Food and World War One
Food during the Great War was the topic under investigation this morning as library staff attended an end of term talk. It’s become a bit of a tradition that during the last week of each term, our staff development events …
Discovery Service, Business Source Complete, Ebsco e-journals, – what’s the difference for Business Students?
I have been asked by several Business School students about the various e-services provided by a company called Ebsco. Here are a few guidelines I use:
We’re wearing our hats for #WearAHatDay
#WearAHatDay is the UK’s largest and most famous national brain tumour awareness and fundraising campaign, created by Brain Tumour Research. They run #WearAHatDay as an awareness raising campaign throughout March, which is National Brain Tumour Awareness Month. As our …
Tunnock’s Tea Cakes
You know what I mean, those chocolate covered marshmallow domes of loveliness! And what’s got me thinking about these today? Well when I arrived on the second floor of the library I was greeted by the new edition of Eye: …
What do our students think?
“What do our students think?” is a question often asked in your Library. We love to listen to what you think about us and what you would like to see happen. As part of the ongoing conversation with our clients, …
Stars in the Aisles
Attended the preview of a fun exhibition in Eldon last night, Stars in the Aisles: A History of the Cinema Usherette. We were served ice-cream by an usherette and there was plenty of popcorn to go around too! Eva Balogh, …
Architects’ drawings of your new Library space
In a recent post we unveiled the plans showing the added benefits you will be able to enjoy from next Autumn. Here are the architects’ images of what the ground floor of the Library will look like after the remodelling.
The Web is 25 Today
Today is the 25th anniversary of Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitting a paper entitled “Information Management: A Proposal” which served as the basis for what we all now know as the World Wide Web. But in the early ’90s, the early …
Get up to speed with online reading lists
Looking forward to explaining to Creative Technologies staff why online reading lists are important for their students. This takes place on Wednesday 12 March at 13.00 in Eldon 0.20. I’m sure any member of staff in CCi would find it …
Shaping our Future
Students and staff around the University are being invited to take part in ‘Shaping Our Future’ – an exercise that looks at where we might be in fifteen years time. With themes such as ‘our students and their expectations’, ‘our …
