The IAD are taking part in ‘WriteFest’ – an annual event established to support academic writing, running throughout November. During WriteFest the IAD will be running Writing Retreats to provide researchers with a quiet space and time to write, along with a selection of writing workshops and resources to support academic writing.
Find out more here
Want to boost your library research skills? Find out more about the library resources for your research question? Or about managing your bibliographic and research data? Find out what the Library can do to help you succeed with your dissertation or thesis at our Dissertation and Thesis Festival 2025.
Sessions include:
Live session times don’t suit you? Online sessions will be recorded and available for viewing after the event.
In addition, Festival sessions are complemented by modules in the LibSmart II online course which can be undertaken at any time to build your knowledge and skills for library-based research.
For Dissertation and Thesis Festival programme details click here.
We are delighted to announce that Christian Sloan has won the 2025 RSA Annual ECA Library Prize.
Christian wins a one year free borrowing membership to the ECA Library collections, which is part of the University of Edinburgh Libraries.
Congratulations Christian, we look forward to welcoming you back to ECA Library.
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 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?
This month we are looking forward to the library’s Dissertation and Thesis Festival, taking place from 21 – 25 October. You can find the programme of events here, there is sure to be something of interest to everyone!
Sessions include:
We look forward to welcoming you to our festival events, and helping you make the most of your dissertation and thesis writing experience!
This month’s issue of Library Updates highlights our work on the Library Wellbeing Collection, our new EdHelp enquiries chatbot, how to find yourself in the Library and much more!
We are delighted to introduce the 2023 Bookmarks Prizewinners in the exhibition at ECA Library, Evolution House, West Port, 3rd April – 12th May 2024.
During the 2023 Graduate show a panel was tasked to select a group of students who demonstrated in their work an appreciation of the book and an ambitious approach to using it within their practice.
These Prizewinners were then invited to return to ECA and showcase their work at Bookmarks 2024, and now a selection of their work can be viewed at ECA Library.
Prizewinners are as follows:
Innes Clark – Illustration BA Hons
Instagram: @innesclarkillo
Charlene Scott – Intermedia BA Hons
Instagram: @charlenescottart
Daisy Whittle – Illustration BA Hons
Instagram: @daisywhittle.illustrator
The March issue of the University of Edinburgh Libraries newsletter is now available online here.
This issue focuses on AI and scholarly publishing, resource list developments for Law, and the Spring Library Dissertation & Thesis Festival.
All current and archived Library Newsletters can be found here.
