Turner & Paige no.33 Oct. 29th 2015
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Map projection transitions
An earlier posting (Maps have been lying to you) showed the effect that the Mercator map projection has on the way we perceive the world. The challenge of portraying on a flat surface the essentially spherical shape of our planet …
Penguins love poems!
Yesterday was National Poetry Day. Unfortunately, as is sometimes the way in a busy workplace, all our best intentions fell by the wayside as we dealt with a plethora of enquiries. We failed to blog (as planned) about poems we …
Turner & Paige no.32 Oct. 9th 2015
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Maps have been lying to you
All maps (necessarily) lie to you. It is impossible to unwrap the surface of the near-spherical Earth and lay it out as a flat sheet, and so cartographers (map makers) have to decide what features they wish to accurately preserve and then then …
Creative Arts Book of the Week 5/10/15
This week I’ve chosen to look at, The storytelling animal: How stories make us human by Jonathan Gottschall. I was interested to read about the forthcoming Ink: well project and thought I would like to learn more about the psychology …
Turner & Paige no.31 Oct. 2nd 2015
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Tiaras, Tiffin, and Teamwork
There are many things library staff here are good at. Delivering excellent customer service, promoting information literacy, cataloging, public speaking, delivering training, organising stock, managing online information, singing our own praises, baking, dressing up, eating cake, raising money for charity…
The Game’s Afoot
For last year’s induction week, the Library scripted and filmed a short film that introduced the Library and its surroundings to new students in a lighthearted and entertaining manner for those new to the university and to develop writing and …
Creative Arts Book of the Week 28/09/15
Channel 4 and British film culture It’s always satisfying to review a title produced by ‘one of our own’ so here’s a a collection of academic journal articles printed in book form and co-edited by Justin Smith. Those of you …
