Creative Arts Book of the Week 07/12/15
The making of Avatar by Jody Duncan & Lisa Fitzpatrick This week’s Book of the Week is about one of the most famous films of the past few years. In 1995, James Cameron began working on a story that would, …
Category: Subjects: Technology
Technology Book of the Week 4/12/15
This is probably straying into the science areas, but as it has such direct applications to technology, we’re going to include it anyway. In Search of Time: journeys along a curious dimension by Dan Falk.
IEEE usage
We’re always excited to see, sometimes expensive, databases being well used and our IEEE Explore database is just one of the many technology databases we collect statistics on. The top five journals with the most downloads for September were all …
Technology Book of the Week 3/11/15
Digital Drawing for Designers: a visual guide to AutoCAD 2015 by Douglas R. Seidler. Books in the 620s aren’t often very attractive to look at but this is an exception in being both well-designed and containing a feast of illustrations …
Technology Book of the Week 28/10/15
This isn’t so much a book of the week as a series of the week. The Library has acquired a host of ‘A Very Short Introduction’ titles which range across wide variety of subjects. The two highlighted here are just …
Material ConneXions
Material ConneXion is on trial until 3rd November. It is a great resource for students of architecture and interior architecture and anyone looking at product design or building materials. Material ConneXion owns the world’s largest collection of unique, innovative and sustainable materials. …
Fascination
While we’ve been on leave, another issue of Fascination has been posted. So if you want to read about bee blooms blossoming, a possible new vaccine for polio, or Cherenkov Telescope Array – or a host of other technology and …
Free trial: IET Engineering & Technology Reference
We are pleased to announce a trial of technology reference database IET Engineering & Technology Reference, available both on and off campus until 1st January 2016.
The Martian
A year or two back we stumbled across Andy Weir’s spellbinding novel The Martian. One of few books that really is unputdownable once it has you in its grip. It’s coming out as a film soon and we’ve just seen …
New e-resources for you this Spring – ebook collections
We are pleased to offer new ebook collections from Wiley, MIT, Ebsco and ICE in support of Engineering and Computer Science. These are currently available through the following platforms: Via the Discovery Service Ebsco Mobile Technology 2014 ebook Collection Ebsco Civil Engineering 2015 ebook Collection Ebsco …
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