Many students will find the Reading Rooms at Colindale invaluable for any research involving newspaper and magazine archives.
A minibus trip to Colindale, north London, for students to view the British Library newspaper archives is organised for Wednesday 10th February.
The minibus will be leaving the University Library, Lincoln at 08.00 hrs to arrive at Colindale at approximately 10.30. The minibus will leave Colindale at 16.00 hrs to arrive in Lincoln at approximately 18.30hrs.
If you would like to visit Colindale, please book your place by registering at the University Library issue desk. There is a small fee of £5 when you register.
If you intend to use the Reading Room and access material from their collection, you will have to register as readers individually in their Reading Rooms. To do this, you will need to show two forms of identification, one as proof of identity showing signature (e.g. passport, credit card, driving licence) and one as proof of current address (e.g. recent utility bill, recent Bank Statement, Driving Licence with address etc) or alternatively a current British Library Pass. Please note, strictly no admittance to the Library will be permitted without proof of ID/address.
In common with other British Library Reading Rooms, they do not permit coats and bags into the Reading Room and pencils only must be used.
It is also advisable that you make use of the Advance Reservation service to order up to four bound volumes or microfilm reels of newspapers in advance of the visit by contacting them on 020 7412 7353 or by emailing them at bookdelivery-colindale@bl.uk 48 hours, (excluding Sundays and Bank Holidays) before your intended trip. Colindale advise all readers to reserve material in advance of your visit as it saves time and they cannot get back to you in case of unavailability.
A number of students and staff have asked for help with the – slightly tricky – process of logging in to a particular journal title within the LexisLibrary legal and news sources package, via the e-journals A-to-Z site.
So, we’ve created a step-by-step help guide which explains the process, with screenshots of each step. There’s a link to the help guide next to each LexisLibrary title on the A-to-Z.
LexisLibrary is a…
…legal and news/current affairs database providing access to a range of case law, legislation, commentary, current awareness, and newspaper services. Includes the full text of volumes 1-50 of Halsbury’s Laws of England (an authoritative narrative covering every aspect of English statute and case law), up-to-date legislation containing over 18,000 full text acts, and the All England Law Reports. LexisLibrary also provides access via a “News” tab to full-text newspaper articles from national, local and regional UK newspapers.
Therefore, a minibus trip to Colindale, north London, for students to view the British Library newspaper archives will take place on Wednesday 18th November.
The minibus will be leaving the University Library, Lincoln at 08.00 hrs to arrive at Colindale at approximately 10.30. The minibus will leave Colindale at 16.00 hrs to arrive in Lincoln at approximately 18.30hrs.
If you would like to visit Colindale, please book your place by registering at the University Library issue desk. There is a small fee of £5 when you register.
You will need to show two forms of identification, one as proof of identity showing signature (e.g. passport, credit card, driving licence) and one as proof of current address (e.g. recent utility bill, recent Bank Statement, Driving Licence with address etc) or alternatively a current British Library Pass.
LexisNexis Butterworths is now known as LexisLibrary.
LexisLibrary provides access to a range of legal material including case law, legislation, commentary and journal articles. In addition to this the newspaper service provides full text access to both national, local and regional UK newspapers, making it an invaluable resource for all students.
This Daily Telegraph archive covers the sensational story which effectively disabled the European and local elections on the 4th June. Voters stayed away and the turnout plummeted as a result. Was the Telegraph deliberately undermining the government or was it just interested in boosting its readership figures? Read it for yourself in this exclusive archive!
They are available for reference in the Zibby Garnett room on the 1st floor of the University Library– just ask at the library issue desk for the key.
Other collections include the Second World War, Beijing Olympics, Iraq War, Falklands War, Cold War and the Credit Crunch; all available in the Zibby Garnett room.
The access problems we have been experiencing with The Times Digital Archive have now been fixed. You should now be able to access the Archive, from on or off campus, via the University Portal:
The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text archive of The Times of London, covering two centuries of newspaper articles from 1785 – 1985. The entire newspaper is captured, including all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos, and the archive is searchable by keyword index, by category, and by date.
We regret that we are experiencing problems with our access to The Times Digital Archive. From off campus, users are getting the following error screen:
The error message reads: "Invalid authorization password".
We are working to fix the problem and will post a message here as soon as the service is working again. On-campus users are not affected.
Here’s an online video about downloading an article about the credit crunch from the Daily Telegraph on Lexis Library (formerly Lexis Nexis Butterworths).
Let me know what your thoughts are on this type of information skills training.
Special newspaper collections about the Credit Crunch and the Beijing Olympics are now available on the library catalogue: http://www.library.lincoln.ac.uk. Our Financial Times coverage of the Credit Crunch spans from the 24th September 2008 – 15th December. Our Beijing Olympic archive includes The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times, The Sun and The Independent. More titles are to follow!
These newspapers are available for reference in the Zibby Garnett room on the 1st floor of the University Library. If you require access to the collections please ask for the Zibby Garnett key at the library issue desk.
Other collections covering WW2, the Gulf War and the Falklands War are currently being processed…
The access problems we have been experiencing with 
