Category: Library news & events
Student Art Pass
Explore world-class galleries, museums and historic houses all over the UK and enjoy a year of endless inspiration with friends, for your studies, or just for you. Miss nothing with a Student Art Pass....
Celebrating Black History month – explore our collections
Black History Month takes place in the UK during October. To mark this event, here are a selection of resources from our library collections to encourage you to explore issues being raised in relation...
Kate Greenaway Illustration award winner 2021
The winner of the 2021 Kate Greenaway medal is author and illustrator Sydney Smith for ‘Small in the City’ This award is judged by children’s librarians for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children...
A new database – Open Society Justice Initiative
The Open Society Justice Initiative is part of the Open Society Foundations. It aims to provide expert legal support for Open Society’s mission and values through strategic human rights litigation and other legal work...
More Study Skills Drop-ins!
In last year’s Big Talk to the Library feedback you told us that you would like to see more immediate help with your Study Skills. We listened to this and have now increased the number of our Study...
MA degree shows – Fine Art – Glass and Ceramics
Our MA degree students who have studied here during 2020-21 are currently exhibiting their end of degree shows. Glass and Ceramics students are exhibiting at the National Glass Centre 25th September – 3rd October....
Celebrate Sustainable Fashion Week by exploring our library resources
Sustainable Fashion Week is taking place 11th – 19th September 2021. Take this opportunity to explore our library resources on this subject which include: Barnard (2020) Fashion theory: a reader Bravo (2020) How to...
Heritage Open Days 10-19th September
Check out the Heritage Open Days locally this September! They provide excellent opportunities to explore heritage of all kinds in the region – this year the open days take place over a period of...
Go and visit Antony Gormley’s ‘Field for the British Isles’
Field for the British Isles by Antony Gormley, creator of the Angel of the North, is on display at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA) at the National Glass Centre from July until September this year....
Digital manuscripts from the British Library
Digitising print resources can be a great way for libraries to give access to resources to a wider audience. Here at Sunderland we can often digitise key chapters for items on reading lists through...
Open Journal of Business and Management – recently added to library search.
Open Journal of Business and Management is dedicated to advancement in the study of business and management. It is an international, journal provided by Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP), one of the largest...
LGBTQI+ New Archives
Studying MSc Inequality and Society? Visit our Inequality and Society Useful Resources list where we have added two new archives on LGBTQI+. The archives are both in the LGBTQI+ section and are: The Digital...
Changes to British Standards Online document security
British Standards Online have recently added an extra layer of security to their documents. Please refer to the BSi website for full details or, read on for the summarised version. BSi documents are now...
Shape Early Years and Children’s Reading
Are you engaged in teaching children reading skills? Do you want to widen the reading material you use in an early years setting or in primary school? Then we’ll share with you our hot...