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