Professional Recognition for Library teaching with the Higher Education Academy
We recently celebrated the success of the latest member of the Academic Support Librarian team to gain Fellowship of the …Continue reading →
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Canvas User Group: Exciting updates from the Birmingham meet-up
With the first phase of the Early Adopter Project complete for the new Short Courses Platform, we attended our first Canvas User Group at the University of Birmingham. We spent the day finding out the latest updates to the learning platform, and discus…
Read moreTeaching data literacy with real world (witchy) datasets
Our Digital Humanities award-winning interactive map (witches.is.ed.ac.uk) caught the public’s attention when it launched in September 2019 and has helped to change the way the stories of these women and men were being told with a campaign group, Witches of Scotland, successfully lobbying the Scottish Government into issuing a formal apology from the former First […]
Read moreCanvas User Group at the University of Birmingham
Following the procurement of a solution to deliver an end to end Short Courses Platform for all non-credit short courses using Instructure (Canvas) and Drieam (Eduframe), we were delighted to attend our first Canvas User group at the University of Birm…
Read moreFirst steps with AI – new guide to help you best use ELM, our internal AI tool.
Space designed to inform how you can use our internal AI to enhance your work experience. For quite some time, LTW’s own AI Knowledge Hub has been available in the Generative AI Resource and Information Hub for LTW on SharePoint. It is aimed at providing general information on available AI tools and the associated ethical […]
Read moreSustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles
In this post, our Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses the recyclable book cradles she has developed as part of the conservation …Continue reading →
Read moreArchival Provenance Project: Emily’s finds
My name is Emily, and I’m the second of the two archive interns that are currently working on the …Continue reading →
Read moreA Whole University Approach to Sustainability
The University’s efforts to fight the climate crisis are incorporated across everything we do, including work to reduce carbon emissions and embed sustainability into research, teaching and governance, operations, and partnerships. This includes the wo…
Read moreTheir Finest Hour Archive Launch
On the 6th June, the online archive for Their Finest Hour will be launched, after 73 Digital Collection Day events took place across the UK in 2023 and 2024, including the one that we ran at the University of Edinburgh on 25 November 2023,. Overall, Th…
Read moreEdinburgh Open Research Conference 2024
Join us on May 29th for the 2024 edition of the Open Research Conference. This year we are addressing the …Continue reading →
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