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.