The Central Library will be closed from 13.00 on Friday 23rd December 2011 for the Christmas vacation and will reopen at 08.30 on Tuesday 3rd January 2012.
Medical campus libraries will close at 17.00 on Friday 23rd December 2011 and reopen at their normal opening times on Tuesday 3rd January 2012.
For further details please consult the relevant campus library page available by clicking here.
The Wavewatcher’s Companion by Gavin Pretor-Pinney was announced as the winner of this year’s £10,000 prize on 17 November 2011. Pretor-Pinney is the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, and took time out to explore and explain waves in an approachable way.
Other shortlisted titles were:
Alex’s adventures in numberland by Alex Bellos
Through the language glass: why the world looks different in other languages by Guy Deutscher
The disappearing spoon and other true tales of madness, love, and the history iof the world from the periodic table of the elements by Sam Kean
Massive: the missing particle that sparked the greatest hunt in science by Ian Sample
The rough guide to the future by Jon Turney
Click on the title to be taken to the Library record for the book and find it on the shelves. If the book is on loan already, click on the Reserve button to place a reservation.
Please be advised that if you access WRDS via UNIX or PC SAS Connect there will be a short period of downtime between 11am-2pm on 22nd November 2011 to allow for system maintenance.
The WRDS website will not be affected by this maintenance.
We are currently running a poll about how you get help from the Library. If you have a moment, please vote in the Library poll. It only takes a second and we’d really like to get a cross-section of views.
To vote, please go to the library home page and then select your answer on the right hand side.
Please be aware that between Saturday 12 November and Friday 23 December 2011 construction work will take place to improve the Central Library entrance.
During this time access to the library will be via the Library Cafe.
Please be aware that we have upgraded the interface of Thomson One Banker to Thomson One. The main content and functionality remain largely similar, however, when wishing to conduct a research report search please now use the following steps:
- In Company Views select Research
- There is a link at the top right of the screen to Advanced Research Page, click on this link
- You may now conduct your search using the Company/Industry/Geography/Contributor perameters as before
As always, if you require any assistance using the Library resources, please contact us.
This year’s winner of the Wellcome Trust Book Prize is Alice LaPlante for her book Turn of Mind. This is LaPlante’s debut novel and the first novel to win the prize. The story is from the perspecive of an eminent former surgeon who is in the last stages of Alzheimers who is suspected of the murder of her best friend. As the story progresses it reflects the state of the narrator’s mind as she enters the last stages of dimentia.
Other titles shortlisted for the prize:
The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nemesis by Philip Roth
The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
State of Wonder by Ann Pratchett
We are pleased to announce that Library Search is available for via the Library website again.
Also, click here to find out how you can get the new app for smartphones!
This year’s Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year has been announced. The winning title, Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo was awarded the £30,000 prize at the award dinner last night.
Click here to read more about Poor Economics. We have a copy of the book in the Central Library, so click here to locate it or to place a reservation.
Love them? Hate them? Don’t know what they are? Visit the Library homepage and let us know what you think by completing our quick poll. You can also click through to view the results so far!
