George Eliot 200th anniversary
George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans), a Victorian author, was born in 1819, so this is her 200th anniversary year. Her novels and short stories have frequently been adapted for radio and film. This...
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15 new channels added to Box of Broadcasts
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) has begun recording 15 new broadcast channels, including BBC1 Northeast and The Horror Channel. Great news for anyone who will be taking MAC366 or who wants access to our local...
Sunderland Libraries Literature Festival 2019
Have you seen that several University of Sunderland staff, students and graduates are leading events and speaking at the Sunderland Libraries Literature in 2019? The full programme runs from 1 October-6 November 2019 and...
Kate Adie’s book collection donated to the University of Sunderland library
Kate Adie, celebrated journalist, has many connections to her home town of Sunderland and to our university. Her notebooks and personal papers were donated to the university’s special collections (and would be a fabulous...
Lord Puttnam collection at the University of Sunderland library
The film producer David Puttnam will be lecturing about contemporary issues impacting film and media tonight at the University of Sunderland. If you’re interested in his life and professional work in education and politics,...
New open access journal: ‘Computational Communication Research’
We in the library are always excited about open access journals, and the newly launched Computation Communication Research – at the junction of computing and communications – looks very promising. It uses the green...
Study skills for Media & Communications – what we can offer you
Recently some final year students in the School of Media & Communications expressed dismay over needing to deliver a presentation, having not had to do so since their first year at university. With the...
Karl Lagerfeld passes away, how is the news covering his life and legacy?
Karl Lagerfeld, a renowned fashion designer, passed away this week. On BBC Radio 4’s PM programme, a 10 minute segment looked back on his life and discussed his legacy. There is an interview with...
Digital sound and design archive
Conserve the Sound is a digital archive of technical objects which are fast disappearing from daily life. There are crisp photos of the objects from different angles and recordings of the sound that the...
New resource on high street vacancies
The Centre for Cities has recently launched a online map called Building Blocks: Data by City that allows users to compare over 50 UK cities in terms of types of commercial land use, percentage...
2 million on-demand TV & radio broadcasts now available
We have recently begun a subscription to Box of Broadcasts (BoB), an on-demand TV & radio streaming service. BoB is an educational broadcasting and archives service from the British Universities and Colleges Film and...
Free to use BBC Sound Effects archive newly available
The BBC have made their sound effects archive available for download and reuse for noncommercial purposes. That’s over 16,000 sounds, previously only available on CD or LP, and some of them are really quite...
Which news websites to use for your research
Newsstream via Discover A-to-Z Global Newsstream from Proquest contains online full-text access to over 600 UK regional, national and broadsheet newspapers as well as international press such as The Financial Times, The Wall Street...
New Liaison Librarians for Arts & Design, Education and Media
There are a few new faces in Murray and St Peters library liaison team and we would like to introduce ourselves to you. Leah Emary, Suzie Kitchin and Michelle Walker have been hired in...
General Election resources
If you would like to follow General Election news, comment and analysis in the media, remember that the library gives you access to the content of hundreds of current UK newspapers through Lexis Nexis....