The Art & Architecture Library at Minto House, Chambers Street, will be closed for Estates maintenance from 2nd to 13th June 2025.
ECA Library will be open as usual at Evolution House, West Port, during this time, and the Main Library at George Square will be open 24/7 as usual.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
You can find out more here.
Edinburgh University students and staff currently have trial access to Hindi Cinema: Histories of Film-making, until 11th May 2025.
Hindi Cinema: Histories of Film-making:
Sourced from the private collection of renowned author and documentary film-maker Nasreen Munni Kabir, this resource features unedited interviews with leading Indian film personalities who contributed to the shaping of the ‘Golden Age’ of Hindi cinema and beyond.
This material marks the first time that a significant number of Indian film practitioners were filmed for a British broadcaster. Other collection highlights include behind-the-scenes photographs from film sets and popular Indian film posters from the British Film Institute (BFI).
As always this trial can be accessed via the Library E-resources Trials page.
Our new display at ECA Library, Evolution House, level 1, features works by three of the winners of the 2024 Bookmarks Prize.
The Bookmarks Prize is awarded to selected graduates for high quality and innovative use of the book form shown at the Edinburgh College of Art Graduate Shows. It is open to all students across the Schools of Art and Design.
Jane Hyslop, Lecturer in Painting & Illustration at ECA, who curated this display says “In 2024 it was a pleasure to select three graduates to receive the award: Daniyyel Ironside (School of Art, Intermedia), Charlotte Brooke Simm (School of Design, Textiles) and Honor Dodd (School of Design, Jewellery).
The prize itself offered the opportunity to showcase work at BOOKMARKS 2025 which was held at Edinburgh College of Art in March 2025.”
The shortlist of prize winners was as follows:
Honor Dodd – BA (Hons) Jewellery
Daniyyel Ironside – BA (Hons) Intermedia
Charlotte Brooke Simm – BA (Hons) Textiles
Aner Wang -BA (Hons) Illustration
& Commended Collective:
SPRITZ – Flora Luckman, Ally McKay, Lucy Parker, BA (Hons) Illustration.
The display will continue until 11th May 2025, and is accessible to the public, Monday – Friday, 9.00am – 4.45pm.
Make your way to the ECA Sculpture Court at Lauriston campus Main Building from 1.00pm to 7.00pm to enjoy the annual ECA Bookmarks Bookfair! Your opportunity to buy prints, zines, artists’ books, cards, pin badges, t-shirts and other wonders made by our ECA Art and Design students, and friends from Scottish colleges and arts organisations.
Poster art by Rosie Wang, ECA Illustration student, rosieee_art on Insta…
Want to boost your library research skills? Interested in finding out more about library resources for your research question? Looking for help with managing bibliographic and research data?
Join us for the Library’s week-long programme of events to help you succeed with your dissertation or thesis.
We’re offering a range of online sessions including EndNote for managing references, SAGE Research Methods and Literature reviews: functions, types and methods.
If you prefer to attend in-person events, why not come along to our Dissertation & Thesis Festival Discovery Day on Wednesday 26 February!
We’re celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month with a day of LGBTQ+ themed events in the Main Library, featuring :
Information and booking for all events is available here
We look forward to welcoming you!
We wish all our students and staff a very productive semester 2, and invite you to come along to ECA Library to enjoy our new display of book works by artist and print maker Susie Wilson.
We are fortunate to have several artists’ books in our collection by Susie, in addition to the major boxed work she created in response to her residency at ECA library in 2016.
The works featured are:
Cabinet on left:
1: Flutter, Edinburgh, 2011
2: Inside Outside, Edinburgh, 2011
3: Hidden Inside, Edinburgh, 2011
4: Tunnel, Edinburgh, 2011
5: Insect Life, Edinburgh, 2011
Cabinet on right:
6: Untitled, Edinburgh, 2016
For more information about Susie’s work click here. [This display has now closed.]
All the staff of ECA and A&A Libraries wish our students and staff a very happy and restorative festive holiday. Please note the following opening and closing dates for our libraries over the festive season:
ECA Library: Closed on 21st and 22nd December; open until 4.50pm on Monday 23rd December; then closed until 9.00am on Friday 3rd January 2025.
A&A Library: Closed on 21st and 22nd December; open until 4.50pm on Monday 23rd December; then closed until 9.00am on Friday 3rd January 2025.
Main Library, George Square: open until 2.45pm on Tuesday 24th December, closed for 25th and 26th December, then open from 9.00am 27th December. Also closed on 1st and 2nd January 2025. For full details click here.
Happy holidays!
Are you about to embark on a substantial piece of writing and feeling daunted? Or maybe you are stuck in the middle of your dissertation? Perhaps an appointment with one of our Royal Literary Fund Fellows would help! This year our Fellows are Mary Paulson-Ellis, Lucy Ribchester and Lesley Glaister, all experienced and published authors.
You can book a one to one in person appointment with one of our Fellows, at the Main Library George Square, and there are also appointments available at Kings Buildings.
For more information take a look at our RLFF webpage.
Many of our students used this service last year and found it incredibly helpful to have in person one to one support and coaching for their writing.
We are delighted to have a pop up display of books relating to British architect Cedric Price (1934-2003), at the A&A Library, to coincide with the new Thinkbelt exhibition at the Mathew Gallery, Minto House.
The exhibition celebrates the legacy of Cedric Price and prompts reflection on how architecture can be useful, timely, delightful and permeable to respond to current environmental and social challenges.
Curated by Prof. María José Martínez Sánchez, Dr. Ana Bonet Miró, Martin Brown, the exhibition runs from 11-22 November 2024.
The exhibition’s centrepiece features two original market stall prototypes from the Drawing Matter Collection, designed by Price and never exhibited before. Alongside these prototypes, a range of archival materials – including prints of original drawings, texts, ephemera, film extracts and audio recordings – offers a glimpse into the diversity of Price’s practice and the interdisciplinary conversations that animated it.
In the spirit of Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt project, this initiative aims to stimulate discussions about some of the key principles of his architecture – such as the provision of user-centred designs that increase choice, encourage change, do more with less, facilitate easy assembly and disassembly, and create responsive designs that delight the communities they serve – in relation to a selection of pedagogies and practices at each school. It prompts some of Price’s key design questions: Who do we design for? How little need be done? For how long is it useful? How to make time visible in our designs? What might design for pleasure and delight mean today?
Our new display explores journeys to islands both real and imaginary, centering on Voyage Boxed: sea journeys, island hopping & trans-oceanic concepts, by Imi Maufe and others, (2014), and including in addition, an Atlas of Remote Islands, by Judith Schalansky (2010), The Fascinating secrets of oceans and islands, (Reader’s Digest Association, 1972) Archipelago: an atlas of imagined islands, by Huw Lewis-Jones (2019) and Dreaming the Gokstadt: northern lands and islands, Thomas Joshua Cooper, (1988).
