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Library Update
Summer 2013
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Welcome...
... to our summer term Update.
Contents:
What’s been happening in the library...
New large print books
Book Club in a bag
Children’s story telling
New Journals
Book Review
New style inductions planned
Child care students with Very
Hungry Caterpillars
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What’s Been Happening in
the Library....
Just a few of the activities and events that have taken
place in the Library this year. If you would like to hold
your event here please contact Pam Hanney.
Students’ Music Trade Show
Sustainability Week
You helped us
raise £113 for
Comic Relief
Charity Cake Sale
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New Large Print books
New to the library is a range of large print Quick Reads,
which are shelved in Fiction on the ground floor. They are
positioned at the end of the main fiction run, next to the
audio books.
We hope they will prove useful for study or leisure, so if
there is a title you would like to see in large print format,
why not recommend it for purchase? We are always on
the lookout for new resources to add to stock.
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We are pleased to announce the launch of our new
reading group - Book Club in a Bag -
Open to both students and staff
What’s in the bag? The bag includes everything you need to get started.
In the bag you’ll find - Discussion notes, reviews, book club guide and reading log (plus a few surprises).
Get together with a few friends, pick a name for your reading group,
agree on your first book and call into the library to sign up Current book titles The Help – Kathryn Stockett
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
The Other Hand – Erin Morgenstern Quick Reads Titles The Dare – John Boyne
Tackling Life – Charlie Oatway
The Perfect Holiday – Cathy Kelly
Full House – Maeve Binchy
Reaching for the Stars – Lola Jayne
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Story Time
In another new venture for the Library, we have created a
Story Time area, with a bright floor mat and a book
display car.
In liaison with the Butterflies Nursery team and Child Care
lecturers, students have the opportunity to read to
nursery children and plan activities to follow. In our first
pilot session students helped visiting tots make their own
‘Very Hungry Caterpillars.’
We are hoping these activities will become a regular
feature. It was lovely seeing the students working with
the small children – listening, playing and drawing in the
Library.
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New Journals
These are some of the latest journals to be added to the
library portfolio – Oh Comely (on portrait photography),
Ranger and Conservation Management (environmental
issues & land management) and Therapy Today (articles
and news concerning theraputic practice).
If you are thinking of recommending a publication, please
pass the details to your subject contact in the library.
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Book Review - Kes
by Barry Hines Book Review by Barry Ingledew
Although written in the 1960's this book remains as poignant
and striking as it was when published. Depicting the life of a
teenage boy, named Billy Casper, the book covers just one day of
his life. In that single day the book
encapsulates the boy’s dedication
towards his Kestrel, his turbulent home
life and troubled schooling. The brutality
of life around the mines of Yorkshire is
depicted perfectly and the author, once
a teacher himself, paints an astute
portrait of education at that time.
Throughout the entire book its main
character is depicted struggling against the people who oppress
him - his family, teachers and those who say he will 'work down
the mines'. By the end of the book the reader has encountered
everything from passion, jealously and hatred, but throughout
the novel the overriding feeling is of one boy trying to survive and
the love of a kestrel called "Kes".
Is there a book you particularly love and would like to recommend we add to our stock?
Perhaps you would like to write a book review for our Library Update?
And also, don’t forget that you can join our Book Club in a Bag.
There are lots of titles to choose from.
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Tour Stop
Please wait here for a tour of the library
Looking ahead to
Autumn term...
Library Inductions
Library Inductions never follow the same format for long,
and this year is no exception!
We are going for a ‘back-to-basics’ approach, with all the
important information for students delivered on the
move while touring round the Library. We plan to
demonstrate the self-issue machines and show off all the
facilities as we go (silly walk not mandatory).
To book your students in for a 15 minute tour, send the
details to [email protected] Please include
desired date, time, course and size of group.
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Library Contacts
The Library Information Desk 01785 275436 or ext.3165
Email [email protected]
Subject Enquiries
Pamela Hanney - [email protected] Faculty of Professional Studies Faculty of Skills, Support & Enterprise Faculty of Technology
Jayne Brazier - [email protected] Faculty of Arts
Cathy Simpson - [email protected] Access
Care & Early Years Foundation Learning
Psychology
Sociology
Joanne Clarke - [email protected] Business Equality & Diversity
Law Public Services Sport & Leisure
Tourism
Gail Ridgway - [email protected] Education and Staff Development
English
Languages
Maths
Media, Music and Performing Arts
Georgina Young - [email protected] Beauty, Hair and Complementary Therapies Catering
Health & Safety
Sciences Technology