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Pathway2Information and Pathway2Study Skills will be moving to a new study skills website which will bring these generic online study and information skills support together in one place.

Staff may wish to start updating any links in documentation or webpages to the new site at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/teaching/studyskills.  Some changes to URLs and content may still occur during ongoing development so we advise not linking to particular pages at this stage.

 Please note that the Pathways page at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pathways and Pathways content in WebCT will no longer be available in the new academic year but redirects to the new study skills home page will be in place. 

 The content is now organised into three sections:

• Managing your studies
• Finding information for assignments
• Finding information for research

Additional sections entitled academic integrity, online learning environment and distance learners are also available.

 A number of enhancements are still planned, including revisions to the home page to set study skills in a wider context of transition to university.

 If you have any comments about the development of the study skills website please contact Rachel Scudamore (Rachel.Scudamore@nottingham.ac.uk).

 If you have any feedback on the design or content of the pages please contact:

• Managing your studies section:  Lisa Rull (Lisa.Rull@nottingham.ac.uk)
• Finding information for assignments and research sections: Jenny Coombs (Jenny.Coombs@nottingham.ac.uk)

On Thursday 21st June 2012, 6.30pm – 8.30pm there will be a Poetry Workshop at the D.H. Lawrence Heritage Centre in Eastwood.

Lecturer in Writing and Creativity at the University of Nottingham and award winning author Matthew Welton will lead this poetry workshop.

Admission to these events is FREE. Pre-booking is advised to avoid disappointment as places are limited.

For further details contact the D.H. Lawrence Heritage Centre on (01773)717353.

These events are the result of a two-year funded partnership between D.H. Lawrence Heritage, Broxtowe Borough Council, and The University of Nottingham.

There will be a Reading Group on Thursday 14th June 2012, 6.30pm – 7.30pm at the D.H. Lawrence Centre.

Dr Andrew Harrison and Dr Kevin Harvey, from the School of English at the University of Nottingham, will lead a discussion of D.H. Lawrence’s short story ‘Strike-Pay’.

Copies of the text are available from the D.H. Lawrence Heritage Centre in advance of the session.

Admission to these events is FREE. Pre-booking is advised to avoid disappointment as places are limited.

For further details contact the D.H. Lawrence Heritage Centre on (01773)717353.

These events are the result of a two-year funded partnership between D.H. Lawrence Heritage, Broxtowe Borough Council, and The University of Nottingham.

Finalists graduating summer 2012

Please return all your library loans before you leave.

Returning Students

Your 8 week loan books may be requested by other borrowers during the summer vacation and the loan period may be shortened. Please remember to check your email account for recall notices and return books by post, if necessary.

Books not requested by other borrowers may be renewed online

All your library books due on 2 July 2012 should be returned or renewed during the month of June

Online renewals can be carried out on UNLOC

The Denis Arnold Music Library will be closing at 4.30pm from Friday May 18 until the end of term, June 22nd.  Thereafter, normal Vacation Hours will come in to force. Weekend opening will also be suspended from this date.  The revised hours from this date are, therefore:

Monday-Friday: 9.30am to 4.30pm.  There will be no weekend opening until the new academic year.

Lending desks at the following libraries will open over the Bank Holiday on Monday 4^th and Tuesday 5^th June 2012, from 9am until 5pm:

Hallward, George Green, Greenfield Medical, Djanogly Learning Resource Centre, Business Library and James Cameron Gifford.

24/7 opening continues.

Other libraries will be closed.

We are currently running a trial of The Parker Library on the Web.    

This database is a collection of high-resolution digital copies of most manuscripts in the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.  The Old English, Anglo-Norman and Middle English texts include theology, music, medieval travelogues and maps, apocalypses, bestiaries, royal ceremonies, historical chronicles and Bibles.

From the publisher:  “The Parker Library’s holdings of Old English texts account for a substantial proportion of all extant manuscripts in Anglo-Saxon, including the earliest copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 890), unique copies of Old English poems and other texts, and King Alfred’s translation of Gregory the Great’s Pastoral Care. The Parker Library also contains key Anglo-Norman and Middle English texts ranging from the Ancrene Wisse and the Brut Chronicle to one of the finest copies of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. Other subjects represented in the collection are theology, music, medieval travelogues and maps, apocalypses, bestiaries, royal ceremonies, historical chronicles and Bibles. The Parker Library holds a magnificent collection of English illuminated manuscripts, such as the Bury and Dover Bibles (c. 1135 and c. 1150) and the Chronica maiora by Matthew Paris (c. 1230-50). Scholars in a variety of disciplines – including historians of art, music, science, literature, politics and religion – find invaluable resources in the Library’s collection.”

The trial can be accessed on campus only, at http://parkerweb.stanford.edu.

In the latest release of Literature Online…

Further Companions to Literature volumes

This release of Literature Online now includes the next batch of volumes from the Companions to Literature series from Cambridge University Press. More than 110 volumes from this acclaimed series of critical texts, containing more than 1,700 individual essays, are now fully searchable and readable alongside Literature Online’s extensive collection of full-text journals.

To access this content you can search via the Criticism search page or browse a list of volumes and constituent essays from the link in the Complete Contents. This release contains 116 volumes from the series including Companions to Caryl Churchill, Mark Twain, Old English Literature, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Literature of the First World War. Forthcoming releases of Literature Online will include still more from this renowned series of key critical works.

Please launch the eLibrary Gateway to access LION.

We’ve added 357 Science and Engineering book titles to stock in April.

For a complete list click on “New books (Science and Engineering)” in the links section on the right hand side of this screen.

The list includes titles in the George Green Library, Djanogly Learning Resource Centre (Computing), Hallward Library (Built Environment) and the James Cameron Gifford Library (Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine and Science).