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

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

NewsFilm Online

Selected news from the ITN/Reuters archive is now available via NewsFilm Online at: http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2999437~S4 NewsFilm Online is a JISC-funded service comprising a selection of news stories and programme scripts – some 3,000 hours of footage; c. 60,000 stories. Video playback and downloading are available to staff and students.
You can access the service via the Library Catalogue or the list of databases for Communication Studies. You then need to select the University of Leeds from the Federated Search screen, and then log in with your ISS username and password.

The John Johnson Collection

The John Johnson collection of printed ephemera from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, is now freely available online at: http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2999119~S4 It contains some 65,000 printed items produced in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and covers many different types of printed document, including posters and handbills for various entertainments, broadsides relating to murders and executions, book and journal prospectuses, popular topographical prints, and a range of printed advertising material. The collection is a rich source of material on life in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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

Trial of the Electronic Enlightenment

The Library is currently offering trial access to OUP’s newest online resource, the Electronic Enlightenment. You can find this listed in the Library Catalogue or under ‘Use e-resources’ in the listing under ‘Trial e-resources’. The trial lasts until 3 December 2008.

OUP describes the EE as “The online gateway to the long 18th century”, offering unrivalled access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers.

It includes the full critical editions of the letters of more than 3,800 writers including Addison, Bentham, Boswell, Defoe, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Locke, Pope, Rousseau, Smith, Swift, Sterne and Voltaire but in total covers nearly 6,000 correspondents and over 80,000 document sources, both manuscript and printed.

We should need to give very careful thought to the (recurrent) cost implications in considering a subscription to a resource of this kind. Your comments on the EE’s potential usefulness, especially in relation to your own teaching and/or research, would be very much appreciated. You can send them directly to me (a.c.farr@leeds.ac.uk) or use the online feedback form for e-resource trials.

Edward Boyle Library Extension Go-Ahead

In October Council approved funds for a refurbishment and extension to the Edward Boyle Library. Completion is anticipated in August 2012, although it will be at least another 12 months before work begins. This building programme will allow for the creation of high quality study provision, with a focus on zoning areas for quiet and for group study. Upgraded IT equipment, enhanced self service provision and a cafe are all included in the plans. The plans approved also provide for the creation of an additional Library store, to allow the Library to continue to preserve and develop its print collections.

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

Skills@Library Launch

Professor Vivien Jones is launching the new Skills@Library on Monday 10th November. This brings together academic skills training offered by the Library and what was previously the Skills Centre. From how to write essays to managing citations using Endnote, the generic programme offers a range of sessions, free of charge, which can be viewed and booked at: http://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/200201/training/87/training.

If you are looking to embed aspects of academic skills training within in particular modules we are happy to work with schools and departments to do this - please contact your Faculty Team Librarian in the first instance.

Art Gallery Events

The current exhibition of the collection of Ronnie Duncan provides an opportunity to look at art collecting and collections as a theme this November. Please join us for the following free and open events at the Gallery:

Talk Series: 'Questions of Collecting'
In collaboration with the University of Leeds Art Gallery & Museum Studies

11 November, 6-8pm - 'Building the Lodeveans Collection'– Stuart and John Evans, London-based collectors and developers of the Lodeveans Collection

18 November, 6-8pm - 'Decision Time for Authenticity: Europe 1870-1900'– Prof. Stefan Muthesius, School of World Art Studies, University of East Anglia

25 November, 6-8pm - '“All the finest”: Furnishing the Frick, 1914-15'– Helen Rees Leahy, Director of Centre of Museology at Manchester

Roundtable discussion: Artists’ Collections
In collaboration with East Street Arts

14 November, 5-7pm

Contemporary artists discuss the role that collecting and collections play in their art practice. An open public discussion to follow their presentations.

Also continuing is our series of free lunchtime exhibition tours, on Wednesdays, 1-1:30pm:

Wednesday 12 November
Wednesday 19 November
Wednesday 26 November

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

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

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

New Skills@Library webpage

The new Skills@Library webpage has gone live.




The Skills@Library website is now live. Many of the new online resources include interactive tutorials that can be embedded in Blackboard to support learning in undergraduate modules. As well as pages aimed at students, there are separate pages for researchers, tutors and lecturers. To find out more about Skills@Library and other services being provided visit http://skills.library.leeds.ac.uk.

The link has been added to the Useful Links section on the right hand side of this Blog.

These pages can also be accessed through the library website.

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.

The Guardian

The library now has electronic access to the Guardian Newspaper archive through the Proquest Databases.

The Proquest Guardian archive offers scans of full pages, text, articles and images with full searchable text for the years 1821 - 2003. The link on the catalogue can be found here.

The library also has access to the full text of the Guardian for the years 1980 - present as provided by Nexis here alongside the rest of Nexis' worldwide news coverage.

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.

Waiting is over for social scientists...

Reviews have said "It's your paper portal to the world of reference resources!" The long awaited and well respected New Walford Guide to Reference Resources volume 2 is now available. The latest offering for the Social Sciences volume includes all kinds of invaluable sources including must-read handbooks, introductions to subjects, research institutions, associations & societies, and of course the internet, plus lots more. So if you want to keep up to date with your subject, or want to research a new subject, then dip into this fabulous tome. Getty Images copyright.

Bankscope

The Library now has access to the database Bankscope.

Bankscope provides detailed financial information, ratings and ownership information for 28,000 banks worldwide. Up to 16 years of information is included for each bank.
Log on to Bankscope by following the link from the Library Catalogue. The first screen is the quick search, enter the name of the bank you are searching for and click on search. The expert search allows you to combine several search criteria to search for a group of banks. Data can be exported as Word or Excel files.

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.

International law books

Over the last few weeks we've reorganising the law books. The main changes are that international law books (Law H, I, L and M) are now with the law collections in the main building on level 3. We hope this will make access to these collections much easier.

Commonwealth law and American law remain in the West Building on level 2, and we've created a new Stack Law sequence in the Annexe for older and less used material.

The locations in the catalogue should all be updated in the next few days, and we'll have the correct signs in place as soon as possible

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.

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.

The Making of the Modern World

The Library now has access to The Making of the Modern World database.

The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850 provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.

The link on the catalogue can be found here.

British Periodicals Collection Part II

We have recently updated our early online journal collection with the second part of the British Periodicals Collection.

British Periodicals covers 460 journals published between the seventeenth century and the early 20th century. Access to the full text of the journals is available through page images and through full text searching. All titles are indexed in C19 nineteenth century index.

It is available through the catalogue here.

Online Course Readings Service

The Online Course Readings Project has now changed to Service status. The service exists for staff to make key texts available online for students in PDF format, via the VLE. More details can be found at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/digitisation/.

The deadline for requests for Semester 1 of the new academic year is Friday the 18th of July – academics or Faculty Team Librarians wishing to propose book chapters or journal articles for scanning should use the new online request form, also available via the website above.

For more information, please contact Ned Potter, onlinecoursereadings@leeds.ac.uk.

Summer Projects 2008

Last Summer a huge amount of library resources were transferred to Leeds from the Bretton Hall campus. Every Summer (June to August) the Library undertakes an extensive programme of important collection management projects. This year the library is carrying out 6 different projects in the Brotherton Library. The aim of these projects is to carry out vital maintenance of Library collections during the quiet vacation period in order to minimise the disruption to users.

We apologise in advance for any disruption that this project work may cause, especially where selective parts of the collections become temporarily unavailable while we process and move stock.

Details about the major activities scheduled in the Library for Summer 2008 can be found on the Library website at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/secure/editing/

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.

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.

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.

LexisNexis Butterworths

An updated version of this database has been launched today. The interface has been simplified and the most commonly used search boxes are now much more prominent.

Two of the best new features are:

• The "Find a source" search on the homepage, that makes accessing international materials much easier than using the sources directory.
• The results pages now make it much more obvious what related content is available for a document without having to use a drop down menu

There have been no changes to the content of the databse, and links to training tutorials are available on most pages of the database.

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.

New books

The library adds new books to its collections on a regular basis. A list of new books added to the Brotherton Library can be found on the Library website at : http://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/ralist/. Alternatively, you can browse the 'New Books' shelves next to the General Reference section located on Level 3 of the Brotherton Main Building.

Faculty Team Librarians are always looking for the latest quality titles in their subject field. If you have seen a new book that would be really useful for your studies or research, you can fill in an online 'Book Suggestions' form on the Library website at : http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/contact/suggest/. Each suggestion will be considered by your Faculty Team Librarian.

The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery - Special Exhibition

From the 6th March until the 6th June, the Special Exhibition Room is showing ‘British Prints 1880-1980’ from the University art collection. The display explores the development of printmaking in Britain from the Etching Revival through to Pop and Op art screenprints.

To find out more about the Art Gallery please visit the website at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery/

Are you part of the Net Generation?

If you're part of the Net Generation, we want to hear from you!
Leeds University Library is taking part in research being conducted by the University of Sheffield that aims to identify how satisfied undergraduates are with their university library service.
So, if you are an undergraduate aged between 18 and 24, we would really appreciate it if you could spare 10 minutes of your time to complete the survey.
You will need to register by entering your name and email address. A confirmation email, with a link back to the survey, will be sent to your email address.
Remember, this is a great opportunity to influence the way things are done at the Library. The results of the survey will be used by the Library's senior management team when making long-term decisions about the services we provide to our students.
Start the Survey!

Leeds Read 2008 - a great success!

Last Night Leeds Read 2008 ended with a bang. Bestseller Philip Pullman was kind enough to take the time to deliver an engaging and inspired lecture, entitled ‘Poco a Poco’. The lecture took place in the beautiful setting of the Clothworkers Centenary Hall in the School of Music, and after a brilliant introduction from our very own Chris Sheppard, Philip went on to discuss what makes up a narrative, namely, the elementary particles- the example he used was the pouring of water into a glass, those of us lucky enough to have been present are eagerly awaiting the eventual publication of this theory, which is sure to be an enlightening insight into one of our best living writers. Following the lecture, Philip kindly answered questions from the audience about inspiration, spirituality and what makes a good ending. He was captivating from start to finish, and has as much appeal to the young as he does to the old.

Philip was also given the honour of announcing the Leeds Read favourite children’s book as voted by you on http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/leedsread/. The winner, unsurprisingly, was His Dark Materials, by our guest, which drew at first place with A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh. The entire top twenty can be viewed on the website now.

Special thanks must also go to the Leeds University Union Debating Society, who delivered a very well informed and interesting discussion on the motion "The national curriculum should only include British authors to foster a sense of national identity" on 26th February.

Congratulations and great thanks to all of the Leeds Read team. Roll on Leeds Read 2009!

The University Art Gallery Open Soon

The University Art Gallery in the Parkinson Building will be open for all to visit from 6th March (Mondays to Fridays, 10:00 to 17:00, with some Saturday openings). The Gallery's first exhibition draws solely on the University's own art collection and more pictures and sculptures from it will be on show than have ever been seen in one place before. Students and staff are always welcome, even if just for a few minutes! We have one of the best university art collections in the country, and now we have one of the best university galleries to show it in and to attract major exhibitions from elsewhere.

This is posted on behalf of Hilary Diaper, Layla Bloom, Chris Sheppard.

How do we measure up?

Leeds University Library is committed to providing the best information resources and services to the University community. We need to know what you think of those resources and services to help us plan developments and improvements. Only you can tell us the areas we need to improve to help you in your studies or research.On 11th February the 2008 Library Survey goes live and will be available from the Library webpages: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/ until March 16th. Please complete it and help us develop the best services for you.For further information email libqual@leeds.ac.uk

Podcast Tours

Podcast tours of the Brotherton Library are a great way to help you find your way around the library. The tours were developed by Acoustiguides.The tours will give you a lively introduction to the Library layout and services - download them to your MP3 player so you can listen to them whenever you need to!Learn how to get the best out of the Library and locate all the important facilities and collections.
If you don't have an MP3 player, the guides are also available on AcoustiGuide handsets from the Brotherton Reception.
Individual clips are up to 3 minutes long, the whole tours are less than 20 minutes.

Leeds Read - Voting time

The nominations are in, and the shortlist has been selected. Voting will close on March 5th. The winner will be announced on World Book Day - March 6th.
Everyone who nominated or votes (and supplies us with an email address) will be entered into a draw to win some book-realated goodies!

To vote simply go to the the Leeds Read website at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/leedsread/vote.htm

White Rose Repository

The White Rose Repository have just launched a short online questionnaire for research staff about White Rose Research Online. They are interested in where researchers deposit information about their publications (within the University but also outside the University). The questionnaire also polls awareness of open access and attitudes towards it. They will be using the responses from the questionnaire to help improve the service they offer.

You can complete the survey online at http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/survey/
There is a prize draw to win an iPod shuffle or £50 gift voucher!

Leeds Read

If you haven't yet voted for your favourite children's book then hurry, you only have until Friday 22nd January.

Voting from the shortlist will start on Monday 25th and end on Wednesday 5th March. Everyone who votes will be entered into a prize draw - if you leave your contact details. A very famous author will announce the winner at our World Book Day event on the 6th March.

For more details about the Leeds Read please visit the webstite at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/leedsread/index.htm

Leeds University Art Gallery

The opening of the Art Gallery is now scheduled for 5 March and will comprise a large exhibition all from our own collections to begin with. The New Exhibitions Officer Layla Bloom started work on 4 February.

Web of Science changes

The Web of Science interface has now changed.
After typing in your ISS username and password, you will be taken to the Web of Knowledge homepage. Click on the yellow Select a Database tab at the top of the page. You then need to select Web of Science from the list of database products.



At the bottom of the screen, you have the option to Change Limits and Settings. Click this link and the following options will appear:

Tick the check boxes to search across each of the databases. By default it searches across all three.

For more information about Web of Science there are online tutorials and workbooks available at : http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/databases/indexguides/wos.htm or you can book online onto a Web of Science library training session http://www.skillscentre.leeds.ac.uk/workshops.php

Training sessions for Arts PhD Students

Find out how to do a comprehensive literature search, keep up to date in your field and manage the information you find without getting swamped. These sessions are designed specifically for arts and humanities research students. The first session will show you how to ensure your searching is comprehensive and kept up to date. The second will show you how to manage the information you find using Endnote.

• Searching the Literature, Thursday 14th February, 12-2pm, Edward Boyle Library, Level 10 training room.

• Using Endnote to Manage the Information you Find, Thursday 28th February, 12-2pm, Edward Boyle Libary, Level 10 training room.

To book a place on these sessions, please contact the Arts Team in the Brotherton Library at: arts@library.leeds.ac.uk

Welcome

The Brotherton Library is pleased to welcome the new site manager Beth Hardy. Beth has a degree in Physics and Astrophysics, a PGCE from Leicester University and an MA in Library and Information Management from Manchester Metropolitan University. Before coming to the University of Leeds, Beth worked at Blackpool and Fylde College as a Learning Resource Manager where she did everything from book selection to cataloguing. We wish her all the very best in her new post!

Leeds Read

Author Philip Pullman, best known for his award-winning trilogy His Dark Materials - the first book of which, Northern Lights, was made into the hit film The Golden Compass - will be the star attraction of this year’s Leeds Read event.
All staff are encouraged to get involved by nominating their favourite children’s book on the Leeds Read 2008 website, at http://www.leedsread.co.uk/. Nominations close on 22 February and voting begins on 25 February.
Depending on your age, it might be Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis, Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, or perhaps Northern Lights by Philip Pullman – but what's your favourite?
Leeds Read culminates on World Book Day, 6 March, when Pullman gives a lecture called ‘Poco a poco’ looking at the elementary units of a story that make up the narrative. Pullman will also announce the University of Leeds’ favourite children’s book and the winners of the prize draws.
Another highlight of this year’s Leeds Reads programme will be ‘The Big Book Debate’ on Tuesday, 26 February - come along to hear members of the Leeds University Union Debating Society put arguments for and against the motion that: ‘The national curriculum should only include British authors to foster a sense of national identity’. The debate will be held in the Centenary Gallery off Parkinson Court, starting at 6pm with pancake refreshments included.

Leeds poetry 1950-1980

The Leeds Poetry 1950-1980 website is now available online following the completion of a joint AHRC-funded project by Special Collections and the School of English. A series of web pages gives detailed information on poets and poetry at the University between 1950 and 1980, including the Gregory Fellowships, poetry publishing, literary maps and biographical sketches. The site also provides access to a multi-level catalogue, enabling the cross-searching of archives held in Special Collections relating to poets connected with the University.

Available at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/leedspoetry/

New Resources

Public Information Online http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2894036

This new database provides access to all parliamentary papers from the 2006/07 session onwards. It contains PDFs of all House of Commons Bills, House of Commons Papers, Command Papers, House of Lords Bills and House of Lords Papers. Updated daily, papers are available on the day of publication, significantly quicker than the paper copies reaching the Library. All content is fully searchable, and it is possible to browse numerically, alphabetically or by author. Public Information Online is available via the Library Catalogue, both on- and off-campus.

World Advertising Research Centre (WARC).

One of the largest sources of intelligence for marketing, advertising and media communities worldwide, providing access to over 45,000 papers, case studies, research reports, news items and statistical information.

How do we measure up?

Leeds University Library is committed to providing the best information resources and services to the University community. We need to know what you think of those resources and services to help us plan developments and improvements. Only you can tell us the areas we need to improve to help you in your studies or research.

On 11th February the 2008 Library Survey goes live and will be available from the Library webpages: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/ until March 16th.

Please complete it and help us develop the best services for you.

For further information email libqual@leeds.ac.uk

New Resources

New Full Text Resources

These are all available from the Library Catalogue at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/

Burney Collection, 17th and 18th Century Newspapers. The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), some 1,270 titles, all in full text and fully searchable.

19th Century British Library Newspapers. The full text of the full runs of 48 British papers, national and regional.

19th Century UK Periodicals Online. The full runs, in full text, of nearly 600 periodical titles sourced from the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and other specialist libraries.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers. Now expanded, this covers papers in full text back to 1715, with some supplementary material from 1688 onwards.