Month: October 2021

Celebrate Black History beyond October with Liberating CityLibrary

As Black History Month comes to an end in the UK, we want to highlight some of the books chosen by the City community to celebrate and educate about black lives. You recommended these titles through our Liberating CityLibrary scheme. So far, you’ve recommended illuminating history texts: Black artists in British art: a history since…Continue Reading Celebrate Black History beyond October with Liberating CityLibrary

New resource: OverDrive

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OverDrive is a platform providing access to a wide range of fiction and non-fiction e-books. OverDrive works in a slightly different way to our other e-book suppliers, rather than just read books online you can borrow items and read them on the go via an app called Libby.   What can I borrow? All City…Continue Reading New resource: OverDrive

Audit Analytics: Corporate and Legal

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Library Services are pleased to announce that we now have access to Audit Analytics: Corporate and Legal through the WRDS Platform. Audit Analytics is a company intelligence tool useful for topics like investments, accounting, insurance, law, and regulatory issues. We already have the sister dataset to this product, Audit Analytics: Audit and Compliance, which you…Continue Reading Audit Analytics: Corporate and Legal

The City Law School Library

Study desks and shelves.

On Monday 6th September the new City Law School building, on the corner of Sebastian Street and Goswell Road, opened its doors to staff and students for the first time. This handsome building incorporates two historic structures into its design: and located on the first floor you’ll discover the new Law Library. Over the summer…Continue Reading The City Law School Library

Connecting students to content with Reading Lists Online

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Reading lists Reading Lists Online offers students quick and easy access to books, e-books, journal articles and websites recommended for the modules they have registered for. Lists are often divided into sections/topics to guide students, with notes added to highlight importance or relevance. If an item on a list has a button labelled ‘Read Online’…Continue Reading Connecting students to content with Reading Lists Online

Business Source Ultimate

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We’ve upgraded one of our key academic and trade journal databases for business: Business Source Complete is now Business Source Ultimate. Many of you will have found great articles in this huge database before, and now it’s even bigger and better! Business Source Ultimate provides us with access to journal articles, case studies, company profiles,…Continue Reading Business Source Ultimate

Black History Month 2021

Black History Month book display at Northampton Square Library

October is Black History Month in the United Kingdom when we focus on celebrating the contributions of black communities to this country and the wider world, as well as remembering the experiences and injustices of black people in the past and still today. Although the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic are still being felt, there are…Continue Reading Black History Month 2021