Spring Dissertation and Thesis Festival 23-27 February 2026: We have an exciting week of events planned for the Library’s Dissertation & Thesis Festival this February to highlight how the Library can help students succeed with their dissertation or thesis. Our programme includes a Discovery Day on Monday 23 February, when the Main Library (at George Square) will feature stalls from digital resource publishers and our own library teams highlighting our huge range of […]

We have recently acquired a facsimile boxed set of Archigram magazine: the Archive. Architecture’s most influential, innovative and beloved underground magazine, reissued for the first time in a handsome clamshell box! Published by Designers & Books. Inspired by comic-book culture, Pop art, psychedelia, the space race, sci-fi, Constructivism and Buckminster Fuller, the hugely influential British […]

In this post, Juan José Miranda and Annie Kelly bring together their learning technology and administrative perspectives behind the Challenge Course ‘Understanding Understanding Decolonisation in a Globalised World’. It describes how they adapted familiar tools and processes, from using ABC course design principles in new and collaborative ways for an interdisciplinary cohort, to rethinking possibilities […]

By Allie, from the USA, studying MSc Climate Change Management I’m Allie, a masters student from the United States, currently on the one-year, full-time MSc Climate Change Management programme. I decided to do a masters in order to change career and pursue a passion. I did my undergraduate studies in Neuroscience and French, so I had a bit of a science background, but changing to climate change management was […]

There was sunshine over Leith, welcoming members of the Edinburgh Groundswell team on a recent fieldwork trip to engage with research partners and the local community through gardening. Organised by The Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society (https://thecaley.org.uk/), this gardening activity took place in Dalmeny Street Park, after it had recently undergone renovations as part of the […]

Content Improvement Club is our regular meetup for web publishers. In January, we ran two sessions focused on writing alt text and making images accessible. Feb 20, 2026