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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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Tagged ethnology, Gaelic, pop up library, School of Scottish Studies Archives, Scottish Studies
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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!
Brought to you by the Library Academic Support Team
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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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Trial – LLMC Digital
Posted On October 21, 2014 by eresources
We have trial access to LLMC Digital until the 30th November. Access this e-resource on campus or off campus via the VPN.
LLMC-Digital is an archive of historical legal and government documents, managed by a not-for-profit consortium of libraries in the US, but including a great deal of UK, European and global content. It currently includes over 85,000 volumes.
Feedback and further info
We are interested to know what you think of this e-resource as your comments influence purchase decisions so please do fill out our feedback form.
A list of all trials currently available to University of Edinburgh staff and students can be found on our trials webpage.
Tagged Law, Law Library Microform Consortium, LLMC
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freebies, prizes and your digital footprint
Posted On October 20, 2014 by lconnelly
Managing your digital footprint was at the Pop-Up Library this morning (20 October 2014) and we will be back on 3 November with more freebies, prizes and activities.
What is your digital footprint?
It’s the data you leave behind when you go online. It’s what you’ve said, what others have said about you, where you’ve been, images you’re tagged in, personal information, social media profiles and much more.
Prizes and activities
(Eligibility: University of Edinburgh students)
- You could win a Kindle! There are a number of ‘you have found a foot’ posters around campus. There are also a number of ‘you have found a foot’ images on various University web pages, Facebook pages and blogs. Find at least 5 (all on campus, all online, or both) and enter the competition for an opportunity to win a Kindle*.The competition will take place from 29 Sept-31 Oct 2014.
- You could win a £10 book token! Take a few minutes to complete the ‘managing your digital footprint’ survey. Further details www.ed.ac.uk/iad.digitalfootprint
- Contribute to our virtual walls (Padlets). We would like you to contribute to the virtual walls (Padlet), so that we can collect and share a variety of resources. You can add text, links, images, and audio to the virtual wall. You can add as many as you would like to the different Padlets. Further details www.ed.ac.uk/iad.digitalfootprint
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Discover Gaelic Special Collections from New College Library
Posted On October 20, 2014 by cloverodgers
—Grant, Peter. Dain spioradail. Elgin : Peter Macdonald, bookseller, 1837. New College Library Gaelic Collections 250.
Did you know that over 400 items which together form the Gaelic Collections at New College Library have recently been catalogued online. This collection of monographs and pamphlets was put together from various sources, including a substantial donation from the bequest of the Rev. Roderick Macleod. Come and join me at the Pop-up Library (on the first floor of the Main Library) on Wednesday 22 October, 10-12 pm, to find out more.
The Gaelic Collection contains several editions of “Dain spioradail ” by the celebrated hymn writer Peter Grant, and this edition at Gaelic Coll. 250 is the fifth edition, considerably enlarged and improved from earlier editions. It was published in Elgin, in the highlands of Scotland.
The title page information refers to Grant’s Gaelic name Pàdraig Grannd nan Òran, which means ‘Peter Grant of the songs’. Grant was a Baptist minister, born on 30 January 1783 at Ballintua, Strathspey, Scotland. He was a skilled fiddle player, who was able to set his poems on evangelical themes to well known tunes which were popular into the twentieth century. This work is typical of the works in the Gaelic Collection, which contains many volumes of religious poetry.
Christine Love-Rodgers, Academic Support Librarian – Divinity
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Questions, questions, questions plus answers (and lollies) at Resources Plus.
Posted On October 20, 2014 by mredpath
Q. Do you know how to request a book (RAB) to be bought for the library?
A. We can show you.
Q. Do you know how to get hold of items that we do not hold in the library collection?
A. We can show you how to use the Inter Library Loans (ILL) service.
Q. Is there a journal or database you think the library should subscribe to?
A. We’ll tell you how you can contact your Academic Support Librarian.
We’ll reveal all this and more at our next Resources Plus pop-up library session on Tuesday 21st October from 2 till 4 on the 1st floor of the Main library.
Margaret Redpath
Main Library Helpdesk
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What’s on 20th – 24th October
Posted On October 20, 2014 by cstirling
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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 | Carmichael Watson Project(Centre for Research Collections) | Resources Plus: How do I get hold of the book I need? |
| Wednesday | Discover Special Collections from New College Library | Be in charge of the Library for the day! |
| Thursday | MyEd Mobile | School of Scottish Studies Archive |
| Friday | Help with literature reviews: Q&A session | Copyright: Everything you need to know |
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