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5 recommended library resources for LGBT+ History Month

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February has seen the celebration of LGBT+ History Month in the UK and you may have enjoyed one of the many fantastic events put on by the University’s Staff Pride Network or the University’s Students’ Association. LGBT+ History Month may be near the end but I wanted to highlight just some of the library resources available to staff and students of the University that will allow you to study and research LGBT+ history further.

1. Books, journals, articles, etc.

The Main Library is co-hosting a ‘micro-exhibition’ with student groups Project Myopia and LiberatEd with a pop-up book display on the ground floor this week. A LGBT+ History Month Resource List has also been put together to highlight the wide range of LGBT+ books available at the University Library. This is just a selection of titles available at the Library and you can use DiscoverEd to find more.

You can also use DiscoverEd to search for and find a large range of journal articles and journals on LGBT+ related research. Or you can go further in your research by using some of the bibliographic databases the Library has access to that will allow you to search for journal articles, abstracts, book reviews, book chapters, reports and proceedings, etc.

2. What to watch?

You can use some of the Library’s moving image and video streaming databases to search for and view films, documentaries, news programmes, interviews, plays, TV programmes, etc. Continue reading →

SPS have top Resource List of semester one!

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Sociology 1A had the most used Resource List of semester one, 2014/15, with an average of 67.3 visits per student.

Find out what the course organisers, tutors and students thought about their Resource List and how useful it was for them.

Sociology 1A Takes Top Spot

Sociology 1A – Students and Tutors

Interested in creating a successful Resource List for your course? Or just want to find out more about Resource Lists?

See the Resource Lists @ Edinburgh website or their blog: http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/resourcelists/

Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for Social and Political Science

 

50 Years of Sociology at Edinburgh: Professor Tom Burns

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In 1964 the Sociology department at University of Edinburgh was founded by Tom Burns. A prominent sociologist and one of the first sociologists to be elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy, Professor Burns worked at the University until his retirement in 1981.

The Centre for Research Collections at the University Library holds Professor Burns papers. Although these are currently uncatalogued and require some extensive conservation work, I was allowed a sneak peak at a box of offprints that is part of his collection of papers (Tom Burns offprints: Accession no. E2002.6).

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The City as Looking Glass by Tom Burns in Prospect (1960)

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