I had the pleasure of attending a public lecture recently, Lee Shearman: The Micro Library. Lee, who graduated in Fine Art from the University of Porsmouth in 1998, shared the highlights and some cautionary tales from his career so far.…
Category: Subjects: Creative Arts
BBC Monitoring: Trial e-resource
Want access to an online resource filled with up to date news, articles, broadcasts and social media sources? Plus location specific articles from over 150 countries worldwide, and a full reference list for all bibliographic needs! Sound useful? Well a…
eLexicons for Fashion and Graphic Arts
Graphic Design and Illustration students may be familiar with the eLexicons resource, but a new Fashion lexicon has just been added. eLexicons, provides reliable and contextualized learning resources for the visual arts, including Fashion, Textile Design, Typography, Graphic Design, Graphic Art,…
Posted in Subjects: Creative Arts Tagged with: databases, e-resources, fashion, graphic design, illustration
Your favourite IBBY books
Last Wednesday afternoon visitors to the library were greeted with a display of 52 of the best illustrated children’s books from around the World. We asked you to select your favourite book from the IBBY Honours List display, a task which was…
Digital Theatre Plus
Digital Theatre Plus is a useful resource for teachers and students of Performing Arts or English Literature. It can also be enjoyed by anyone who enjoys dramatic or musical performance. It is mostly a video-based teaching resource for schools and…
Posted in Reviews, Subjects: Creative Arts, Subjects: Humanities Tagged with: databases, films, literature, music, theatre, videos
Rediscovering the “Pompey Messiah”
It was certainly one of those WOW moments: when he found something wonderful he wasn’t really expecting. “I was in Portsmouth Central Library”, principal lecturer Dr. George Burrows tells me, “trying to find something historic about music and Portsmouth I…
Free trial: Intellect art and architecture journals
We now have trial access to ten visual arts journals published by Intellect until 20th April 2017, all available here. Click below for access to sample content from individual titles: Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education Craft Research Critical Studies in…
Posted in Services, Subjects: Creative Arts Tagged with: architecture, art, CCI, crafts, illustration, news2017
Intellect visual arts journals free trial
Are you into Art? A comic aficionado? A self-confessed computer graphics nerd? None of the above but just enjoy pretty pictures? If you answered “maybe” to any of the above, this trial is for you! We now have trial access…
Intellect journals free trial
We are pleased to offer trial access to part of ten leading visual arts journals until 20th April 2017. Click on a journal below, click “View online”, and then look for the issues and articles marked with a blue square and an ‘F’…
Entertainment Industry Data
For those of you who enjoy watching films or listening to music you might be interested to know there is a database (owned by the Academic Rights Press) available through the University Library that holds film and music data from the…
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