Cinema Image Gallery: online database trial

We have a one-month trial to the Cinema Image Gallery database, hosted by H.W.Wilson.

The Cinema Image Gallery is one of the world's finest and most comprehensive online collections of still images from movies, television and the entertainment industry. It presents the history of movie-making, still images of films in production, directors working on-set with the stars, set, costume and production design, as well as, hair and make-up shots and rare behind-the-scenes material. Cinema Image Gallery also offers an extensive TV stills archive, covering comedies, dramas, series, TV movies, game shows and thousands of pictures of the stars in this medium.

Cinema Image Gallery includes over 150,000 superior-quality images, along with a treasure-trove of over 4,000 poster art and lobby cards used to promote the movies.

Access to this resource is via the eLibrary Gateway.

Medieval Studies: new web-based resources

Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English, 1150-1325 (LAEME). LAEME aims to present information about the variation in space and time of linguistic forms found in early Middle English texts. We take early Middle English to cover the period ca. 1150-1325.

Go to http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/laeme1/laeme1.html for full details.

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts. The Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts offers a simple and straightforward means to discover medieval manuscripts available on the web. Very much a work in progress, the database will initially provide links to hundreds of manuscripts, which we expect quickly to grow to thousands. Basic information about the manuscripts is fully searchable, and users can also browse through the complete contents of the database. As the project develops, a richer body of information for each manuscript, and the texts in these codices, will be provided, where available.

The address for this resource is:http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/

20th Century British History Essay Prize

Oxford Journals (of OUP) are inviting entries to their Twentieth Century British History’s annual Essay Prize. The aim of the TCBH Essay Prize is to encourage a high standard of scholarship amongst postgraduate research students. The competition is open to anyone currently registered for a higher research degree, or who completed one no earlier than October 2008.

The author of the winning essay will receive:

• Publication of the winning essay in Twentieth Century British History
• A cash prize of £300
• £200 worth of OUP books
• One year’s free subscription to Twentieth Century British History

Please feel free to pass this message on to your colleagues and students.

The closing date for submissions is 15 October 2009. Full details and an Essay Prize entry form can be located at: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3456/6

Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Grove Art Online

We were asked to purchase the electronic version of the Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art.

We already have access to Grove Art Online, including the Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art, which Oxford University Press have confirmed.

The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture in print is a spin-off title from the Grove Dictionary of Art (in print). The content of the Encyclopedia is basically all extracted from the Grove Dictionary of Art (34 volumes). The additional 100 entries on recent archaeological discoveries, newly commissioned for the Encyclopedia have been incorporated into Grove Art Online as content updates, although they are not identified on the site as anything other than Grove Art content.

We could purchase the encyclopedia to increase the visibility of the content but the content is available in our existing collections.

The UK Research Reserve

UKRR is developing an imaginative solution to storing and securing the knowledge in low use printed research journals.

In this digital age, the print copy of important research journals becomes little used as the journal is read online. UKRR enables Higher Education Libraries to collaborate in sharing the burden of print storage. Items no longer on the shelves need not reflect a shrinking collection. Guaranteed access is available through British Library Document Supply services and reading rooms.

The space saving achieved by de-duplicating extra copies of journals is put to use providing up to date facilities for learning and teaching and research.

The Research Reserve is a collaborative collection of low use print research journals stored and managed jointly by HE institutions and The British Library.

UKRR is a membership organisation. We welcome all Higher Education Institutions to collaborate in preserving low use print journals for research.

The UK Research Reserve (UKRR) is a Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) funded initiative, in partnership with the British Library and HE institutions, led by Imperial College, London.

Blackwell: Reserve Online and Collect Instore

Did you know that the University Park campus bookshop, Blackwell, allows you to see online which books they have in stock – and to reserve them for collection?

Click here for more information.

Classified: The Secret History of the Personal Column by Harry Cocks

Dr Harry Cocks, a lecturer in the School of History, has just published a book telling the story of how we finally learned to love the personal ad.

Classified — The Secret History of the Personal Column unearths the hidden history of the modern personal ad and the internet profile — from the ‘lonely soldiers’ of the First World War, to the single typists looking for love in the 1920s, through to the swingers of the 1960s and the social networking sites and chat rooms of the 21st century.

Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Random House Books

ISBN-10: 1847945007
ISBN-13: 978-1847945006

The Burney Newspaper Collection

We now have access to The Burney Newspaper Collection, under a JISC Collections agreement until 31st December 2013.

• 1 million newspaper pages Newspapers,


• newsbooks, Acts of Parliament, addresses, broadsides, pamphlets, proclamations


• the most comprehensive collection of early English newspapers


• titles from London, British Isles, and colonies

Access here.

Please note that access to the combined collections in British Newspapers 1600 -1900 is currently only valid until 31st December 2010 when the current agreement for the 19th Century British Library Newspapers expires.

Television & New Media

We have a new journal subscription for Television & New Media, which was arranged last summer.

The first volume has arrived in the Hallward Library: Vol. 10, No. 1. We currently have electronic access from 2000: volume: 1 issue: 1.

Heresy in Medieval France by Claire Taylor

Heresy in Medieval France explores the origins and spread of popular heresy in western Europe from a new regional perspective, that of the medieval duchy of Aquitaine.

Part I concerns the origins of ‘heresy’ reported there in c.1000. Through extensive engagement with the historiography of this subject, it argues that whilst Aquitaine could have given rise to indigenous forms of dissent that clerics might misrepresent as doctrinally dissident, new evidence makes a reassertion of the case for the influence of Balkan dualism viable. A supporting account of Aquitainian and Gascon society is offered, the latter under-explored in Anglophone literature. Debate concerning the rate and nature of social change in this period is also made relevant, as is the relationship between heresy, the Peace of God and the cults of saints.

Part II is an account of Catharism in the north-western Languedoc, under the influence of both Aquitaine and Toulouse. Neglected evidence for the reception and rejection of the heresy by the families and towns of the county of Agen sheds important light on our understanding of heretical adherence in the Languedoc more widely; in peace-time, during the Albigensian Crusade, and under the Inquisition.

This book will be invaluable to all scholars interested in the sociological location of religious dissent in the high-medieval west, as well as to those of Catharism and the societies of south-western France specifically.

Claire Taylor is a Lecturer in the School of History and a library representative.

Library Garden in Second Life

The image above shows Tammy Toffee Tigerfish exploring the Library Garden in Second Life. In the background you can see the University of Nottingham balloon and the virtual world Trent Building.

America: History and Life: online trial

We now have a 30-day trial to America: History and Life, provided through EBSCOhost. This database can be searched through the eLibrary Gateway both on- and off-campus.

America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.

Communication & Mass Media Complete: online trial

We have a 30-day trial to Communication & Mass Media Complete, provided through EBSCOhost. This database can be searched through the eLibrary Gateway both on- and off-campus.

Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 460 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 660 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 350 journals.

Arts Faculty Library User Group: agenda: February 2009

Arts Faculty Library User Group Meeting: Wednesday 4th February, 2009, 12:00 in Trent A19

AGENDA

1. Apologies for Absence

2. Minutes of the meeting held on 19/09/08

3. Matters Arising

(a) [Point 5] Strategy document circulated for discussion [JT]

(b) [Point 5] Disabled car-parking opposite Hallward [NS]

4. Collection Policies [JT]

5. Blog for Arts Library Info [NS]

6. Relegation Policy [NS]

7. Journals [Neil Smyth, Sara Ponz-Sans, Vladimir Zoric, Kaitlynn Mendes]

8. Kings Meadow Campus

(a) Reference Items [SB]

(b) Use of Kings Meadow Campus [NS]

9. Update on books for China [SB]

10. Loan limits for staff [SB]

11. Book-buying budget

(a) New Modules [SB]

(b) Rate of Expenditure [NS]

12. Temperature control on level 4 [SB]

13. AOB

14. Date of Next Meeting

Research Information Network Survey

Researchers can you help?

Can you spare 10 minutes to answer an online survey? Do you ever need to access information as a non-member at libraries in institutions other than your own? If so, we would like your feedback on the obstacles you face.

Following our previous successful survey we are undertaking further work, commissioned by the Research Information Network. The survey is hoping to reach as many researchers as possible, across a range of disciplines. Your input will provide vital insight to these issues and how they may be resolved going forwards.

You can access the survey from 9th February here: or email lburns@outsellinc.com.,