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Learning and Teaching

Pre-Sessional English: Festival of Objects 2022

We hosted an online learning session for the Pre-Sessional English students a few weeks ago. As always, they’ve gone back to their drawing boards and

14 July 2022

Learning and Teaching

Being (Virtually) Human: First Year Experience 2020

After a long summer of preparation, the new First Year Experience course kicked off at GSA on the 19th of November 2020. Slightly different than last year’s course

10 November 2020

Learning and Teaching

Pre-Sessional English and The New Normal

In June, GSA Archives and Collections embarked on the (slightly daunting) task of adapting our teaching activities for the digital realm! The guinea pig for

15 September 2020

Learning and Teaching

Student Group Picks: Top 10

Phew, we’re coming to the end of a busy semester! In October and November, the Archives and Collections have run a total of nineteen student

7 December 2017

Learning and Teaching

Tutorial Tuesday! – How to use our Research Guides

I know you have all been eagerly awaiting the next Tutorial Tuesday, and today’s will be very useful for all those researchers out there. This

7 July 2015

Learning and Teaching

Opening Up Scotland’s Archives – Six Traineeships

The Scottish Council on Archives is currently accepting applications for 6 traineeships (51 weeks/£14, 500) for the Skills for the Future project, Opening Up Scotland’s Archives.

17 June 2015

Learning and Teaching

Tutorial Tuesday – Browsing by Date!

That is right, another Tutorial Tuesday has arrived! This week we are looking at ways of accessing the GSA Archives and Collections, for those artists

26 May 2015

Learning and Teaching

Tutorial Tuesday! – Browsing by Category

When conducting research in an archive it is often necessary to have a specific field of enquiry prepared. This might be a particular person, a

12 May 2015

Learning and Teaching

Tutorial Tuesday! – How to Create an Account

Since the release of our new online catalogue we have been working in the archive to think of ways of highlighting some of its features

28 April 2015

Learning and Teaching

New online catalogue – creating an account and saving your favourites

Creating an account on our new online catalogue will allow you to save items and collections as favourites in your own dedicated area. Once you’ve

12 December 2014

Learning and Teaching

New website and online catalogue – indexing inspiration

Over the years we’ve found that our users, a significant proportion of whom are creative practitioners, like to browse our collections, rather than search for

11 December 2014