University of Sunderland Library Blog Blog
The University Library has great art resources for students and staff to explore and enrich their studies and research, and includes some hidden treasures! Carol McKay (Team Leader for our arts programmes) and Suzie...
What happens when you slow down, take a moment, and explore a piece of art work? Do we really slow down enough? What happens when we do? Listen to this podcast from the Tate...
Did you see Marina Abramović take over the Sky Arts channel? One of our academic liaison librarians had this to say after she watched it – “What I saw was astonishing, thought provoking, deeply...
At last week’s Module/Programme Studies Board for Childhood Studies I received a request to promote the accessibility tools I have written about this year to reach all of you studying Social Sciences. To kick...
Laura Boswell is a printmaker who works with linocut and traditional Japanese woodblock painting. She has kindly given us permission to embed her new series of videos on this blog. This is her 9th...
For this year’s Black History Month, curator of classical music at The British Library, Johnathan Summers, chose to write a short piece about Eddie South who was a black American violinist. He explores Eddie’s...
Are you someone who writes their Christmas cards early, or do you suddenly realise the last posting date has come and you haven’t even started writing them?! Do you buy your Christmas cards, or...
How many times have you clicked on a link or reference, only to get the message that the webpage no longer exists? This phenomenon, which is called ‘link rot‘ or ‘content drift‘ can be...
The University Library has subscriptions to numerous nursing journals that will help you with your wider reading and research for assignments. You’ll find articles from all of the journals featured in this series of...
Watch this interesting conversation between sculptor Anthony Gormley and art critic Martin Gayford where they reflect on the power of sculpture and the human desire to create. If you’re interested in learning more about...
Mental health is a subject that many of our art students explore as part of their research and studio-based practical work. The Tate has produced a podcast presented by Billy Childish, and challenges the...
The British Library has a collection of oral history of jazz in Britain. A local lad, James Howe, features in this archive. He was born in County Durham in 1917 and served as band boy...
The University Library has subscriptions to numerous nursing journals that will help you with your wider reading and research for assignments. You’ll find articles from all of the journals featured in this series of...
Have you ever to Durham’s Lumiere festival that happens every two years in November? Planning artworks and installations for the 2021 festival is well underway. To celebrate 10 years of Lumiere being in Durham,...
Studying Social Work? The Social Care Institute for Excellence has been updating guidance and releasing webinar recordings which are useful for keeping you up-to-date with practice: Risk Identification and Virtual Interventions for Social Workers....