Monthly Archives: November 2010

New book to celebrate Homerton’s Charter Year

A new book has been published to celebrate a significant moment in the long history of this College—Homerton: The Evolution Of A Cambridge College edited by Dr Peter Raby and Dr Peter Warner (ISBN 1-900908-57-3). It is published by the Principles & … Continue reading

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links for 2010-11-24

Archiving in the 21st Century | World Policy Institute [Nov 2010] A four-part series of articles on the World Policy Institute's blog introduces this distressing thought: "With easy storage made even easier by cheap disk space, our ability to create … Continue reading

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Xmas holiday borrowing

From Friday 26 November our loan period will be extended to cover the vacation. Items issued on or after that date will be due for return on Tuesday 18 January 2011. Note that all current loans are due back on Friday 26 … Continue reading

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Costa Book Awards shortlists

The Costa Book Awards shortlists for 2010 were announced last night. The awards are split into five categories: Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry, and Children’s Book: 2010 Costa Novel Award shortlist Whatever you love by Louise Doughty (Faber & Faber) The … Continue reading

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links for 2010-11-16

The growing Google Books corpus: preservation, access and the long tail 10 Nov 2010 – The Google Books Project (GBP)[1] has been simultaneously characterized as being in violation of copyright laws in the U.S. and elsewhere, a boon to the … Continue reading

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New ebooks

Sarah Stamford, Project Manager at ebooks@cambridge, would like everyone to know that two new ebook collections are now available: 54 titles from Wiley Online Library and the full ACLS Humanities E-Book collection of almost 2,800 titles. Most of the Wiley Online collection covers chemistry, … Continue reading

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Scanner now available in the Library

We now have a scanner in Homerton College Library attached to one of the PWF computers on the ground floor. The scanner is an Epson Perfection V500 Photo. It is a high quality scanner with attachments for scanning negatives and slides (you will … Continue reading

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Something new for you

Did you know that it is now possible to configure your profile in Homerton College library’s Heritage database to inform you of new material that arrives in your subject areas of interest? First, log-in to Heritage, either in the library … Continue reading

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