Tag Archives: Official Publications
Fascinating facts from our DERA repository
Amongst 12-year old children in Scotland, over 70% of boys want to continue their education after their GCSE’s – so do over 80% of girls. While over 50% of graduates declare a great deal of interest in politics, … Continue reading
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Tagged databases, DERA, Official Publications
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Focus on DERA (Digital Education Resource Archive): School Meals.
The IOE Library has always collected documents published by government and other relevant bodies in the areas of education, training, children, and families. Today, the Official Publications Collection here at the Library is the largest of our special collections and … Continue reading
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Tagged Breakfast Clubs, Chefs at School, Chefs in School, Club 365, DERA, DERA (Digital Education Resource Archive, diet, Digital Education Resource Archive, Free School Meals, HM Inspectorate of Education, Holiday Hunger, Houses of Parliament, Hungry for Success, Jaimie Oliver, London, North Lanarkshire Council, Northern Ireland, nutrition, Official Publications, poverty, Primary Schools, school dinners, school meals, Scotland, Scottish Government
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A visit to the House of Lords: Teas, Tours and Policy Papers
We are justly proud of our Official Publications Collection here at the Library; our print holdings reflect the development of state education policy since the nineteenth century and of course we continue to preserve and protect born digital government publications through our … Continue reading
More than just a number (Part 2): Making Administrative Memoranda discoverable
Back in January I wrote a post about the work that we have been doing to improve the discoverability of items within our Official Publications collection. That post demonstrated how we used digitisation techniques to unlock the content of some … Continue reading
More than just a number: bringing the content of Circulars to the surface
I would fully understand if you thought that it’s nigh-on impossible to be enthusiastic about Departmental Circulars; however I’m hoping that that by the end of this post you might share some of the excitement that I feel following the … Continue reading
A Representation of War and Peace in the Special Collections
The presentation below is on the theme of War and Peace and highlights some of the UCL Institute of Education’s Special Collections. These include: The Historical Comparative Education Collection The History of Education Collection The Grantham Number Ones The Grenfell … Continue reading
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Tagged bbc /broadcast to schools, grantham number ones, Grenfell Collection, historical comparative education collection, historical textbooks collection, history of education, Official Publications, peace, school histories collection, special collections, textbook research, textbooks, war
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TLC for the Official Publications Collection
Regular readers of our blog will be well aware of how much we prize our special collections. Recently, we decided that some of our Official publications – our collection of government and agency material which ranges from the earliest origins of … Continue reading
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Tagged history, Official Publications, Preservation, special collections
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With a little more help from our Friends!
Following on from Becky’s blog last week, I would also like to add that the Friends of the Newsam Library and Archives AGM, held Tuesday 17th July, was indeed a very enjoyable and well attended event! Since the Archivists and … Continue reading
ESCalate resources now being added to DERA
Work has begun to add 155 selected full text publications from ESCalate to DERA (the IOE Digital Education Resource Archive). From 2000 to 2011 ESCalate produced and disseminated resources for staff and students in Higher Education and Further Education involved … Continue reading
Happy Birthday DERA!
DERA (the Digital Education Resource Archive) is one year old this month. At the time of my first blog post on DERA, on 28th February 2011 we were very proud that we had managed to get over 1000 full text … Continue reading
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