburgh.
During the Get the Best from the Library Week you can:
- Discover the full range of information resources available to you
- Find out about new resources purchased recently
- Get one-to-one support from a library specialist in your subject area
All next week the Library Academic Support team are taking over the Pop-up Library desk in the afternoons (1st floor, Main Library, Mon-Fri 2-4pm) so why not pop-up for a chat and find out how you can Get the Best from the Library?
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Tagged academic support librarian, African Studies, Canadian Studies, International Relations, Politics, Social & Political Sciences, social policy, Social Work, Sociology, South Asian Studies
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For the love of Gaelic (and everything else Scottish).
Posted On October 21, 2014 by emacgillivray
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 events we will be popping-up at the first floor reception desk in the University Library on Thursday 23 October, 2-4pm. We will be highlighting some of our Gaelic holdings but will also have information available on all of our collections.
Over the past sixty years, fieldworkers at the School of Scottish Studies have collected thousands of audio recordings of songs, music, tales, verse, customs, belief, oral history and much more in Gaelic, Scots and English. These are complemented by film, photographic and manuscript collections. From rallying political songs to soothing lullabies, supernatural tales to humorous anecdotes, traditional crafts to fire festivals; the full range of Scotland’s cultural legacy is represented and brought to life in this rich tapestry of archive material.
The School of Scottish Studies Archives
Peter Cooke interviewing George Moss
There will be an opportunity to listen to some of our thousands of recordings, many of which can be accessed online via the Tobar an Dualchais / Kist o’ Riches website.
You can also learn, hands on, about the history of sound recording. Sound recordings were made using a variety of recording machines from wax cylinders to DAT tapes and digital memory cards. For many decades the reel to reel recording machine using quarter-inch magnetic tape was the standard and as a result the vast majority of our archive recordings are on open reel tape.
We invite you to come along to make your own recording using an open reel tape machine! You can record your own message or why not try one of the Gaelic or Scots sayings that we have selected? You can take the section of tape away with you, and we will also give you a QR code so that you can then listen to your recording online.
All this and more at the School of Scottish Studies Archives Pop-Up Library session on Thursday 23 October, 2-4pm.
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Get the Best from the Library Week Timetable
Posted On October 21, 2014 by cloverodgers
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| 2-3pm | 3-4pm | |
| Monday 27th | Divinity, History, Classics & Archaeology | Politics & International Relations, Economics |
| Tuesday 28th | Literatures, Languages and Cultures | Business School, Informatics |
| Wednesday 29th | Design, History of Art, Architecture, Music, Law | Medicine |
| Thursday 30th | Sociology, Social Work, Social Policy, Education | Psychology, Philosophy, Language Sciences, Research Methods |
| Friday 31st | Health in Social Science | Chemistry, Physics, Maths |
We look forward to meeting you!
The Library Academic Support Team
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Coming soon … Get the Best from the Library Week 27-31October 2014
Posted On October 21, 2014 by cloverodgers
The Library Academic Support Team are running Get the Best from the Library Week between 27-31 October. Get the Best from the Library Week is all about helping you find out more about how the Library can work for you at the University of Edinburgh. Come and meet us at the Pop-Up Library, 1st Floor Main Library between 2-4pm every day next week to pick up flyers and freebies!
During Get the Best from the Library Week you can:
- Discover the full range of information resources available to you
- Find out about on new resources purchased recently
- Get one-to-one support from a library specialist in your subject area
The Library Academic Support team provides support to staff and students for all matters relating to library services, so no matter what your question is, we aim to help!
Hope to see you there!
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Literature Review Q&A
Posted On October 21, 2014 by adonnelly
What is a literature review? Do I need to do a literature review? How do I get started with my literature review?
Bring these and any other questions you may have to the Pop-up Library on the first floor of the Main Library, where a Librarian will be available to answer them from 10.00 – 12.00 on Friday 24th October.
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