Support for revising from home

The University has a wide range of guidance and support for students revising for exams from home.
The IAD provides an online Exam Bootcamp on Learn, which includes revision advice. See https://www.ed.ac.uk/institute-academic-development/undergraduate/exambootcamp

You can also find lots of great online guidance and training on the IAD Study Hub at https://www.ed.ac.uk/institute-academic-development/undergraduate/learning-resource

 
You might also find the myriad online resources available on LinkedIn Learning to be very useful when you are revising from home: go to https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/linkedin-learning
 

Working online using digital library resources

All students are encouraged to access our many digital library resources to help continue their studies remotely.
You can access the library journal article databases for your subject here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/databases-subject-a-z
You can access your subject guides here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/subject-guides
You can make full use of LinkedIn Learning resources here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/linkedin-learning
The Library catalogue DiscoverEd includes thousands of ebooks and full text e-journal articles. Go to https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery
Ensure you can access all these resources remotely from home by registering with the VPN (virtual private network), see https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/computing/desktop-personal/vpn

Voyage boxed: sea journeys, island hopping & trans-oceanic concepts

Our new display at ECA Library features Voyage boxed: sea journeys, island hopping & trans-oceanic concepts, curated by Imi Maufe and Rona Rangsch, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, c.2014.
This beautiful Artists’ Book consists of a collection of art works and an exhibition catalogue issued in a square box. The collection of artworks consist primarily of printed material on paper, a combination of single sheets and booklets, one wooden board printed in colour with string with a small sheet folded concertina style attached, plus a compact disc of ocean wave sounds. The artworks are either 15 x 15 cm, or folded to approximately the same size. Leaves of clear wax paper are interspersed between each work. The artworks are variously photographs, collages, drawings and poetry.
The box also includes one crumpled corner of a map of Shetland (20 x 20 cm), crumpled tissue paper, an unbleached fabric ribbon and a small ceramic egg, in a cloth bag with drawstring.
The 20 artists collaborating in this work included Nancy Campbell, David Faithfull, Christine Morrison and Ian Stephen.
Accompanying CD: Sea of curves, by Jeff Talman, with researchers Matt Fowler and James Traer.
Published in a signed and numbered edition of 50 copies.
ECA Library’s copy is number 42.

RIPM Jazz Periodicals online archive trial goes live!

We are delighted to announce that our trial access to RIPM Jazz Periodicals online archive is now active.
RIPM Jazz is a fully searchable rich and extensive collection of American Jazz Periodicals, a key primary source reference and research tool for all libraries. It benefits from RIPM’s partnership with the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, which holds one of the most extensive collections of jazz periodicals in the world.
To access the trial go to https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/e-resources-trials
Enjoy!

Digital resource trials for ECA students

ECA Library has organised a couple of digital resource trials which are open to all ECA and UoE students and staff.
Our current trials are for:
1: Yale A&A E-Portal. This gives access to Yale press ebooks and a very smart image search function, and will be of most use to History of Art students and also architectural history and design students.
2: Bloomsbury Architecture Library. This gives access to a wealth of architecture ebooks, and the complete digital Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture.
To access both of these trials and several others, go to https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/e-resources-trials
In a few days’ time our trial access to RIPM Jazz Periodicals online database should also go live and will be accessible from the above link.

Festive season opening and closing hours at ECA libraries

Please note the following arrangements for opening and closing of the ECA Libraries at the end of Semester 1, 2023:

ECA Library at Evolution House, West Port: The ECA Library will be open until 5.00pm on Thursday 21st December. The Library will re-open at 9.00am on Wednesday 3rd January 2024. For more information check here.   The ECA Library telephone number is 0131 651 5700.

Art & Architecture Library at Minto House, Chambers Street:
The A&A Library will be open until 5.00pm on Thursday 21st December. The Library will re-open at 9.00am on Wednesday 3rd January 2024. For more information please check here.

Main Library, George Square:
The Main Library at George Square will have some limited opening hours during the vacation, apart from on 25th, 26th December and 1st-2nd January, when it will be closed. For more information please check here.

Happy holidays!