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Don’t miss the chance to attend one of the Emerald Publishing presentations or training sessions.  There are 3 different options for staff and students on Thursday 5th May at the Enterpise Zone in the library. 

 

·         Insider’s Guide to Getting Published (90mins). Starting at: 9.30, 12 or 4

·         Database Training (30 mins) Starting at: 12.30, 3.30

·         Reading ListAssist (30 mins) Starting at: 11.30, 2.45

 

 

Emerald are providing a buffet lunch for anyone attending the sessions at 11:30-12:00pm, 12.30pm-1:00pm and 12.00pm-1.45pm. Attendees at a Stirling event, who also register for Your Profile on the Emerald database will be entered into a competition to win an Apple iPad!

 

For more information and to book a place go to: www.emeraldinsight.com/tk/stirling

Elections for the Scottish Parliament and a referendum about the UK voting system will take place on 5th May 2011. The Library’s 2011 election guide has information about the registering to vote, how to vote and how to find out more about the referendum. The guide also contains information about the candidates for the Scottish Parliament in the constituencies containing or adjoining the university’s three campuses as well as links to the websites of the main political parties, their manifestos and links to social media such as Twitter and YouTube.

The current exhibition in the Stirling Campus Library, ‘Treasures from our Collections’, will end on Tuesday 26th April.  A new exhibition will go on display on 2nd May which will provide an historical perspective on Scottish elections with a selection of materials from our political collections.

 

If you can’t make it into the Library to see our ‘Treasures’ exhibition a selection of material can be viewed on our Flickr site.

English Studies at the University of Stirling will host an international evening of poetry on 21st April at 7:30pm in A7 in the Pathfoot Building. The evening will feature readings by Kona MacPhee and Sridala Swami, two fresh poetic voices.

 

Kona MacPhee was raised in Australia. She studied musical composition at Syndey and computer science and robotics at Monash. Now resident in Perthshire, she has published two books with Bloodaxe, Tails (2004) and Perfect Blue (2010).

 

Sridala Swami hails from Hyderabad, India. Her first collection of poems, A Reluctant Survivor was published by the Sahitya Akademi in 2007 and short-listed for the Shakti Bhatt first book award in 2008. She is also a film-maker and writes for young children. Sridala Swami is spening three months in Stirling, as the 2011 Charles Wallace Fellow.

Connected Histories is a brand new resource which searches a range of digital resources relating to British history in the period 1500 – 1900. It cross-searches several key sources for historians including the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, British Newspapers (1600-1900), the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera and the Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online (1674-1913). It is available from the A-Z list of Online Resources. A full list of all the sources included in Connected Histories is available here: http://www.connectedhistories.org/resource.aspx 

 

A lot of the content of Connected Histories is freely available online, but some of the sources require a subscription. The University Library provides access to the John Johnson Collection, the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers and British Newspapers and if you are unable to access the full text from Connected Histories please access these resources via the A-Z list of Online Resources.

 

A video about using Connected Histories is available here: http://vimeo.com/21610170

This free JISC Advance WebCast brings you practical guidance on the legal, technical and accessibility issues involved in recording lectures and screencasts.

For more information see the JISClegal Web site.   Send your own questions in advance to webcast@jisclegal.ac.uk. 

No need to register - just view a test card presentation in advance and if that’s working for you then you’re already set up to view the broadcast itself.

 

All staff and students can choose to be entered into our prize draw and will have the chance to win one of the following: