More new books and eBooks for business and management
This month we have a whole host of new books and eBooks for business subjects. As you may know, the library has been buying new books throughout the year and where possible we...
Category: Subject support
New books and eBooks for law
The Library have been buying new books and eBooks for law throughout the year. Now that we are all working online more, we have concentrated on buying eBooks where possible. We have added...
The printing paper for this print – Woodblock with Laura
Laura Boswell is a printmaker who works with linocut and traditional Japanese woodblock painting. She has kindly given us permission to embed her series of videos on this blog. This is her 15th video...
Creative Lives talks: 9th March – Julia Stephenson
Our School of Art and Design Creative Lives talks offer many examples of how creative professionals live, work and thrive in the arts and creative industries. You will gain an insight into the creative process and...
Social Work Week 2021
For those of you studying Social Work it’s Social Work Week from 8-12 March. Social Work England is organising a programme of online events and you can sign up for these for free. The...
New Books for January
We’ve added the January print books and eBooks which have freshly arrived for Social Sciences onto our New Resources for School of Social Sciences Autumn-Winter 2020/21 list. You’ll see we’ve add the eBook tag...
Box of Broadcasts help videos
How are you getting on with using Box of Broadcasts? Isn’t it a brilliant resource?! For anyone who hasn’t discovered it yet, Box of Broadcasts (often know as BoB) is an on-demand TV &...
Calling all illustrators – Kate Greenaway medal 2021 longlist
The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal was established in 1955, for distinguished illustration in a book for children. It is named after the popular and highly influential nineteenth century artist known for her fine children’s illustrations and designs....
Music and performing ebooks – new titles now in!
Check out all the new books we have bought recently for the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, and in particular these new books in music and performing arts: Basinger (2019) The musical Houseman (2002)...
Inspiration from the British Library Collections
Read how people are gaining inspiration from the British Library’s extensive collections, and then go and explore them for your own research. Kitty Bardsley, a freelance graphic designer, has the British Library’s Flickr account...
Online photographic exhibition of 20th century family life
Explore this intriguing online photographic exhibition which looks back at the 20th century as a Century of Change. The exhibition explores different family concepts and discourses, zooming in on important events which have...
Getting the Latest eJournal Articles
Are you in the process of doing eJournal searches for your research project or dissertation? Alerts can save you time so you don’t have to keep running your searches time and time again. You...
Creative Lives talks: 2nd March – Christian Lavigne
Our School of Art and Design Creative Lives talks offer many examples of how creative professionals live, work and thrive in the arts and creative industries. You will gain an insight into the creative process and...
Explore our newest art ebooks
Check out all the new books we have bought recently for the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries. Many of these are ebooks in art subjects which you can start reading right now! Ansdell, G. (2001)...
Online fashion exhibitions
Chertsey Museum regularly produces temporary exhibitions and they have made the text of some of this past exhibitions available online. Are you into 1920s fashion design? Explore this Roaring Twenties exhibition from the Chertsey...