Monthly Archives: November 2011
Library Catalogue Temporarily Unavailable
We regret that our Library Catalogue is temporarily unavailable due to flooding at the centre where our database is hosted. Every effort is being made to restore the service as quickly as possible. While our catalogue is unavailable, users can check … Continue reading
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Wednesday 30 November 2011
Due to industrial action the Library will close at 5pm on 30 November.
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Renate Simpson donation of books to IOE library
I was recently contacted by the daughter of Renate Simpson, the author of several books in our collection. Her mother has had to move from her London flat, and her family are sorting out good homes for her extensive and … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, donation, education, Institute of Education, Library Catalogue
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More UK archive film now online
This month the East Anglian Film Archive (EAFA) has completed a major cataloguing and digitisation programme designed to enable wider access to its holdings, and some 200 hours of material is now available online. The EAFA is unusual in that … Continue reading
Heaven opens its portals to me
A delightful email exchange today resulted in an outbreak of singing! When at last all the details of enrolment were complete, a wonderfully patient student found she could use the portal and access our electronic resources. Her response was to … Continue reading
Who next…? : a guide to children’s authors
One of the standard questions that school and children’s librarians get asked is “I enjoyed x, what else can I read?” Well, apart from being one of those questions that can put you on the spot as a librarian, it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged bibliographies, children's authors, Curriculum Resources
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SCONUL Access Survey 2011
Do you use other academic libraries? Would you like to? Can you get what you need? The Higher Education library community wants to provide the best possible service to students, researchers and staff who, for all sorts of reasons, wish … Continue reading
Finding the unexpected
A quiet (and rather dreary) Monday afternoon calls for some cataloguing – a bit of a luxury at the moment! I’m currently listing the records of the English Section of the New Education Fellowship (later the World Education Fellowship). The files … Continue reading
Ex-Service Students at the London Day Training College
Last year one of our volunteers wrote a post about the impact of the First World War on staff at the London Day Training College (as the Institute was then called). During the war a number of staff signed up, … Continue reading
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Tagged archives, First World War, London Day Training College, students, teacher training, teachers
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Looking for online audiovisual resources?
It’s very tempting to go to Google, but the Library has access to several major resource collections which come with the assurance that the material is cleared for educational use. One of these resources is SCRAN, which is part of … Continue reading
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Tagged access, audiovisual resources, image resources, media resources, Scran
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