Monthly Archives: December 2010
Bookstart: inspiring a lifelong love of books
“For years, the UK’s Bookstart, the first national programme in the world in which free books are distributed to families with babies, has been an inspiring example for many other countries” (Vanobbergen, Bruno , Daems, Marie and Van Tilburg, Sarah(2009) … Continue reading
Digital Researcher
The news about delicious is a reminder about the experimental, and therefore sometimes precarious, nature of Web 2.0 technologies, but their use in research is becoming much more mainstream. The British Library and Vitae are running a free event on February 14th. Aimed at research … Continue reading
Social bookmarking
Over the last two or three years I’ve told lots of people about delicious and how useful it is for keeping track of web pages. I’ve often described it as my favourite social software site. Currently owned by Yahoo, it … Continue reading
Snow in the archive
Now I know what you might be thinking “That can’t be great for the documents”! But I just looked out of the window to see the snow settling and thought, as it’s nearly Christmas, I’d write a quick, frivolous post with some nice snowy … Continue reading
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Free publications from the Textbook Colloquium
Some of you may be aware of the organisation called the Textbook Colloquium, which was concerned with historical studies and research on textbooks. They used to publish a journal called Paradigm. The Colloquium has now ceased to exist, but they … Continue reading
Extended Sunday Opening Hours
From Sunday 9th January 2011 the Library will be open from 11am – 8pm on Sundays. We have implemented this change following feedback from user focus groups earlier in the year.
Colonial Film database
Subtitled ‘Moving images of the British Empire’, this Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project catalogued films from the British colonial period. The project brought together Birkbeck College and University College London with three film archives, the British Film Institute, the Imperial … Continue reading
STOPP press!
I have recently been cataloguing some files from a collection donated to the IOE by an organisation called STOPP (Society of Teachers Opposed to Physical Punishment). When we started discussing how to catalogue the collection I did a little bit of … Continue reading
Christmas Closure
The Library will close for Christmas at 4.30pm on Thursday 23 December and will re-open at 8.30am on Tuesday 4 January 2011. Overnight loans may be borrowed from 12 noon on 23 December but will be due back by 12 … Continue reading
Restricted access to Special Collections in the Library
Over the next couple of months, there will be no access to some of our Archives, Special Collections and stores. Work is starting to create a mezzanine floor in our biggest store room, which will greatly increase our storage space … Continue reading
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