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Drop in sessions -1st Floor Main Library
3rd November – 7th November
| AM | PM | |
| Monday | Digital Footprint – managing your digital footprint | Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) Artists’ Books collection |
| Tuesday | Data Library | Community Fundraising – Development & Alumni |
| Wednesday | Collaborate | IS Skills |
| Thursday | Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) Library resources – how to find and use | MyEd Mobile |
| Friday | Finding and using Chinese related Library resources | Exam Papers Online |
Halloween! Zombies! Candy!
The Zombie Apocalypse is here and the real question is how do you survive both the zombies and your studies at the same time?
Stay calm … arm yourself with this list: Zombie Apocalypse Guide – How to access resources during a zombie outbreak (or any other event that may affect access to University services).
This guide created by the Library Learning Services team using Resource Lists @ Edinburgh provides handy tips on how library services can be accessed remotely and off campus. It also provides information on h
ow to get the most use from Resource Lists and provides direction towards self-study in the areas of zombie outbreak and survival.
Library Learning Services will be up on the first floor of the Main Libraryfrom 10am-12noon this Halloween (31st October) to answer all your off-campus and Zombie Apocalypse questions.
Attractions may include: pumpkins, zombies, games, chocolates, lollipops, assorted candy.
Note: if you are not already, you will be prompted to log in to EASE to access subscription content.
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Stephanie Farley
Library Learning Services Assistant
On Thursday 30th October from 10am, Louise and Clair from Lothian Health Services Archive (LHSA) will be on the Library Pop desk on the first floor of the Main Library. LHSA is one of the largest medical archives in the UK, holding everything from institutional records of Edinburgh’s hospitals to small personal collections from those who worked inside them.
Including registers and minutes, plans, photographs, objects, audio-visual media and more, our archive documents the history of healthcare in Edinburgh and the Lothians over more than four hundred years (our earliest holding dates from 1594). Our collections trace the social, political, economic and (of course) medical history of our city and are widely used by the general public, students and academics. Our most popular resources come from our Royal Edinburgh Hospital (REH) collections, a psychiatric hospital (‘asylum’) that has just celebrated its bicentenary. Ranging from admission registers to patient letters, artwork and case books, the good recordkeeping of the hospital has led to a wealth of unique sources for students, academics and family historians exploring patient experiences in the nineteenth century.
Artwork by Royal Edinburgh Hospital patient, John Willis Mason, c. 1890s (GD16).
On Thursday, we’ll be focussing on our image collections. As Clair has been cataloguing LHSA’s considerable collection of photographs, she has put together a slideshow of some of her favourites:
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Ward, 1895 (P/PL1)
We’ll also be remembering the centenary of the First World War in our display by bringing along a number of collection items. For example, you will be able to see a rare wartime photo album from the Edenhall Hospital for Limbless Soldiers and Sailors (based near Musselburgh) and a scrapbook from nurse Ethel Miller. Nurse Miller worked in the 2nd Scottish General Hospital Craigleith, where she decided to pass around a book amongst her soldier patients to record their memories, verses and sketches. The scrapbook is a real favourite with LHSA staff, and in autumn last year we produced a replica copy that is used in education work:
Page from the scrapbook of Nurse Ethel Miller, c. 1917 (Acc12/20)
So come and see us on Thursday from 10am and we can let you know how LHSA can help you, from historical research to sources for projects and finding your own Edinburgh family history.
Louise Williams, LHSA Archivist
Did you know that Edinburgh has been a world leader in genetics for over a century? And that there’s definitely more to cloning than just Dolly the sheep? Come to the Pop-Up Library on the first floor of the Main Library between 10 and 12 tomorrow (28th) to learn about the fascinating animal genetics collections revealed by the Towards Dolly project, and have some fun while you’re at it. Don’t miss the chance to win some fabulous prizes (including ‘Dolly’ Mixtures, naturally). And yes, there will be a sheep drawing contest.
Don’t be a drone, be a clone – see you there!
Clare Button, Project Archivist, ‘Towards Dolly: Edinburgh, Roslin and the Birth of Modern Genetics’
There will be two ECA-related Pop Up Library sessions at the Main Library during Week 8 of Semester 1.
On Monday 3rd November from 2.00pm – 4.00pm Jane Furness and Margaret Redpath will be on hand to show everyone who visits the Pop Up Library desk some treasures from the ECA Artists’ Books collection. We will also be showing you how to search for Artists’ Books on the library catalogue and answering any questions you may have about Artists’ Books.
On Thursday 6th November from 10.00am – 12noon we will be on hand to talk about ECA Library resources more generally, including how to access e-resources for Art, Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, History of Art, and Music.
#LibraryPop
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 |
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:
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.
The School of Scottish Studies Archives holds:
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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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.
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)
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