Monthly Archives: February 2011
IOE Digital Education Research Archive is launched
For many years now, online publishing has become more and more prevalent, and indeed the preferred mode of publishing for many organisations, including many official bodies. Publications may be freely and easily accessible at the time of publishing, but subsequently … Continue reading
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Tagged access, BECTA, DERA, education, Official Publications
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How our library can help you save your library
From our guest blogger, Christina Egan Everywhere, public libraries are threatened with closure, depriving citizens of education and communication, especially those who need it most. You might feel sure that people need libraries and books, but how do you prove … Continue reading
Online journals go from strength to strength
IOE students and staff downloaded online full text journal articles a total of 240,577 times during 2010. This total represents both PDF and HTML onscreen views. Our ‘top ten’ most popular online journals in terms of full text downloads, accounted for 31,469 of these views. These titles … Continue reading
Continuing restricted access to Special Collections in the Library
Work to create a mezzanine floor in our biggest store room, which will greatly increase our storage space, is almost complete but we do not expect to gain access to Special Collections until the end of March. The following collections … Continue reading
Charles Darwin display
From our guest blogger, Elizabeth Did you know that Charles Darwin was mad on worms? He brought them into the house and had his wife play the piano to them to see if they responded to music, he shouted at … Continue reading
Five minute interview with… our Deputy Archivist
I asked Becky a few questions about her role. Here’s what she had to say; What does an archivist do? (in a nutshell!) A whole range of things – and that is one of the great attractions about the job. … Continue reading
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Tagged access, archive, archivist, archivist job role, Eileen Maloney, George and Judith Baines
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Staying on top of official publications
A recent question regarding the availability or otherwise of the Robbins Report into Higher Education from 1963 in digital form on an education librarians’ mailing list highlighted two excellent resources for finding this sort of material. In a way they … Continue reading
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Tagged access, education, Guides, Official Publications
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Interested in using archives but have no idea where to start? Then read on….
Everyone can relate to those time-consuming and frustrating searches that result in – well, let’s face it – not much to show for the effort. If you are planning to use archives, those searches can be even more frustrating. But fear not! … Continue reading
Archives in the news: preservation of the BBC website
While browsing the Metro in the staffroom this lunchtime I was interested to see this article on how a member of the public took it upon himself to harvest parts of the BBC website that were about to be sent to … Continue reading
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