Tag: School of Communication & Creativity

Easter Opening Hours

Library opening hours will vary due to the Easter vacation. Detailed opening times and directions to each library can be found on the City Library website. Northampton Square Library  Date Opening Hours Staffed Hours Friday 14th April 10:00 – 10:00 Self-service/Reference only Saturday 15th April 10:00 – 10:00 12:00-18:00 Sunday 16th April 10:00 – 10:00 12:00-18:00 Monday 17th April 10:00 – 10:00…Continue Reading Easter Opening Hours

Library Staff Love #15: Helping you help yourselves

Right at the top of our agenda is trying to make using the Library as straightforward as possible for our users and one of the key weapons in our arsenal is self-service. Whether it’s using our self-check machines to borrow items, or now collecting your requested items without needing to come to the Service Desk,…Continue Reading Library Staff Love #15: Helping you help yourselves

Meet the team: Copyright and Digitisation Team

The Copyright and Digitisation team is responsible for promoting copyright compliance at City, and for managing the Digitisation service, through which lecturers can make scans available to students of key chapters or extracts from books, or articles from journal issues, via Reading Lists. The team is made up of Stephen Penton (Copyright Librarian), Mark Pester and…Continue Reading Meet the team: Copyright and Digitisation Team

Your Top 10 Films of All Time..!

With the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday the end credits will roll on another year of tearful acceptance speeches, surprising snubs and red-carpet wardrobe disasters. To mark the occasion we’ve crunched the numbers on our DVD collection to discover your most popular movies based on usage. Here are your all-time top ten. The results might…Continue Reading Your Top 10 Films of All Time..!

New Books – Feb 2017

Use the carousel below to browse a selection of the new titles added to Library collections in the last month. Click on any cover to see where the book is located or to place a request. Want to recommend a book? Tell us what’s missing from our collections via our More Books Scheme.  …Continue Reading New Books – Feb 2017

The Curious Case of Library Staff Love #14

Rather excitingly, and in typical crime fiction fashion, this month we received an anonymous tip-off. It seems that there’s something worth investigating on Level 5 of the Northampton Square Library and, luckily for us, our unnamed online-form-filler left some vital clues to help us take a closer look: Clue 1: “It’s got loads of great…Continue Reading The Curious Case of Library Staff Love #14

Library Staff Love #12: Drama Online

Here at CityLibrary we love drama. Not in a soap opera style showdown-in-the-Staff-Room kind of way, that never happens- no cups of tea have even been spilled in a fit of pique. No, by drama I mean proper drama- plays, playwrights, the RSC, the Almeida; texts, criticism, performance and review. Only the other day one…Continue Reading Library Staff Love #12: Drama Online

Resource of the month: Literature Online (LION)

What is Literature Online? Literature Online is an online resource for the study and teaching of literature in English. It combines the texts of over 355,000 literary works with a vast library of criticism and reference resources. What’s Included? Texts Criticism Reference Video and Audio You can use the Complete Contents page to browse through…Continue Reading Resource of the month: Literature Online (LION)

Library Essentials

Our new Library Essentials Guide contains everything you need to get started in the Library. Whether you’re a new or existing student, there is something there for everyone, including a series of short videos to help you make the most of our online services and resources, and a glossary to define all the words that are frequently…Continue Reading Library Essentials

Meet the team: School of Arts and Social Sciences

What support do you offer to students? As Subject Librarians we provide library support for teaching and learning for the School of Arts and Social Sciences. This includes managing the library collections; purchasing library material for the modules taught at City; delivering group training for undergraduate and postgraduate students; and attending school meetings. We can support students…Continue Reading Meet the team: School of Arts and Social Sciences