Article in Library eResources: Using the Red Carpet Question “Who Are You Wearing?” to think about Global Clothing Trade

Whilst making a list of electronic journals on the subject of globalization in the library collections, I came across an interesting article. This resource can only be accessed by members of Bangor University. The article, by Jon D. Carlson from the University of California, is called: “Who are you wearing? Using the red carpet question [...]

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Searching multiple newspapers: LexisNexis UK Newspaper Search / News UK

We have various newspaper archives in Bangor University library electronic resources collection, such as The Guardian, The Observer and The Times (see the library newspaper resources list ), but sometimes, you may want to be able to search many newspapers at once for relevant articles. When you need to search multiple UK newspapers, we have [...]

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Birthday of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, the Architect who designed Portmeirion

Today (28th May) is the birthday of architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, born in 1883, who most famously designed the Italian style village Portmeirion, just outside Portmadog in Gwynedd, North Wales. Sir Clough Williams-Ellis was selected for inclusion in the 100 Welsh heroes website. The Welsh library in Main Arts has several books written by Sir [...]

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LILAC Conference: Day 2: Next Generation Search Engines

On Day 2 of the Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference in Cardiff (see previous blog posts for write ups of earlier sessions, and an explanation of the phrase “information literacy”), I attended a session called Users’ experiences of new generation search interfaces: introducing Ex Libris’s PRIMO search engine at University of East Anglia Library, which [...]

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Article in Library eResources: International Relations Theory explained using Lord of the Rings

Whilst hunting for journals on globalization in the e-resources at Bangor University library, I discovered an article by Abigail Ruane and Patrick James entitled “The International Relations of Middle-earth: Learning from The Lord of the Rings”. The article uses characters and storylines from J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy trilogy Lord of the Rings to explain the [...]

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LILAC Conference: Day 2: Alternate Reality Games

The first session I went to after the morning’s keynote was Help Viola: using an Alternate Reality Game for student induction, run by Rosie Jones and Emily Shields from Manchester Metropolitan University. I had picked this session because I am interested in unusual and innovative ways to teach information and library skills. ARGs (Alternate Reality [...]

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LILAC Conference: Day 2: Patricia Ianuzzi Keynote

Patricia Ianuzzi is a librarian from Las Vegas, and I enjoyed her keynote, which featured references to online gaming and to Las Vegas casinos! She began by giving an overview of information literacy and reports in the US, which I found very useful. These are some of the references she gave: The Spellings Commission on [...]

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Google & Uni of Michigan Book Digitisation Project

An article about Google’s plans to digitise library book collections from the Inside Higher Ed website. There are a wide range of feelings and opinions about these kinds of plans, e.g. some people are in favour of increasing ease of access to collections, whilst others are worried about Google having too much monopoloy and control [...]

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LILAC Conference: Day 1: Other Sessions

Jenny Evans & Ruth Harrison (Imperial College, London): 2. 0 much to do: how, when and why should library staff find out about web 2.0, and what does it mean for information literacy? The session was about an idea called 23 Things, which was a list put together by a public library in America to [...]

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LILAC Conference: Day 1: Melissa Highton Keynote

This is a write-up of sessions I attended on the first day of LILAC, the Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference, on Monday 30th March 2009, back in the days before I had a blog. For more information about what information literacy is, see yesterday’s blog post. I have to comment first of all that the [...]

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