Monthly Archives: June 2013

The Ranking of World Repositories: DERA and SSRN

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Nazlin Bhimani

I’ve always been sceptical about league tables and my reaction to rankings of this sort is almost always in direct proportion to where the organisation I am working in is placed.  (In the case of the University World Rankings, the … Continue reading →

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Exam Fear…

Posted on June 14, 2013 by rebeccawebster2014

I’ve been cataloguing some further papers from the BFES archive this morning, including a number of school magazines. Whilst having a flick through one of them I spotted this poem from the 1973 edition of ‘Outpost’ the school magazine of Cornwall … Continue reading →

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Appraising digital archive collections – some final thoughts

Posted on June 6, 2013 by rebeccawebster2014

During our JISC Transformations project I have posted a couple of times (here and here) about the work I have been doing to appraise one of our personal digital archive collections. As our project comes to an end I thought it … Continue reading →

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Wise words

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Jessica

[If I were Queen of everything] “My politicians would have history degrees. […] I don’t think you can be truly effective in politics if you don’t have a proper understanding of history […] we form patterns and it’s incredibly difficult … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Libraries

Posted on June 5, 2013 by UCL Institute of Education Library and Archives

Obviously, beauty is relative, but even the hardened non-library user would be softened by this park-side view from the fabulous Malmo City Library — an extensive library bustling with users of all ages. There are numerous sections for younger users … Continue reading →

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