5 minutes with… Tony Simmonds, Senior Research Librarian (Social Sciences)
October 24, 2016
Welcome to our series ‘5 minutes with …’, where we introduce staff working within the Libraries Research and Learning Resources at the University of Nottingham. Tony Simmonds has kindly agreed to talk to us about his role and open access at the University. Questions: Hello Tony, could you tell us more about your role? I’m …
5 minutes with… Robert Pearce, Conservator for Manuscripts and Special Collections
August 3, 2016
Welcome to the latest in our series of Blog posts ‘5 minutes with …’, that introduce staff who work in LRLR at the University of Nottingham. We are a large department of around 250 staff based across all campuses and doing a wide variety of jobs relating to libraries, collections, teaching and learning, and research …
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 …
University of Nottingham Library Research Week Symposium
April 11, 2016
Between 29 February and 4 March 2016, Libraries, Research and Learning Resources (LRLR) hosted Library Research Week. The highlight of the week was the first ever Library Research Week Symposium, held on Wednesday 2 March. The excellent line up of speakers included Professor Dame Jessica Corner DBE Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange, and representatives …
Vice-Chancellor’s Medal winner for library development
April 5, 2016
We don’t often make time to step back and celebrate our successes. The Vice-Chancellor’s Medal encourages us to do just that and indeed to think broadly about achievements. It is an annual award for exceptional achievement by staff or students. Any current member of staff or student at any of the University’s campuses in China, …
