Bragg Notebook

The Library has made available online the notebook in which the Braggs recorded the results of their groundbreaking experiments on the nature of X-ray spectra and the principles of crystal analysis for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915.

The website at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bragg-notebook/ makes available the notebook, a commentary written by Chris Hammond, (Institute for Materials Research at the University of Leeds) explaining the contents of the notebook and the relationship between the results noted in the notebook and the published papers of the Braggs. Photographs of the equipment of the type used by the Braggs are included within the commentary. The Library’s repository of digital images, LUDOS, has been used to store the digitised images.

New and Improved Special Collections Webpages

The Special Collections webpages have been redesigned with a more image-led and user-friendly approach and a navigation structure specifically organised for users within Special Collections. The new and improved Special Collection pages can be found at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/

Online Course Readings Service to go live

Online Course Readings has concluded its project stage and is now being formed towards a fully-fledged service which is preparing to meet the Semester 1 demand for the digitisation of print materials on reading lists.

The decision to move to service status is a result of the project team having developed a proven and robust methodology for the timely production, under licence, of quality digital copies of print materials on reading lists for inclusion in the VLE. The decision was also brought about by a very healthy take-up of the pilot readings as well as the positive feedback received.

Requests and other enquiries are welcome and can be submitted via the service’s mailbox: onlinecoursereadings@leeds.ac.uk Priority will necessarily be given to items on Semester 1 reading lists for which the submission deadline is July 18th 2008. The Semester 2 deadline is November 3rd 2008.

Please remember the license is such that all materials for digitisation and mounting in the VLE have to be handled by the Online Course Readings Service.

Further information on the service can be found at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/digitisation/

New books

New books have been added to the Brotherton Library. You can find a list on the library website at: http://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/ralist/bl0.htm.

'Whitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg & his circle' exhibition at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery

After almost 50 years, Isaac Rosenberg is set to return to the University of Leeds, at the recently refurbished and renamed Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery. A retrospective of Rosenberg's work was first held at the University in 1959, organised by Jon Silken, a Gregory Fellow in Poetry, and Maurice de Sausmarez, former Head of Fine Art.

This exhibition is the first to focus on the poet-painter Isaac Rosenberg for more than 15 years. It is also the first to fully explore Rosenberg's art in the context of his Whitechapel peers - among them the painters David Bomberg, Mark Gertler, Jacob Kramer and Clare Winsten (Clara Birnberg) - and writers John Rodker, Joseph Leftwich and Stephen Winsten - as well as associates such as Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Horace Brodzky. Featuring more than 50 paintings, drawings and works on paper, as well as selected manuscripts, photographs and ephemera, the exhibition follows the recent publication of Dr. Jean Moorcroft Wilson's new biography of Rosenberg (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1 April 2008) and coincides with the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.

The exhibition was conceived and curated by Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art as part of their ongoing series 'The Whitechapel Boys'

Exhibition dates: 16 June - 25 July 2008

Opening reception: 17 June, 6-8pm

Study Day: 6 July

Friends of University Art and Music talk - 'From Worrier to Warrior: Isaac Rosenberg and The Great War'by Shaun Levin: 23 July, 6pm

Image credit:

Isaac Rosenberg, 'Self-Portrait in a Steel Helmet,' 1916
Black chalk and gouache on brown wrapping paper, 24 x 19.5
Private Lender

Changes to the Nexis database search facilities

Due to new licensing conditions, the ability to search the Financial Times within source groups on the database Nexis has now been removed. You can still search within the Financial Times but it means that searches using any of the News groups such as All News, UK Broadsheets, UK Newspapers, UK National Newspapers or Major World Newspapers will exclude the financial Times. You must now either search the Financial Times on its own or add it to other source groups.

Please note that to search the Financial Times you must use the Power Search within Nexis.

Instructions

To search the Financial Times on its own:

After logging into Nexis select the Sources tab.

Select the Find Sources option and type Financial Times in the keyword search, then select the Find Sources button.

Select the Financial Times (London) from the list of sources and select the OK – Continue button.

The Financial Times will then appear in the list of Selected Sources within the Power Search.

To combine the Financial Times with other source groups:

After logging into Nexis select General Search from the red menu at the top of the page and then select the Power Search tab. Go to the Select Sources drop down list, scroll to the top and select Edit this Source List.

All your currently combined source groups will be displayed. Select Edit/Rename for the source group that need to include the Financial Times.

The sources currently included in this group will be displayed. To add a source choose the Select More Source button. You will be taken to the Source tab and the Find Sources option.

Enter Financial Times in the keyword search, select the Find Sources button, and then select Financial Times (London) from the list of sources. It will now be added to the source group that you selected. To view the sources in the group select View. To save this select the OK – Continue button.

Repeat these steps for every combined source group to which you would like to add the Financial Times. Select the Done button to return to the Power Search screen.

Alerts

Under these new arrangements it is currently not possible to combine the Financial Times with any other sources to update existing alerts or to create new alerts. Alerts will need to be set up specifically for the Financial Times as a single source. For information on how to create alerts please see the online help within Nexis (linked to from the top right of any page).

New books have been added to the Brotherton Library. You can find a list on the library website at: http://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/ralist/bl0.htm.

New Image Databases

We are pleased to announce the Library now provides access to two new major image databases: ArtStor and Land of Lost Content. Both art databases allow you to search, browse, select and download images into folders that you create. They can be found in the catalogue or from the new Image Databases page which lists interdisciplinary resources, available to everyone at the University of Leeds.