Monthly Archives: December 2011
Stephen is retiring
After 37 years at the IOE Stephen Pickles, our Head of Library Services, is retiring on 31st December. At Stephen’s farewell party on Monday the IOE’s Director, Professor Chris Husbands spoke of Stephen’s long service and commitment to developing the IOE … Continue reading
Christmas and New Year closure
The Library will close at 4.30 pm on Thursday 22nd December and reopen on Tuesday 3rd January 2012 at 8.30 am. Normal opening hours will then resume. This means IOE students and staff may borrow overnight loans from 12.00 noon on … Continue reading
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Tagged BEI, DERA, IOE Eprints, opening hours, overnight loans
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Visit to the RNIB Research Library
Yesterday I went on a Cpd25 visit to the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) Research Library. The sole librarian, Robert Saggers, showed us round (most of the staff who work in the Judd Street building are voluntary, and many … Continue reading
RSS: Keeping up with research
I am often asked by students how to keep current with new research output and my advice is to set up alerts using some of the new (RSS) and not so new (Email) technologies available to us. Before I begin … Continue reading
Database news
The recent upgrade to the new ProQuest platform has resulted in the following enhancements – Lingering problems with the ERIC thesaurus have now been resolved. A new ‘Education Level’ limit can now be applied within advanced search in ERIC. Direct links … Continue reading
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Tagged British Education Index (BEI), eResources, Guides, Link resolver
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Going graphic in Curriculum Resources
A post from Elizabeth & Antony – your Curriculum Resources contacts A useful feature of Who next…? : a guide to children’s authors (see previous post) is the section on graphic novels. Once shunned, graphic novels have now become acceptable … Continue reading
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Tagged Curriculum Resources, displays, graphic novels
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Conflict and children’s books display
By our guest blogger, Beverley. A recent visit to the Imperial War Museum (IWM) was the inspiration for the current display in the library ‘Conflict and Children’s Books’. The IWM’s exhibition entitled ‘Once Upon a Wartime’ concentrated on five books … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Frank, children, conflict, Curriculum Resources, displays, Holocaust Education
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1930s Prospectuses of Teacher Training Colleges
I came back to work from a short break to find a newly deposited collection on my desk – the collection of prospectuses dating from the 1930s from various Teacher Training Colleges which were part of the British and Foreign … Continue reading
Europe on Screen
Launched in the UK last Friday, an EU-funded project now provides access to Europe’s television heritage. EUscreen aims to promote the use of television content to explore Europe’s rich and diverse cultural history. Ultimately there will be access to over 30,000 … Continue reading
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Tagged access, archive film, history, international, Television
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