Category Archives: Acquisitions

New acquisitions of note by Homerton College Library

Homerton College Library is now on Pinterest!

Posted on Tuesday, 21 January 2014 by homlib

In last year’s survey, several of you said that you wanted to hear more about new books and DVDs being added to the Library’s collections. You can now follow us on Pinterest to see items that we have recently added … Continue reading →

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Alice in Wonderland collection comes to Homerton Library

Posted on Tuesday, 14 January 2014 by homlib

Thanks to a generous donation by Professor Maria Nikolajeva, we now have over 150 versions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in the Children’s Literature Collection. Many of these are foreign language editions, including Russian, Spanish, Croatian and Hebrew, … Continue reading →

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New e-resources

Posted on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 by homlib

I don’t know how many of you keep up with e-resource news. The UL has recently subscribed to four new e-resources and announced two e-resource trials. We occasionally mention new e-resources but we recommend that you to keep up with this news yourself by visiting the eResources … Continue reading →

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Costa Book of the Year Award 2011

Posted on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 by homlib

Andrew Miller’s sixth novel, Pure, has won the Costa Book of the Year award, announced last night. Four other titles were in contention for the award: first novel Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson, a biography of poet Edward Thomas Now … Continue reading →

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New ebooks

Posted on Thursday, 11 November 2010 by homlib

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

Posted on Thursday, 4 November 2010 by homlib

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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Journals received

Posted on Thursday, 11 March 2010 by homlib

The first in an occasional series listing journals received by the library for those that have the time and inclination to read more. THE: Times Higher Education Supplement (n.1938, 11 March 2010) – about our ‘unloved universities’ and actor Patrick Stewart, … Continue reading →

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