Friday 27 February 2009

Berg Book Catalogue - new Fashion Books

http://www.bergpublishers.com/Categories/fsh/tabid/606/Default.aspx

The link above is to the Berg publishers site. They have some new Fashion books which look very interesting....

Thursday 26 February 2009

East London Theatre Archive Launch March 4th

East London Theatre Archive & JISC present
ELTA Website Launch
University of East London, Knowledge Dock Building, Room 2.22
Wednesday, 04th March 2009
12pm – 3pm
Registration from 11.30am

Dear colleagues,
You are cordially invited to the website launch of the East London Theatre Archive (ELTA). A JISC-funded digital archive featuring material from V&A Theatre Collections, Hackney empire, Half Moon Young People's Theatre, Hoxton Hall, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Theatre Venture and Wilton's Music Hall. There is no admission fee, and lunch plus refreshments will be provided free of charge.
This promises to be a popular event, so please RSVP to elta@uel.ac.uk indicating any special dietary or accessibility requirements in your response. Please circulate to members that might be interested. Thanks.
Further details are included below:
Event Venue
The launch takes place in the Knowledge Dock room KD 222 at the University of East London's Docklands Campus,London E16 2RD
Please visit the University of East London's website for further travel details and maps at http://www.uel.ac.uk/about_uel/why_uel/docklands_map.htm.

Registration
The registration desk will be open from 11.30am in the lobby of the Knowledge Dock. The event starts at 12.00pm in room KD 222
Refreshments
Lunch is served from 1.00pm. ELTA will also hold a small exhibition, which is an excellent opportunity to see parts of our collection.
Best wishes,
Yvonne Klein (ELTA Project Manager) and Rachel Graham (Project Officer)

Monday 9 February 2009

Library sessions for Semester B

Please let me know as soon as possible if you would like me to do any user education sessions this semester - perhaps your students need a refresher on electronic resources or you may have new students who have never used our library resources.

Henry Moore Institute


We don't get much sculpture news so I thought I would send round this link.

Exhibition at Cornerhouse




It has recently been discovered that humans are closer to higher primates than was previously thought. This exhibition brings together a group of artists who actively question the authority of the human species over all other animal species.
Four artists present specially commissioned projects developed with animals. Nicolas Primat presents his work involving interactions with tribes of monkeys and bonobo apes, in which he reveals the hidden non-human primate in all of us. Kira O’Reilly, in her special performance for Cornerhouse and installation, Falling Asleep with a Pig, allows a glance at an intimate relationship between her and a female pig known as Deliah. Antony Hall’s interactive work, ENKI experiment 3, explores communication between visitors and a Black Ghost Knife Fish. Ruth Maclennan presents, The Hawk and the Tower, a film that looks at people, the city and the landscape from the perspective of a ‘hawk-camera.’
Also included in the exhibition are Rachel Mayeri’s Primate Cinema, which casts human actors in the role of mating non-human primates and Beatriz da Costa’s PigeonBlog, which investigates the military use of homing pigeons.

Film and Sound Online

Dear Colleagues
I wanted to bring your attention to an excellent electronic resource (provided free as it is JISC funded) that seems to be rather underused.
Film & Sound Online is a JISC-funded set of collections of film, video and sound material. Several hundred hours of high-quality material are available for download, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research.
Please have a look and recommend it to your students, if it would be useful. You will need an Athens account to access it so let me know if you need to set one it.
http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk/
This database is also available from Library website. Access E journals and Databases and the link is included in the Databases A to Z list.