Category Archives: Pop-up Library

Learning about Learn

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Over 4,500 courses this year will be using the Learn environment to provide students with online readings, information and activities. The staff who look after Learn are taking this opportunity to meet students and answer your questions about how it works.

Screen shot global navigation in LearnFind out how to

  • personalise your views,
  • set up notifications,
  • find detailed help for Learn, and
  • download the Mobile Learn App for your phone or tablet.

Come along to one of our pop-up library sessions and learn more about using Learn!

Screen shot of Mobile Learn App

Tuesday 16 Sep 2-4 pm
Friday 19 Sep 10-12 am
Monday 22 Sep 2-4 pm

Metadata Games at #Librarypop!

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Following on from last month’s successful Metadata Games experiment, we ran another two sessions during Fresher’s Week as part of the Pop Up Library.

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More than 20 people, including 16 students, participated across the two days and a quite incredible 1,530 new tags were entered into our database.

The volunteers assisted us by describing a selection of random images from our online database http://images.is.ed.ac.uk and were awarded points for good tags that described the people, objects and places visible within the pictures. A live leaderboard was displayed on the big screen so participants could compare their progress against friends and colleagues; Scholarly Communications’ Theo Andrew got the best individual staff score but new students Mara Carella, Mark Lundy and Siss Matz topped the student leaderboard.

High scores

We’ll be running the session again in October so there is still ample opportunity for anyone who hasn’t played before to race up the leaderboard and claim the highest score! Well played everyone who took part!

Please contact gavin.willshaw@ed.ac.uk or scott.renton@ed.ac.uk if you would like more information about the project.

Art Exposed

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A chance to experience rarely seen paintings and objects from the University’s Art CollectionArt Exposed

Recently we learned that the most searched for term on our brand new Art Collections website was ‘Male Nude’ – we’ve decided to go with the assumption that it’s all the Classics students taking their studies very seriously indeed…

But, in honour of all you weirdos out there, we’re giving you the chance to get up close and personal to the slightly racier side of the University’s Art Collection.

Anna and Jill will be around to talk to you about the items on view, how you can access the artworks yourselves, and also let you know about some of the brilliant volunteering opportunities available to anyone interested in curatorial or wider museum work.

So come along to the Art Collections Library Pop session between 10 and 12 tomorrow, in the 1st Floor reception of the Main Library.

Search the collection: http://collections.ed.ac.uk/art
Follow us: @UoEArtArchives
Engage: #LibraryPop