Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Rehousing Books and Paper Bindings
In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses her Decorated Paper rehousing …Continue reading →
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ALT-C 2023
2023 marks the 30th year of ALT (Association for Learning Technology) and this year’s conference themes were: Leading People in a time of complexity; Diversity and Inclusion; Sustainability and Social Justice; and Emerging technologies and behaviors, h…
Read moreNew ebooks: Hart Law 2023 collection
Welcome to the Law School to all our new students and welcome back to our returning students! You’ll be glad …Continue reading →
Read moreUsability testing a combined navigation solution with representative EdWeb sites
We used prototypes based on two different EdWeb sites to test the usability of a navigation scheme comprising a top menu combined with a left-hand menu. In previous rounds of testing, we established that a top menu drop-down populated with menu items from the top three levels of a site presented usability issues to people […]
Read moremenopause at work
I was delighted to be invited out to our beautiful Easter Bush Campus at Roslin this week to deliver a session on the hot topic of menopause. We talked about feeling the rage and laughed about losing your nouns. Thank you to everyone who came along. If you would like to organise a session like …
Read moreHonorary Life Membership of ALT
I’m hugely honoured to have been awarded Honorary Life Membership of the Association for Learning Technology at ALT’s 30th Annual Conference Gala at the University of Warwick. Unfortunately I wasn’t there to receive the award in person because, in a stroke of spectacularly bad timing, I’ve come down with a really horrible cold. Though as […]
Read moreImage to Text: Exploring Text Extraction Processes in L&UC
Since April I have been an intern with the University of Edinburgh’s Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service (CHDS) and the Centre …Continue reading →
Read moreNew trial: Oxford Encyclopedia of EU Law
You may be interested to know about a trial we have currently running for the Oxford Encyclopedia of EU Law. …Continue reading →
Read moreBritish Sign Language and Media Production
A couple of months ago we were asked if we could add BSL to an existing student support animation. Although we hadn’t done this before, here at the Media Studio we are always trying to support all University staff, so we were encouraged to team up with…
Read moreEnd of the Open Content Curation Internship
I regret to say that my internship is now coming to an end. It is incredibly bitter-sweet, and I am […]
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