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

Library Online Payments

The Library's Online Payments Service is now available.

The Library's Online Payments service allows you to pay fines, Document Supply charges and other library charges online using a credit or debit card.
Current staff and students can login using their ISS username and password. All other Library members can login using their name and Library barcode.
After you login, you will see a summary of the charges on your record. You can check detailed information about each charge before making a payment using a debit or credit card at the secure online payment desk.
If you have any questions, please contact us at librarycharges@leeds.ac.uk

Research students: have your say: give your views on Library behaviour

The Library is reviewing its policies on user behaviour and we're keen to hear from research students about this. Should we allow more food and drink? What do you think about noise? We'd like to hear your views so please email me if you would like to attend a focus group about library behaviour on Thursday 3rd December at 10 am.

Ben Plumpton (b.plumpton@leeds.ac.uk)
Brotherton Library

WREO (White Rose eTheses Online).

The international profile of individual doctoral researchers, and the University, is about to be given an online boost through a new e-theses service, WREO (White Rose eTheses Online) http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/

Data from other e-theses services demonstrate the huge impact that online access has, some theses attracting hundreds of downloads where historically access and use was very restricted. Theses will be discoverable through search engines like Google, and be a part of the British Library’s EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service), which will ensure long-term preservation and access.

Current PhD students can choose to opt into the service, but students registering from 2009/10 onwards will be required to submit an electronic copy of their PhD thesis for inclusion in WREO. There will be an option to delay access to their thesis for a set period of time if needed, as in the current system. WREO has been developed by the Library, RSA and the University Copyright Officer.

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 Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Economic Forecast - 3 month trial access

As part of our ongoing commitment to UK Universities, we have set up a FREE webinar on this important subject. On 30th November, Robin Bew our chief economist will deliver this presentation solely to UK University staff and students.

Please forward this information to your colleagues, as it is entirely free, but of great value!

Peter Reardon

Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/599389923

Finding and Managing Information for your PhD: Open Access Publishing, Plagiarism and Copyright

26th November: 2-4pm, Edward Boyle Library Training room, level 11

If you are starting to think about the dissemination of your research, this session gives practical advice on copyright and plagiarism. It also explores the issues involved in publishing in open access journals.

To book a place e-mail: arts@library.leeds.ac.uk

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 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 furniture

Over the summer we've had a range of new furniture installed on levels one and two of the Main building of the Brotherton Library. We've still got a few finishing touches to make, but the area is now in use. Most of the desks have power sockets and there is wifi access. This means we've now got a quiet area for laptop use in addition to the facilities in the group study area of the West Building. Let us know what you think.

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 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

Marks & Spencer: Celebrating 125 years

British icon Twiggy will join M&S Chairman, Sir Stuart Rose and Vice-Chancellor Professor Michael Arthur to open M&S’ 125th Birthday Exhibition, ‘Marks in Time’, on 4 June 2009.

Developed in partnership with the University of Leeds , the exhibition will unveil highlights of the Marks & Spencer archive to the public for the first time. It will take visitors on a journey through time with a unique showcase of around 200 fashion and home products, food packaging and photographs, and company literature and advertising, some of which have never been seen publicly before.

The collection has been curated by M&S archivists and will be on show in a free public exhibition housed in the University of Leeds ' Centenary Gallery within the Parkinson building.

M&S and the University of Leeds are in advanced discussions about permanently relocating the entire company archive to Leeds and housing it in a purpose-built location on campus. This unique archive - of more than 60,000 items - would be made available to staff and students for research, teaching and learning, and be fully accessible to the public for the first time whilst continuing as an important internal research facility for the M&S team.

http://marksintime.marksandspencer.com/Welcome/

19th Century British Pamphlets Trial

The library currently has trial access to Research Libraries UK’s 19th Century British Pamphlets collection.

The collection covers over 26,000 pamphlets and over 1 million pages of some of the most significant 19th Century pamphlet collections, covering the social, economic and political issues concerning Britain in the 19th Century.

The records are integrated into JSTOR and can be browsed chronologically and searched by text up until June 30th 2009.

JSTOR’s page describing the collection in detail can be accessed from here: http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=e1001083

If you do make use of the trail the library would welcome your feedback via the E-resource trials feedback form here:

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/databases/trial_feedback/index.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

British Cabinet Papers 1915 - 1978

The library now has electronic access to the Cabinet Papers for 1915 – 1978 provided by the National Archives.

They contain a core collection of over half a million government records covering the years 1915-1978. All of the records are fully searchable as scanned PDFs but can also be browsed by thematic and historical overviews covering three main themes of British Governance in the 20th century:

The United Kingdom and the world
The economy, business and resources, and
Society and the Welfare State

The National Archives plan to add to the collection in the future by releasing and digitising more papers as they become available for release to the public.

The catalogue link can be found here

The library also currently provides a microfilm run of earlier cabinet papers for the years 1880-1916 which can be found here

Lexis Library

LexisNexis Butterworths has been rebranded as Lexis Library. The content and login details are exactly the same as before, and we'll leave links to both on the website until the Summer.

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 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

Leeds Read- Favourite Literary Character!

Your Leeds Read 2009 favourite literary characters is...

*** Samuel Vimes ***

from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

Click here to see a countdown of the top 15 and thanks to all of those who nominated and voted!

Is Samuel Vimes the best literary character? To discuss this and give us your views, search for LeedsRead on facebook and join the group!

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

Leeds Read 2009: Vote!

Voting is now open for Leeds Read favourite literary character!

From all the nominated characters there is a shortlist for you to vote from - and decide who this years 'Leeds Read Favourite Character' is!

You can vote here or view all of the nominations here.

The winner will be announced on World Book Day: Thursday 5th March

Happy voting!

ULITA exhibition- final two weeks

'Bali and the islands of the Southeast'
an exhibition of Indonesian textiles
from Bali and Nusa Tenggara

From 7th October 2008 to 27 February 2009
Tuesdays – Fridays 09:30-16:30

The great string of islands between Java and Timor is known in Indonesia as Nusa Tenggara or the ‘Islands of the Southeast’ The region of Nusa Tenggara is a microcosm of the great diversity of Indonesia.

This exhibition aims to reveal some of the diversity and richness of the textiles of this region, based around a number of themes, including functions, ritual, design, production techniques, culture, continuity, decline and innovation.

The exhibition is based on the collection of Hywel Coleman OBE, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education, University of Leeds. He is a consultant to the Ministry of National Education, Indonesia, and has been collecting Indonesian textiles since 1973.

Leeds Read 2009

Who has given you the most reading pleasure?

Leeds Read is an annual event run by the University Library, promoting reading for pleasure amongst the staff and students of the University, and raising money for Book Aid International. This year we're celebrating character.

We want to know who is your favourite literary character - who has inspired or intrigued you, maddened or charmed you? Is it a wizard or witch, sleuth or spy? Human or animal, insect or alien? Who has given you the most reading pleasure?

Nominate and be nosey about (or inspired by) other people's nominations at www.leedsread.co.uk and you could win a lovely prize. Then from 25th February, you can cast your vote for one of the characters from the shortlist of nominations, to become the University’s Leeds Read 2009. The University's favourite literary character will be revealed on World Book Day: 5th March.

Leeds Read is also proud to present:

An evening with Sophie Hannah

Tuesday 24th February, 18.00, Brotherton Room

Sophie Hannah is a poet and novelist, equally brilliant as either. The Independent has called her "The brightest young star in British poetry" and The Poetry Review declared (in capitals) "SHE IS A GENIUS". As the author of best-selling psychological thrillers, "Sophie Hannah just gets better and better", according to The Guardian. As if that weren't enough, she also writes for children, including her own, and is a terrific performer.

Sophie, who lives near Leeds, has a special relationship with Leeds University Library, as it now looks after her literary archive, which uniquely documents her writing from poems written at the age of eight - not that long ago! - to her successes of the present. Work that's so good on paper is wonderful when presented in person by its creator. We're proud that Sophie will help us celebrate The Leeds Read 2009.

Places are limited so please book your place at: http://www.leedsread.co.uk/

Although the event is free to attend, there will be a collection for the charity Book Aid International. Refreshments will be provided.

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

Back by popular demand!

Some of the most popular Skills@Library workshops were fully booked, so we've arranged extra sessions:

Finding information for your dissertation: top tips - extra session arranged for Tuesday 24th February, 12:30-14:30
Finding information for your dissertation: more top tips - extra session arranged for Tuesday 3rd March, 12:30-14:30
Intelligent web searching - extra session arranged for Wednesday 18th March, at 12:00-13:30

To find out more, and book a place, please go to: http://skills.library.leeds.ac.uk/workshops.php

19th Century British Pamphlets Trial

19th Century British Pamphlets is now available through JSTOR as a trail until the 30th June.

19th Century Pamphlets Online will provide access to some of the most significant collections of pamphlets held in UK research libraries.
This includes the personal collections of Joseph Hume (from UCL) and Joseph Cowen (Newcastle), the family collections of the Earls Grey
(Durham) and Earls of Derby (Liverpool), the Foreign Office and Colonial Office collections (Manchester), and selections from the large collections held by LSE and the University of Bristol. In all, more than 1 million pages (about 23,000 pamphlets) will be digitised and made freely available to UK users via JSTOR in early 2009.

You can access this resource here through the Library catalogue.

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

Cabinet Papers, 1915-1978 from the UK National Archives

The full text of UK cabinet papers from this period is now freely available from the National Archives website. You can either search (for example by date and keyword) or you can browse papers on specific themes. There is a link to these papers from the E-Resources for Hisory Guide.

Places available on Skills@Library workshops

There are places available on the following Skills@Library workshops:
Accessing archives - 26th January
Digimap: an introduction to GB digital map data - 26th February
European Union information - 28th January and 18th February
Finding and using digital images - 9th February
Government information: online British official publications - 11th March
Market research for entrepreneurs - 19th February
News and newspapers - 19th February
Special Collections: resources and services - 2nd February
Taking numerical tests -18th February
To find out more, and to book a place, please visit the Skills@Library website at http://skills.library.leeds.ac.uk/

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

Finding and Managing Information for your PhD

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. Learn how to avoid the pitfalls of copyright whilst making your work available to the widest possible audience.

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 that you find using Endnote. The third explores issues surrounding plagiarism, copyright and open access publishing.

- Searching the Literature
Thursday 5th February, 2-5pm, Edward Boyle Library, level 11 training room

- Using Endnote to Manage the Information you Find
Thursday 12th February, 2-4pm, Edward Boyle Library, level 11 training room

- Open Access Publishing, Plagiarism and Copyright
Thursday 19th February, 2-4pm, Edward Boyle Library, level 11 training room


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

These sessions form part of the Leeds Humanities Research Institute’s programme for research postgraduates. More information is available at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/lhri/postgraduates.htm#training