This week’s book, Magazine Movements is by Dr. Laurel Forster, from UoP’s School of Media and Performing Arts. It extends the current research on women’s magazines into broadcast programmes as well as print media, defining magazines as ‘any media genre of …
We’ve begun to build on the skills of our enquiries team with a series of masterclasses, aimed at subjects which use more specialist subject resources. The first masterclass was dedicated to architecture and led by Lizzie, the Assistant Faculty Librarian, …
I wanted to add my research monograph: “Fish I have known and loved, an anthology of Pinterest” into the University research repository so you could all read it, but I was told that a profound love of mackerel and a life …
What does it mean when it says, “Thank you for deleting all the financial records of the University Library”? I am going to blame this on keyboards not being designed for those of us with flippers!
Others in the Metadata Team also repair books that have suffered a little wear and tear. They tend to have more success than I did when I tried.
This year the Library has provided access to 3,946 new e-books and 661 databases and made them available on Discovery and the library catalogue. All this requires people to make sure the “metadata” is all present and correct.
More books! Our students demand it. So do their lecturers for that matter. All the orders from academics and the Faculty Librarians are fed into a big computer in P&M that talks to another computer owned by a big book supplier “across …
I asked one of the nice Library Assistants why we still had any journals in print. “Is it because some people like to harken back to “ye good olde” days when electronic resources were limited to light switches and portable heaters?” …
A knock at the door told us more printed journals had arrived, and what a lot of those there were, too! Despite having thousands of electronic journals, we still receive 639 different titles in print. A short waddle to the …
Until today, I thought P&M was a clothing brand from the 1970s but apparently it stands for “Procurement and Metadata”, which I understand to be professional shorthand for “buying and labelling”. I got to try my flipper at what P&M …
