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S21 Film screening and discussion
By Cecile Dubuis, on 4 February 2009
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities presents
Saturday 7th February 2pm – 6pm Birkbeck Cinema
S21: – Film screening and discussion with the film’s director, Rithy Panh
E-books survey
By Cecile Dubuis, on 22 January 2009
This is open to all UCL staff and students.
You may be aware that UCL is participating in the JISC National E-books Observatory project, a major investigation into the use of e-textbooks – the response from UCL to the preliminary survey in February last year was exceptionally high.
We are again inviting all staff and students at UCL to contribute by completing an online exit survey. This should take just over 10 minutes to complete and gives you the chance of winning £200-worth of Amazon vouchers in the prize draw. Your feedback will help UCL Library Services to develop its e-resources strategy to reflect the requirements of UCL staff and students.
If you would like to take part, please go to:
Please note that you are under no obligation whatsoever to take part in this survey. Any information that you give us will be held securely, and we will under no circumstances reveal any findings other than at a highly aggregated level. We are collecting the data through a third party, Survey Monkey, whose privacy policy can be checked at:
Library Acquisitions December2008
By Cecile Dubuis, on 14 January 2009
New Books added to library stock during December included:
Deleuze and the schizoanalysis of cinema / edited by Ian Buchanan and Patricia MacCormack.
London : Continuum, c2008.
ANTHROPOLOGY A 9 BUC
Fields of vision : essays in film studies, visual anthropology, and photography / edited by Leslie D
Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, c1995.
ANTHROPOLOGY A 9 DEV
Ways of walking : ethnography and practice on foot / edited by Tim Ingold and Jo Lee Vergunst.
Aldershot : Ashgate, c2008.
ANTHROPOLOGY B 28 ING
London Lore Conference
By Cecile Dubuis, on 13 January 2009
London Lore at Bishopsgate Institute
‘Folklore is the way that people fill their lives with meaning, through the stories they share, the daily rituals they perform.’ Folklore Society Leaflet.
This one-day conference, held in conjunction with the Folklore Society and the South East London Folklore Society (SELFS), explores not only the history of London’s traditions and collectors of London folklore, but also modern interpretations and rediscoveries of old customs. The conference will discuss magical talisman collections, seasonal celebrations, urban witchcraft and contemporary mysteries. Meet the Jack-in-the-Green, learn the secrets of Crossbones Graveyard, hear stories of the city’s rats and ravens, and discover London’s people through their own stories and beliefs.
Doc Rowe on London Seasonal Celebrations
Steve Roud, Neil Gordon-Orr and Ross MacFarlane on Urban Magic: The Edward Lovett Collection
Sonia Ritter & Dr Eva Griffit on The Lions Part Bankside festivals: the old in the new
Antony Clayton on Strange Brew: The Folklore of London pubs
John Callow on Witchcraft & Witch Trials in London
John Constable on The Southwark Mysteries and the Crossbones Shrine
Mark Pilkington on The Brompton Cemetery Time Machine
Sarah Crofts on The Deptford Jack-in-the-Green
Paul Cowdell on Rats, Redstarts, and Ravens
| Dates: | – April 2009: 25 |
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| Time: | 9.30am – 5.30pm |
| Price: | £10, concs £8 |
http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/events_details.asp?EventsID=343
Francis
By Cecile Dubuis, on 17 December 2008
UCL currently has access to Francis, an index of journal articles in the Humanities and Social Sciences, via OCLC. We have arranged trials of two alternative interfaces: use the links below to access them.
Please send feedback on the interfaces to ejournals@ucl.ac.uk, or post a comment, below.
Library Christmas Vacation Opening
By Cecile Dubuis, on 5 December 2008
Details of libraries’ opening hours for the forthcoming vacation may be found online at:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/sites.shtml
Screening “GRASS: A Nation’s Battle for Life” at SOAS
By Cecile Dubuis, on 5 December 2008
FRIDAY 5 DECEMBER 2008 @18.15hrs FOR 18.30 START
IN THE KHALILI LECTURE THEATRE
Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life
Filmmakers: Merion Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.
B/W silent 62 mins. 1924
Library Acquisitions October 2008
By Cecile Dubuis, on 25 November 2008
New Books added to library stock during october included:
European Anthropological Association. Congress (15th : 2006 : Budapest, Hungary)
New perspectives and problems in anthropology / edited by Éva B. Bodzasár and Annamária Zsákai.
Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2007.
ANTHROPOLOGY A 6 BOD
Taking sides. Clashing views in anthropology / selected, edited, and with introductions by Kirk M. E
Boston ; London : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2009.
ANTHROPOLOGY A 6 END
Periodicals Archive Online
By Cecile Dubuis, on 5 November 2008
UCL now has access to 80 titles in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences that are part of the ProQuest Periodicals Archive Online. All new titles and additional coverage have been added to the ejournals list. More information and titles covered.
Duke University Press journals
By Cecile Dubuis, on 4 November 2008
UCL has a trial of the Duke University Press ejournals collection, covering titles in the humanities and social sciences, until February 2009. This trial provides access to the current content of the titles below, to which we do not currently subscribe. (Some of the earlier content of these titles is already available: this is shown on the ejournals list.)
