Soft Furnishing Upholstery Works A number of soft seating areas within the library will undergo upholstery work during the summer – these include stools within the study pods on the ground floor, 1st floor …Continue reading →

Study Pods – Audio Visual Upgrade Over the summer, we will also be upgrading the audio-visual kit in the Student Study Pods on the ground and first floor of the Main Library. The refresh will increase …Continue reading →

PC Upgrades – Main Library We have started on a programme to upgrade all PCs on floors 3 & 4 to new HP EliteOne 800 G2 Models. This work will continue over the summer.  The …Continue reading →

Media Hopper TAGS: image management | media If you have not already done so, do check out our new media asset management solution – Media Hopper – a new service that puts video at the heart of teaching, …Continue reading →

Celebrating Shakespeare With the 400th anniversary this year of the death of one of our greatest and most influential playwrights, William Shakespeare, I found myself cropping images of some of his first …Continue reading →

A Passage to India – Part 1 TAGS: conservation | indian paintings | tasawir In this week’s blog, Special Collections Conservator Emily, describes the first stage of conserving a collection of Indian portraits… I was recently asked to complete a condition report and treatment …Continue reading →

The Battle of Jutland – 100 years on TAGS: Battle of Jutland | German Fleet | Grand Fleet | High Seas Fleet | My boy Jack | Navy | Rudyard Kipling | Scapa Flow | Sea Warfare | World War I | WW1 This week sees the hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Jutland, the largest and most important naval engagement of the First World War, and also a particularly Scottish event, as …Continue reading →

Oxford Bibliographies – additional modules purchased TAGS: American Literature | anthropology | Biblical Studies | British and Irish Literature | Criminology | databases | education | Hindu Studies | International Law | International Relations | Jewish Studies | linguistics | Oxford Bibliographies | Oxford University Press | psychology | Social Work | Sociology Following a successful trial at the end of last year, Oxford Bibliographies modules have been purchased in the following subject areas: American Literature Anthropology Biblical Studies British and Irish Literature …Continue reading →

Stuck with your dissertation literature search? Try this. TAGS: academic support librarian | literature searching Are you stuck with the literature search for your dissertation? Not finding as much on your topic as you hoped? Here are five suggestions to help you move forward.

Africa Wide Information – database trial TAGS: Africa Wide Information | agriculture | art | Biodiversity | Cultural history and heritage | databases | Development | Drama | Ebsco | Economics | health | history | Industry | Legal systems | Literature | Mining | music | Natural resources | Politics | religion | sport The Library has set up trial access to Africa Wide Information (Ebsco) until 30th June. Africa-Wide Information comprises an aggregation of 50 databases sourced from Africa, Europe and North America.  …Continue reading →