Extra Study Room

We’ve shuffled some of the Library staff around, and released an office which is now set up as an extra Study Room. Study Room 7 has a PC and VHS player, but as yet no DVD player. As soon as DVD is installed, we’ll update the Blog.
UPDATE – DVD/VHS unit now installed!
 

Children’s Author Competition

The Times is running a Children’s Author Competition.  See http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/Children_s_author_competition/ for more details.

A little light reading!

As well as supporting your academic needs, the Library wants to help keep you entertained! We’ve got a small collection of recent novels, which can be found on the stand next to the Rental DVDs. So, even though the public library is closed for the next couple of months, you can still keep up with [...]

Newspapers

From today we are taking The Sun, Mirror, Mail and Express newspapers (Monday to Saturday).  They can be found with our other newspapers on the ground floor of the library.  Online access to these and many other local and national newspapers is available through Newsbank (access via the library website > Search Online Resources > Online Newspapers). 

Library Satisfaction Survey

Results!

Library Computers

Next time you visit, you will notice many changes that have taken place over the summer.  The IT centre has moved to the Kenneth Kettle Building, to make way for a new law library.  Don’t worry though, we still have a good provision of computers, but they can now be found on every floor of [...]

Inscriptions in Books

Interesting blog where people can send in inscriptions that they find in books.  The project has been taken over by Found magazine.  Most of the inscriptions are from people who are giving the book as a gift.
Site found through 52 projects blog. 

Reading for life and leisure in the library

In a recent survey of UK academic libraries in the university sector, we were the only one to reply with a general reading/browsing collection, as opposed to a purely course-related collection of materials for loan.
 
Over the past few years we have bought books, CDs and Rental DVDs in the following categories:
Local history, Cookery, Travel, Dance, [...]

BBC to release archive online free to those with a license fee

Soon we should be able to view online, many of items from the BBC archive.  They will allow those who have paid their license fee (how they will do that online, I’ve not heard.   I’m sure it will have something to do with signing up on the website, and then getting approval back for access.)  
“Up to a million hours of broadcasting [...]