Wikipedia: #1Lib1Ref campaign Research and Learning Services took part in the #1Lib1Ref campaign this morning, celebrating Wikipedia’s 15th birthday by adding 32 new citations to the online encyclopaedia! Many Wikipedia articles have a …Continue reading →

New books for Social and Political Science TAGS: African Studies | Books | International Relations | new | Politics | social anthropology | social policy | Social Work | Sociology | South Asian Studies Thanks to recommendations from members of staff and requests via RAB from students the Library is continually adding new books to its collections both online and in print. Here are just a small number …Continue reading →

Look, there’s a libretto in the library! TAGS: DiscoverEd | Funk | music | New College Library | Pamphlets | rare books It’s not every day that you find a rare edition of Handel’s Messiah in your library but I’m delighted to say that we have one at New College Library! This recently catalogued pamphlet …Continue reading →

Trial access to Voxgov TAGS: databases | International Relations | Politics | Social & Political Sciences Studying American politics? Finding it hard to search for and locate the swathes of information being published by the US Federal Government? Voxgov may be for you. The Library has …Continue reading →

Keeping it in the family TAGS: Bible | Free Church of Scotland | Funk | New College Library | rare books At New College Library we often receive enquiries from individuals interested in researching their family bibles, who have identified that we hold the same or similar edition at New College …Continue reading →

The joy of cataloguing TAGS: Funk | Hymnology | New College Library | rare books One of our Funk Project cataloguers showed me this item The Fullness of Joy by Frances Ridley Havergal (Hymn 3926) this morning. After a humdrum week of working through variant editions …Continue reading →

LibQUAL+ 2015 TAGS: LibQUAL | Library | survey During October and November (19 October- 15 November) the Library will take part in the LibQUAL+ survey. Complete the survey and you could win a Blackwell’s or High Street voucher …Continue reading →

Divinity Approaches to Research – Resources for Jewish Studies TAGS: Divinity | Jewish | Judaism | New College Library Jewish sacred texts, biblical scholarship and devotional works in Hebrew can be discovered throughout New College Library’s Special Collections.

Top five library questions from SPS PG students TAGS: academic support librarian | Endnote | IT Help | JSTOR | SCONUL Access | Social & Political Sciences | study space It was great to meet so many SPS postgraduate students in our Welcome Week workshops on Library Resources. We’ve now put the slides from these sessions up on our subject …Continue reading →

Welcome to arriving students at New College Library! TAGS: New College Library | students A big welcome to all our new students arriving today. New College Library holds over 250,000 volumes, including rich and unique Special Collections, making it one of the leading theological libraries in …Continue reading →