Cleaning Dirty Pages – The Power of the Smoke Sponge
By Abigail Hartley, Appraisal Archivist and Archive Collections Manager Moray House School of Education has a long and often complicated …Continue reading →
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My first week as an Open Educational Resources Intern
Hello! I’m Charlotte, this year’s Open Educational Resources (OER) summer intern within the University’s Information Services Group. My first week […]
Read moreTesting Our Readiness: Learn Resilience Exercise
On Tuesday 2 June, colleagues from LTW teams came together for a Learn Resilience Exercise. The purpose was to test how we would respond if one of the University’s key teaching and learning systems became unavailable, and to think practically about wha…
Read moreMy Wikimedia journey so far
“I started my internship as an Assistant Wikimedian in Residence almost four months ago, and it has already been one of the most rewarding work experiences I have had.”
Read moreOn the threat of mass redundancy
For three days this week, colleagues at the University of Edinburgh are striking as part of UCU Edinburgh‘s ongoing industrial dispute with university management. Colleagues are protesting against the threat of mass redundancies resulting from a manufactured financial crisis. Many hidden redundancies have already taken place through non-renewal of contracts and staff opting to leave […]
Read moreAn ever-green collaboration: working with the University of St Andrews to identify arsenical bookbindings
In this post conservator Amy Baldwin talks about working with the University of St Andrews to help develop their new …Continue reading →
Read moreAstronaut Dr Kathy Sullivan at the Media Studio
We’ve had the privilege of welcoming a variety of experts into the studio: from climate scientists and human rights lawyers to leading figures in AI, and everything in between. One of the perks of my job is that I get to film and edit incredibly …
Read more2024 End of Year Reflection
It’s become a bit of a tradition for me to share an end of year reflection in January, I always intend to do this in December, but it never happens, so January it is. I’ve been in two minds whether to write one this year though because 2024 did not go as expected. At the […]
Read moreGiving Decorated Paper a Home … Loose-leaf Material
In this post, Technician Robyn Rogers discusses her bespoke mounting and rehousing of loose-leaf papers from the University’s decorated paper …Continue reading →
Read moreCeltic Knot Wikipedia Language Conference – “Strength in Unity”
“We are not minority languages, we are minoritised. And we are the global majority” – Tura Arutura, Social Justice activist, creative artist and dancer. At the end of September, I had the great good fortune to be invited to the Celtic Knot conference in Waterford, Ireland hosted by Wikimedia Ireland and Wikimedia UK. This conference […]
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