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).
Display by Julie Johnstone book artist in residence, opens at ECA Library
May 15th:
A display of artists’ books from the ECA Library collection has opened today at Evolution House, and has been curated by our book artist in residence, Julie Johnstone.
Julie has chosen artists’ books from our collection which she has felt a particular affinity with or reaction to, as she has surveyed our collection during her research residency.
The display is on level 1 of the Library at Evolution House, and is accompanied by a display of recent book works by Julie herself.
The display closed on 5th June.
Berg Fashion Library online goes live!
Our new subscription to the Berg Fashion Library is now live, on and off campus!
Berg Fashion Library: “the authority on world dress”: an extensive online portal which offers fully cross-searchable access to a large and growing range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopaedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, and images.
Access this amazing resource via the A-Z list of all University Library databases here:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/databases-a-z
Or via the Art & Design list of databases here:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/databases-subject-a-z/database-design
To find out more about what is included in the Berg Fashion Library see:
http://www.bergfashionlibrary.com.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/page/whatsinbergfashionlibrary/whats-in-the-berg-fashion-library
Exploring comics collections online
A new exhibition at the British Library, Comics Unmasked, is the UK’s largest ever exhibition of mainstream and underground comics. Featuring such iconic names as Neil Gaiman (Sandman), Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta), Grant Morrison (Batman: Arkham Asylum) and Posy Simmonds (Tamara Drewe), this exhibition traces the British comics tradition back through classic 1970s titles including 2000AD, Action and Misty to 19th-century illustrated reports of Jack the Ripper and beyond. The exhibition is open at the British Library, London, from 2nd May to 19th August 2014.
You can see another review of the exhibition here.
By happy coincidence ECA will soon be subscribing to the excellent Alexander Street Press Underground Comics Volumes 1 and 2 database. As soon as full access to these is arranged, this post will be updated.
You will be able to access the database via: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/databases-subject-a-z/database-design
We already have online access to the British Cartoon Archive from the University of Kent.
You can also access Comic Book Plus, a free online resource at http://comicbookplus.com. We found Comic Book Plus on http://openglam.org/open-collections/ which gives free access to the online collections of galleries, libraries, archives and museums, and is worth exploring!
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.
