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August opening hours for the Library & LRCs

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Our centre opening hours for the month of August (and on into September and freshers’ week……. already!) are now online, at:

http://visit.lincoln.ac.uk/C16/C10/OpeningHours

You’ll see that we’ve given our opening hours web page a new look to (hopefully) make it easier to see when our centres open and close each day, and when our desk services are available.

For clarity, we’ve used the 24-hour clock throughout.

(Image: an example of the new opening hours layout.)

(Image: an example of the new opening hours layout. These are the August opening hours for the LRC at Riseholme Park Campus)

Please note that:

  • The GCW University Library will be CLOSED weekends in August (except Saturday 15th – Sunday 16th August, when it will be open 12.00 – 17.00 with no desk services)
  • On Bank Holiday Monday, 31st August, the GCW University Library will be open 12.00 – 17.00 (no desk services), and the 3 campus LRCs will be CLOSED.
  • Semester opening hours resume on Monday, 21st September in Hull, and a week earlier – 14th September – at Riseholme.

Have a great August!

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Finding “TheRightInfo” for food, drink and retail

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

In the GCW University Library at Brayford Pool campus, you can find the latest copy of ’The Grocer: directory of manufacturers and suppliers‘ (at shelf mark 664.0025 gro in the Reference Collection). But now, students at all campuses can benefit from this specialist food-industry manufacturing and retail resource online, through the Grocer’s parent site, TheRightInfo Directories.

TheRightInfo Directories provide a…

“Searchable online business directory, containing thousands of company profiles, contacts, brands, and products for more than 27,000 UK companies in the grocery, manufacturing and retail industries. Includes access to The Grocer Directory of Manufacturers & Suppliers, The Retail & Shopping Centre Directory, Food Manufacture Directory and British Baker Directory.”

You can access TheRightInfo Directories, on- or off-campus, through the University Portal. Only one user may access the site at any one time, and access is controlled by a username & password which will be changed regularly.

This is a potentially very useful online resource for students on the degree in Food Manufacture at Holbeach Campus.

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Updated: Cambridge University Press e-journals

Friday, July 17th, 2009

The Electronic Journals A-to-Z website has been updated with the latest information about our 32 e-journal subscriptions from Cambridge University Press.

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Lincoln’s Cambridge Journals Online package includes the following titles, mainly (though by no means all!) from the social sciences:

  1. Ageing and Society
  2. The American political science review (Cambridge)
  3. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly
  4. The behavioral and brain sciences
  5. British Journal of Political Science
  6. The Cambridge Law Journal
  7. Central European history (Cambridge)
  8. The China Quarterly
  9. Contemporary European History
  10. English Today
  11. The Historical Journal
  12. International Labor and Working Class History
  13. International Review of Social History
  14. Journal of American Studies
  15. Journal of Child Language
  16. The Journal of Dairy Research
  17. The journal of economic history
  18. Journal of Functional Programming
  19. Journal of Public Policy
  20. Journal of social policy
  21. Language in Society
  22. New Theatre Quarterly : NTQ
  23. Organised Sound
  24. Perspectives on Politics
  25. PS, Political Science & Politics
  26. Review of International Studies
  27. Rural History
  28. Social Policy and Society
  29. Theatre Research International
  30. Theatre Survey
  31. Urban History
  32. Work, employment & society : a journal of the British Sociological Association (Sage)

You can access them all, on- or off-campus, via the A-to-Z.

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DVD of the week: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Is this the finest American horror movie of the 1960s?

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy (Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes) move into a gothic style New York apartment, and at first life seems good. Warned about the building’s strange history, it isn’t long before things between the couple start to become a little estranged.

Living next door are an eccentric elderly couple, Minnie and Roman Castevet, who seem to take more of an interest in Guy, especially once he is indoctrinated into the local theatrical group. Guy becomes increasingly odd towards Rosemary, and not long after he suggests they try for a baby…

Dark and menacing direction by Roman Polanski help to elevate this film above the usual run of the mill horror, and the final realisation of just whose child Rosemary is carrying has to be one of the all time great horror movie scenes.

Originally taken from a best selling horror novel by Ira Lewin, the film is often sited as being the inspiration behind the Exorcist. Receiving two Academy Award nominations, it won one for Best Supporting Actress by Ruth Gordon. The online film review website, Rotten Tomatoes, awarded the seminal film a justifiable 98% ‘fresh’ rating with 47 positive reviews out of 48.

Still to this day the film broods with intrigue, suspicion and threat, and is well worth a viewing if not only to appreciate Polanski’s darkly atmospheric masterpiece.

Available to take home today in the ground floor of the library and shelved at: 791.4372 ROS

Written by ‘Black Knight’

Q. Which celebrated actor played the voice of Donald Baumgard, the character struck blind by a witches’ curse, leaving a part in the local theatrical group free for Guy to take up?

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Copyright for Education – blog entry amended

Friday, July 10th, 2009

In May I added a blog entry relating to a ‘Copyright for Education’ course I had attended, delivered by Paul Pedley.  I was recently contacted to highlight a number of inaccuracies in the review, which I have now amended. Original here.

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Lincoln – Hull I.T. data link

Friday, July 10th, 2009

An urgent message from ICT services:

Would staff please be aware that there is an intermittent problem with the voice and data traffic between Lincoln and Hull. We are presently waiting on a response from an external company to enable a fix. We expect a solution by Monday morning at the latest

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DVD of the week: JUBILEE (1978)

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Arguably the first punk movie, Derek Jarman’s masterpiece about Queen Elizabeth I being transported forward in time by an occultist John Dee (Richard O’Brien, aka Rocky Horror Show and Crystal Maze) to a desolate and brutal wasteland ruled by her twentieth century namesake.  After Queen Elizabeth II is killed after a mugging, the Tudor monarch surveys the dystopia of 20th century urban life.  A perfectly subversive counterpart to Queen Elizabeth’s 1977 jubilee year, the film centres on three anarchistic post-punks (Amyl Nitrate, Chaos and Mad) revelling in a society where law and order is abolished.  Jarman told the Guardian’s Nicholas de Jongh at the time: “We have now seen all established authority, all political systems, fail to provide any solution – they no longer ring true”.

 

Released in February 1978, Jubilee was a perfect antidote to the street celebrations and royal souvenirs of the previous year, and marketed the genius of punk that rejected convention and introduced a way of life that terrified the establishment and became a clarion call for youthful expression. Jubilee also contained a multitude of punk icons such as Toyah Willcox, Adam Ant, Jordan (the original), The Slits and the fabulous Siouxsie and the Banshees.

 

The film is available for loan at 791.4372 JUB in the DVD collection on the ground floor of the University Library.

 

Q. What was the first punk record to be released in the UK?

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Zetoc service restored

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

A further message from Mimas Zetoc Support:

I am pleased to say that the Zetoc service is now available again following this morning’s hardware fault on a shared storage controller which occurred at
03:31 BST and affected access to many Mimas services.

Mimas would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused by this disruption to the service.

The Zetoc – British Library Electronic Table of Contents (ToC) service allows you to search the tables of contents of all 20,000 journals and 16,000 conference records held by the British Library, from 1993 onwards. You can also set up ToC alerts via email or RSS feed.

You can access Zetoc via the University Portal:

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Access problems with Zetoc

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

A message from Mimas Zetoc Support:

Please be advised that the Zetoc service is unavailable following unexpected hardware problems.

We will update you as soon as possible with an update on progress.

Please accept our apologies for the disruption and inconvenience due to users of the Zetoc service as a result of the unavailability. Please be assured that we are working to resolve the problem as soon as possible.

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Head of Library and Learning Resources to take up new post in Scotland

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

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Michelle Anderson, Head of Library and Learning Resources, is leaving the University to take up the post of Director of Library Services at Robert Gordon University – starting on 1 August 2009.

Michelle has been with the University of Lincoln for 10 years and has held her current post for 8 years. Her period at the University has been marked by the opening of the Great Central Warehouse, great improvements in student satisfaction in her area, a shift in strategy towards electronic provision, the development of the institutional repository for research and enhanced links with the learning landscape.

Michelle Anderson said: “I am very sorry to be leaving the University of Lincoln, but I am looking forward to the new challenges ahead.”

Michelle has made a great contribution to the development of the University and we wish her very well in her new post.

Sent on behalf of Senior Pro Vice Chancellor Professor Mike Saks

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