Autumn Dissertation and Thesis Festival: 30 October – 10 November 2023

Discover the help and resources available from the Library to support your dissertation or thesis. This autumn’s festival will be a mix of in person and online events, including sessions on

  • How to use the Library for your dissertation
  • Using the National Library of Scotland for your dissertation or thesis, and
  • What is a systematic review dissertation like?

For more information take a look at the full programme of events.

 

Welcome Week 2023

11th September 2023:

We wish all our new students a very happy Welcome Week, and extend a warm welcome to you, and to all our returning students! Come and collect your stickers from the site libraries!

Picture of colourful stickers to collect
‘Collect the Library’ stickers at ECA Library

If you are new on-campus you will find these library orientation guides useful.
You can find the Library newsletters here.
You can find out about our Library skills course on Learn, called Libsmart, here.
You can find out about our upcoming Dissertation & Thesis Festival 2023 here. It runs from 30 October – 10 November 2023.
If you have any questions about the Library services, or would like to arrange a 1-2-1 meeting with a librarian, take a look at the list of your academic support librarians here and make contact.

Browse our new books and pick up a Libraries leaflet.

Displays of new books in the library

Barbara A. Morton exhibition opens at ECA Library: sidereal. the afterimage

8th September 2023:

We are delighted to announce the opening of our new show at ECA Library, sidereal. the afterimage, presenting a selection of work from ~ sidereal. the afterimage, by Barbara A. Morton of Entropie Books.

sidereal. the afterimage

sidereal. the afterimage

~ sidereal. the afterimage is a new chapter of creative composition by Barbara A Morton.

The exhibition takes its title from the distinctive signature piece ~ sidereal. the
afterimage which achieves an extension of intention and originality in the
expression of poetry, book-making, drawing, and design.

The accompanying pieces, likewise, demonstrate ambition and creative reach,
both technically and imaginatively, and serve to maintain and develop Barbara’s
ongoing purpose of bringing poetry and poetic text to its aesthetic and accurate
environment ~ to encourage the reader to look, and to encourage the viewer to
read. To look closely. To look again. To look ~ for longer.

The show is at ECA Library, Evolution House (level 1), West Port, Edinburgh, until 31st October 2023. Evolution House is open to the public Monday – Friday, 9.00am – 4.45pm.

 

 

A Tribute to Len McDermid: 1933 – 2023

27th June 2023:

Award winning artist, poet and letterpress printer, and founder of Stichill Marigold Press, Len McDermid sadly died last week, and we pay tribute to him at ECA Library with a display of the work we hold by him in the ECA Library artists’ books collection.

We were honoured to host a tribute exhibition in 2021, Fair Winds and Following Seas, curated by book artist Barbara A Morton, and we loved and respected Len and enjoyed working with him.

He will be sorely missed.