Another interesting week, helping students with some last minute referencing enquiries prior to dissertation hand-ins. I really enjoy seeing what they’ve spent the last 6 months or so working on. This week, I’ve learnt something about Snapchat and am really …
I’ve been meeting lots of students over the past few weeks for dissertation and project tutorials. It gives me great pleasure to see the enthusiasm for whatever it is they have decided to research. As well as helping them to …
How do you choose a book? Do you judge a book by its cover? Do you look for something light enough to carry in your bag? Well, I was drawn to this book, partly by the cover and partly by the title, …
Pluralsight Creative? Will that ever catch on? Perhaps it is only difficult for those of us familiar with its old name, Digital Tutors. Whatever the name students, particularly those in the School of Creative Technologies, will love this resource. It …
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https://youtu.be/wptzVm0tngc Patience was once a virtue, now everything seems to be going faster. Watching something change over months has given way to time-lapse photography, faithfully chronicling in just seconds changes that took months to happen. Time-lapse videos have not always …
It can sometimes be difficult, separated as we are from departments and the assessment process, to place our work as enquiries staff into the wider context of academic output and achievement. Sure, we see essays and dissertations on screens as …
If you are graduating this year, or just happen to be passing, you can have your photo taken with Pablo the Library Penguin from 12-1 pm and 4-5 pm on graduation days this summer outside the Library. Take the ultimate Uni selfie …
Word & Image. Art, Books and Design: from the National Art Library Edited by Rowan Watson, Elizabeth James and Julius Bryant. I first saw this lovely book in the V&A bookshop and decided it was a ‘must buy’ for our …
Composite Landscapes: Photomontage and Landscape Architecture is the book I’ve chosen from the display this week. I like books that can be used by lots of different audiences and this one might be useful for artists, photographers or landscape architects. This …
This Saturday is National Libraries Day, when people everywhere show their support for their local libraries. Join in the fun and share a ‘shelfie’ (or any sort of selfie in your new social learning space) with us on Twitter or …
