Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia The fourth year of the Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia concluded on 31st March 2025. Seven students (and one staff volunteer) completed this extracurricular digital research project amassing both the requisite 55-80 hours of volunteering time AND the significant & demonstrable impact in improving the topic coverage of their […]
Read moreIn my second month as the DLAM Digital Accessibility Intern, I’ve been contributing key accessibility and UX improvements to an open-source sheet music application. This blog describes how a GenAI workflow helped fast-track my understanding of Python coding, and allowed me to make impactful changes to an open-source project, through a process I call “Educated Prompting”.
Read moreThanks to a request from staff in History, the Library currently has trial access to Muteferriqa: Ottoman Turkish Discovery Portal. …Continue reading →
Read moreThe last ALT-C I attended was when it was hosted here in at The University of Edinburgh in the impressive McEwan Hall in 2019, just before the world changed. So it felt appropriate that the opening Keynote by Chris Friend (Keane University, USA) ‘Human…
Read moreWelcome, and welcome back, to all students starting the new academic year this week! Whether you are one of the …Continue reading →
Read moreWe have been looking at the data about students attending skills courses. At University of Edinburgh students have a choice of whether to work through online materials in LinkedIn Learning at their own pace or to attend synchronous teacher-led sessions with our Digital Skills Training team, in person or via webinars. The data show that …
Read moreI’m happy to let you know that the Library currently has extended trial access to AM Explorer, your gateway to …Continue reading →
Read moreThe University of Edinburgh hosted the Association of British Theological and Philosophical Libraries conference this year at New College on …Continue reading →
Read moreHere we are midway through the first semester, and you may start to feel like you should be looking ahead …Continue reading →
Read moreReading Time: < 1 minute It’s finally here! The third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” colouring book has been in the works all summer, and is finally ready to be shared! This edition has been a huge group effort, and took a lot of collaboration from the Edinburgh community. Over a series of three workshops, UoE students, professors, […]
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