Monday 26th October 2016:
This week we have Professor Barry Bergdoll visiting ECA ESALA as Simpson Visiting Professor.
We are delighted to welcome Professor Bergdoll to ECA and to mark the occasion we have some of his books on special display in the Art & Architecture Library at Minto House, Chambers Street.
The following books can be found in our collections at ECA Library, the Art & Architecture Library or at the Main Library, George Square. Check DiscoverEd for details.
Latin America in construction: architecture 1955-1980, Museum of Modern Art, 2015
Henri Labrouste: structure brought to light, Museum of Modern Art, 2012
Rising currents: projects for New York’s waterfront, Thames & Hudson, 2011
Bauhaus 1919-1933: workshops for modernity, Museum of Modern Art, 2009
Home delivery: fabricating the modern dwelling, Museum of Modern Art, 2008
European Architecture 1750-1890, Oxford University Press, 2000
Mies in Berlin, Museum of Modern Art, 2001
Karl Friedrich Schinkel: an architecture for Prussia, Rizzoli, 1994
Leon Vaudoyer: historicism in the age of industry, Architectural History Foundation & MIT Press, 1994
Author: hhoward2
Happy National Poetry Day to all our readers
8th October, 2015:
When I am Among the Trees
When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness,
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
– Mary Oliver.
Tag it! Find it! happening today at ECA Library!
Thursday 19th February: 12.30-14.30:
Tag It, Find It! “Say what you see!” Play our 1980’s inspired game, learn how tagging and metadata can help your studies and get up close and personal with some highlights from the University’s Art Collections.
This Innovative Learning Week session run by Library and University Collections staff will take place in the ECA Library beside the current journals area, on level 1 of the Library at Evolution House.
Pop in and join the fun!
For more info see http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/popuplibrary/2015/02/04/tag-it-find-it/
Residency begins at ECA Library for artist Holly Prentice
Monday 2nd February 2015:
We are delighted to welcome Holly Prentice to ECA Library today. Holly has already begun to explore our 2000 artists’ books and will be producing an exhibition, several workshops and a new book-work, as part of her month-long research residency.
One of the workshops will be a free and open to all drop in session at ECA Evolution House, room 2.15, during Innovative Learning Week, more details here soon…
Holly Prentice chosen as next research resident for ECA Library
ECA Library is pleased to announce that Holly Prentice has been chosen as the successful recipient of the ECA Book Artist Research Residency 2014/15. Holly will take up the Residency in early Spring 2015 (exact dates to be confirmed), based in ECA Library, Evolution House.
Holly is an artist who graduated from ECA in 2012 with a First Class degree in Drawing & Painting. Her work has been shown in exhibitions across the UK, from Aberdeen to Sheffield, to Ullapool, and at European venues such as the Universitat der Kunst, Berlin.
Holly uses libraries, archives and collections for research and as inspiration for her practice. We look forward to seeing the ways in which her month long exploration of ECA Library collections inspires her own work. More information about Holly’s plans for the residency will be posted here later this month.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all applicants for the time they took to apply for this award.
Change of look for WGSN website
WGSN* is our trend forecasting tool for fashion and design. Recently the website for WGSN has changed in appearance. Now when you log in (on campus) you will see a website called homebuildlife. WGSN is still accessible from this new parent website.
You can still find the WGSN pages when in homebuildlife: from the homebuildlife Main Menu choose “Design & Inspiration”, then choose “Fashion Connection” then you will see the WGSN options.
Do tell the Library if you have any problems accessing what you need.
Please note that WGSN is available on-campus only.
*WGSN: The leading online fashion trend-analysis and research service providing creative and business intelligence for the apparel, style, design and retail industries.
Pop Up library sessions for ECA!
There will be two ECA-related Pop Up Library sessions at the Main Library (George Square) level 1 Pop Up desk 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.
For more info about the Pop Up Library season take a look at the blog at http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/popuplibrary/
Pop Up Library season begins
The University Library is holding a series of Pop Up Library events at the Main Library, George Square, for the next 8 weeks. All sorts of info sessions will be taking place to promote different aspects of the many diverse services and collections that the University Library offers.
There will be two sessions on ECA-related matters: a pop up hands-on session on the ECA Artists’ Books collection, at 3.00pm – 4.00pm on Monday 3rd November, and a more general session on what the ECA Library can offer you, at 11.00am – 12.00 noon on Thursday 6th November.
There are dozens of other sessions throughout the Pop Up Library season. These include sessions on the Centre for Research Collections, the University Art collections, the musical instrument collections, and all aspects of services and collections of the University Library. The sessions will be a chance for you to meet library, archive and museum staff from the University, to chat about the collections and services, and to find out more about what it is like to work with and care for the amazingly rich and diverse collections that the University Library holds.
For more info about the Pop Up Library season take a look at the blog at http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/popuplibrary/
Inter library loans: a reminder for post-grads!
Attention all Researchers looking for slightly more obscure or hard to track down items! Don’t forget you can make use of your free allocation of inter library loans! This is where the Library tracks down and gives you access to items held at other research libraries.
For more info see http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/using-library/request-resources/ill/ill-about
Taught Post-grads are entitled to 20 free loans per year and Research Post-grads qualify for 30 per year!
Win an i-Pad mini!
Would you like to be in with a chance to win an i-Pad mini? Do you use Jisc MediaHub? If so, a new survey has just gone live to gather views on Jisc MediaHub:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FKMQKVL
As part of Project Enriched Playlists, a new Jisc-funded project, Jisc is looking into how audio-visual collections in Jisc MediaHub might be developed for Higher Education (HE) into ‘enriched playlists’:
http://bufvc.ac.uk/projects-research/project-enriched-playlists
This project will help Jisc understand and document how HE would like to use and get the most out of Jisc MediaHub’s moving image, audio and stills collections.
EDINA would be grateful for your help: please do complete the survey by 13th June 2014.
All participants who submit a completed survey will be entered into a prize draw to win an iPad mini 16GB (Wi-Fi).
To find out more about the project or this survey, please contact Hetty Malcolm-Smith, Jisc Project Manager (Content), Project Enriched Playlists (020 7393 1520 / hetty@bufvc.ac.uk).
