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/
events
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/
Book artist Julie Johnstone begins ECA Library artist's residency
May 1st:
Today ECA Library welcomes book artist Julie Johnstone to a one month research residency at ECA Library. Julie will explore the ECA Library Artists’ Books collection, curate a display of books, and will organise a reading group or two, open to all students and staff. At the end of her residency Julie will create a new artist’s book in response to her research residency at ECA, which will be added to the ECA Library artists’ books permanent collection.
Julie will be tweeting about her experience at #eca_artistsbks.
More information about the dates of the reading groups at ECA Library will be posted here soon.
uk.untitled: blog for new artists and writers is launched
uk.untitled is a new initiative set up by art historians Laura Di Maio (current PhD candidate University of Edinburgh) and Ruth Burgon (MSc University of Edinburgh). Their aim is to create a platform that can provide a first rung for young artists and art historians (students or recent graduates) in the United Kingdom, an initial place for them to get their work seen and their voices heard in the British art community.
uk.untitled hope that by beginning this project at the University of Edinburgh, in the year of its merger with the Edinburgh College of Art, they will promote the value of fruitful collaboration between artists and art historians, which is central to their thinking.
They will be beginning this project as a blog (which will include frequent reviews of independent shows, interviews with young artists, online exhibitions, platforms for debate, artistic event promotions, and monthly showcases of selected talent), but hope that it will develop in the future to allow them collectively to curate exhibitions of their contributors’ work, hold events, run debates and workshops and so on.
uk.untitled is project based around people and will not work without your input!
uk.untitled are looking for artists and writers who are interested in getting involved now. Email them with some info about yourself and a sample of your work: writers please submit a short (500 word) sample of your writing on art; artists please submit 5 photos of your work.
Additionally, if you are running an event or exhibition that you think might interest uk.untitled, please let them know and they will post a blog about it.
There will be a selection process as the organisers will be looking for a high standard in both the artists and writers they support.
EMAIL: uk.untitled@gmail.com
BLOG: www.uk-untitled.blogspot.com
