Five minutes with… Elizabeth Newall
July 26, 2016
Name? Elizabeth Newall Job title? Senior Librarian, Teaching & Learning Support So, what does that mean? I manage a team of 4 librarians who teach students information and digital literacy skills. We work with academic departments and schools to provide different types of information skills teaching at different points in the curriculum when students need …
New news, old news – Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004
In March, we trialled the Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004 giving you access to more than 100 years of the Daily Mail newspaper. During that month, you spent 32,077 minutes searching the archive, you busy lot! Towards the end of this financial year, the library received some grant money which we’re delighted to invest in our collections. …
Light at the end of the tunnel for retroconversion
July 21, 2016
Colleagues old and new came together recently to celebrate the conclusion of the retrospective cataloguing project. The project tackled the problem of catalogue records which were ‘of their time’ and converting them into machine-readable form. Started in 1984, the project took longer to complete than the construction of the Dartford Tunnel – over 30 …
Happy Birthday to us!
July 15, 2016
We cannot believe Library Matters has been here over a year! Our first Blog post ‘Five reasons why you should read Library Matters’ went live on 8 June 2015 and since then we published 85 posts, covering all manner of library topics from singing librarians via student engagement to the glamour of the Oscars. This Blog …
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