The University is working to develop a more inclusive curriculum, to make our teaching more inclusive and more responsive to our diverse student body. It is doing this through the University of Leicester Institute for Inclusivity in Higher Education (ULIIHE) and through department and school initiatives like MedRACE. ULIIHE’s Racial Inclusivity Toolkit is full of […]
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Introducing the SafePod – a new way to access sensitive data
The door to the SafePod on the ground floor of the David Wilson Library The Library is now home to a SafePod: a local, safe environment where researchers can access sensitive datasets. Registered researchers can now use specialist data from the UK Data Service, SAIL Databank, Office for National Statistics, the Scottish Government and Health […]
Mapping the City with Electric Paint
In 2019 I attended an Oral History Society networker event at the British Library and was impressed with work that the Library had done with students from the Royal College of Art School of Communication. In particular, a ‘sonic quilt’, created by Karthika Sakthivel, used sensors in the fabric to trigger oral history sound clips […]
University of Leicester is now a supporter of DOAJ
We are delighted to announce that University of Leicester is now an institutional supporter of the Directory Open Access Journals (DOAJ). As part of our commitment to supporting open scholarship, we have signed-up as an official supporter (in the sustaining category). DOAJ is an index of open access journals from around the world. It […]
UK Disability History Month 2022: Uncovering the history of the Fielding Johnson Building
16 November to 16 December 2022 is UK Disability History Month, an annual event creating a platform to focus on the history of the rights and dignity of disabled people. Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting some aspects of our collections relating to the history of disability. Some of the collection items […]
UK Disability History Month 2022: The Mosaic Oral History Collection
16 November to 16 December 2022 is UK Disability History Month, an annual event creating a platform to focus on the history of the rights and dignity of disabled people. Over the next four weeks, we will be highlighting some aspects of our collections relating to the history of disability. Some of the collection items […]
Managing your own personal digital archive
In a second post related to World Digital Preservation Day, 3 November 2022, I thought I would share the tips that our University Records Manager, David Jenkins and I (Vicky Holmes, University Archivist) gave at some informal sessions run on 3 November about managing your own digital archive. We are all dealing with a deluge […]
International Open Access Week: Open for Climate Justice
The theme chosen this year by the International Open Access Week advisory committee for International Open Access Week 2022 is “Open for Climate Justice” (October 24-30). As described on the OA week website: This year’s focus on Climate Justice seeks to encourage connection and collaboration among the climate movement and the international open community. Sharing […]
World Digital Preservation Day 2022
I last wrote a blog about our digital preservation activity in 2018, nearly a year after I started at Leicester, and thought the forthcoming World Digital Preservation Day 2022 would be a good opportunity reflect back over the last few years and the progress we have made. Obviously, the pandemic changed our ways of working […]
My role: library adviser, Archives and Special Collections
Hello – my name is Eleanor Bloomfield and I am the (relatively) new library adviser for Archives and Special Collections. I look after the reading room every weekday morning (my role’s ‘other half’, Ian Swirles, covers the afternoons). Originally from New Zealand, my background is in teaching, research and historically informed theatre – mainly Shakespeare […]