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Author: Sara Day Thomson

Preserving BITs – An Online Exhibition about the Preservation of an IT Bulletin at the University of Edinburgh

In 1990, Edinburgh University Computing Service (EUCS) launched the Bulletin of IT Services – or BITs for short. Produced by the staff in the EUCS team, BITs reported on the latest developments in communications and information technology at the University until Information Services was formed in the early 2000s. The newsletter charts the growth of […]

9th August 2024 0

The University of Edinburgh Becomes the First UK University to Appoint a Web Archivist to Preserve 21st Century History

The University of Edinburgh has appointed its first Web Archivist to capture and preserve important University web pages. The University has in fact appointed the very first dedicated Web Archivist of any non-legal deposit university in the UK! Since early 2022, the University Library has been archiving health-related websites as part of the Wellcome-funded Archive […]

26th April 2023 0

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