Monthly Archives: July 2011
How DERA was built
I’ve written an article about Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA) which appears in the current issue of Ariadne (no. 67). It describes the impetus which led us to develop the DERA as well as some of the technical and IPR … Continue reading
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Tagged DERA, Digital Education Resource Archive, Official Publications, Preservation
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EndNote X5
EndNote X5 for Windows has just been released with some great new features also summarised in this short video. Enhancements include – Automatic transfer of references AND file attachments between desktop EndNote and EndNote Web. Viewing and annotating attached PDFs within the library window. Automated update to existing … Continue reading
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Tagged Bibliography Management, EndNote, eResources, Software
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Umbrella and Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA)
I attended Umbrella 2011 last week – a conference and exhibition which attracted over 500 delegates from all sectors of the library and information world. I was there with a poster, hoping to spread the word about DERA to a … Continue reading
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Tagged DERA, Digital Education Resource Archive, Umbrella 2011
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A new look for the Web of Knowledge
The Web of Knowledge is launched on a new platform (v5.3) on Sunday 17th July. The IOE subscription to this important citation searching database comprises the Web of Science (1898-present) featuring scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities including the Conference … Continue reading
From the Colonial Department to the Department of Education in Tropical Areas
Just found a letter from previous Institute Director, GB Jeffery, to Professor Margaret Read, regarding the proposed name change of the Colonial Department to the Department of Tropical Education. Jeffery states “‘Tropical education’, if it means anything at all, means education … Continue reading
School histories and the home front
The library’s recent launch of the School Histories book collection prompted me to think about how local film archives often have material relevant to schools and local historians. The collective site of the UK’s film archives, Moving History, provides a … Continue reading
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Tagged archive film; history;, film archives, school histories;
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Book Sale 15th July
Just a reminder that you have another opportunity to buy some books from our ongoing book sale and help us to raise money to catalogue and preserve recently acquired stock. The book sale is open again on Friday (15th July), 10 – 4 … Continue reading
The IOE’s colonial past
I recently started cataloguing the records of the Colonial Department, which include some of the oldest Institute records we hold in the archive. I won’t try to sum up the entire history of the department in this post as it … Continue reading
New home for NUWT posts
I’m having so much fun, and finding so much interesting material whilst cataloguing the NUWT Collection that I thought I would start a blog specifically for the project! I keep noticing related material in other archives, events, television programmes, films etc … Continue reading
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