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A New Home for the “Education in Literature Collection”
Until recently, the Education in Literature Collection was shelved at one end of the Library Teaching Room on Level 4. However, whilst it is still on the same level, the books and DVDs that comprise the collection have found a … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, autobiography, browsing, Canada, China, Classics, crime, DVDs, Education in Literature Collection, english sub-titles, foreign language films, France, genre, Germany, humour, India, leisure, novels, plays, reading for pleasure, Social Area, Spain, UK, USA
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Bears and bees in the library
You may have been intrigued by the seven book covers posted on our Twitter account without any explanation or link. I hope that the #BookCoverChallenge @IOELibrary and elsewhere has reminded you what a beautiful creation of the human spirit a … Continue reading
Focus on DERA (Digital Education Resource Archive): literacy and reading
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
Of ‘Guns at Bull Run’ and ‘Good wives’ : children’s worlds in the past
My favourite book, when I was little, was my mother’s illustrated description of Technological masterpieces of millennia past. My father would buy us whole series of colourful children’s books on animals in habitats all around the world. All my childhood, I … Continue reading
Reading aloud as a way of learning a language
At the Newsam Library’s first ever reading aloud session on World Book Day, IOE lecturer Sam Duncan listed, from her initial research, many occasions on which reading aloud still forms part of our culture, amongst them family life. Yes, it certainly forms part … Continue reading
S. F. Said writes about the opening of the Children’s Book Corner in the Newsam Library at UCL IOE
On 30th March, the children’s author, S.F. Said, opened the Children’s Book Corner in the Newsam Library at the UCL Institute of Education. The brainchild of Sue McGonigle, Tutor in Primary Education and Sally Perry, Curriculum Resources Librarian, the Children’s … Continue reading
Read Aloud in the UCL IOE Library for World Book Day 2015
On Thursday 23 April a group of staff from across the Institute (along with a colleague from UCL) came together in the Library to mark World Book Night with a celebration of ‘Reading aloud and listening to others read’. … Continue reading
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Tagged literacy, reading, Reading Agency, reading aloud, reading for pleasure, World Book Night
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