The Reading List
A podcast in which members of the University talk to Dr Emma Parker about their favourite book. A must-hear for all who love reading for pleasure.
Robert MacFarlane
Robert Macfarlane, scientist and writer, has been on Desert Island Discs. Members of the university can hear him on BoB Members of the David Wilson Library can also borrow Robert’s books
CILIP children’s book medal winners 2017
The CILIP medals have been announced. http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/2017-winners-announced.php We have the books in stock in our resources collection, floor 1, yellow zone. The Carnegie Medal (best children’s book) goes to Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys. Our copy http://librarysearch.le.ac.uk/44UOLE_VU1:default_scope:44UOLE_ALMA21177369560002746 The Kate Greenaway (best illustrated children’s book) goes to There is a tribe of kids, illustrator […]
Jeanette Winterson, tax, libraries and Starbucks, Google and Amazon!
The author Jeanette Winterson delivered the inaugural Reading Agency lecture at the British Library on 19th November. In it she argued that the government should charge Starbucks tax to save libraries. Read more about it on the Reading Agency website http://readingagency.org.uk/news/media/jeanette-winterson-delivers-the-inaugural-the-reading-agency-lecture.html and in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/19/amazon-starbucks-google-libraries-jeanette-winterson
Database of Research on International Education
http://www.idp.com/about-idp/research-database/quick-search.aspx Managed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and containing details of more than 8,000 books, articles, conference papers and reports on various aspects of international education from publishers in Australia and abroad. Monthly updates of new additions are sent to this list. There is also a Twitter feed on the site. Good […]
Free data journalism handbook
Released by European Journalism Centre: http://datajournalismhandbook.org/ A book which introduces you to the basics of data journalism: uses real life case studies from international news rooms. Go behind the scenes at the Guardian data blog. http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/in_the_newsroom_3.html
Hacking the academy
http://www.digitalculture.org/hacking-the-academy/ Access the full text of a new book released by MPublishing, the publishing division of the University of Michigan Library. An interesting example of a book which was produced from crowd sourced content sent in over one week. It covers ways in which ‘the academy’ and university study can be positively transformed using new […]
FRAGEN
http://www.fragen.nu/aletta/fragen Fragen (FRAmes on GENder) is an electronic library of full text feminist works published since the 1960s. It was the result of a pan-European digitization project; The Women’s Library was the UK project partner and joined 28 other women’s libraries, archives and organisations across Europe in choosing key titles of feminist theory. The site […]
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