The making of Avatar by Jody Duncan & Lisa Fitzpatrick This week’s Book of the Week is about one of the most famous films of the past few years. In 1995, James Cameron began working on a story that would,…
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Creative Arts Book of the Week 07/12/15
Posted in Reviews, Subjects: Creative Arts, Subjects: Technology Tagged with: books, databases, design, films, technology, websites
Culture24
For those of you who love archives and libraries and enjoy visiting museums and art galleries, this may be the website for you. If you like finding out about forthcoming exhibitions (and anything archaeological and historical) see http://www.culture24.org.uk/home. It’s partly…
Posted in Subjects: Creative Arts, Subjects: Humanities, Subjects: Sciences Tagged with: archives, art, exhibitions, galleries, history, libraries, museums, natural history, science, websites
Spurious correlations
Did you know that the number of people drowned falling in a swimming pool correlates with the number of films Nicholas Cage has appeared in? Well perhaps not, but this page reminds us why we need to be careful with…
Black History Month book display
Black people have a long and fascinating and diverse history of participation, innovation, revolution, and leadership. You can discover more about how black people have helped shape the world at http://www.blackpast.org/ or pick up a book from our new Black History Month book display…
Everything Library online
The Library website hold the answers to many questions (current and upcoming opening hours are available here – we get asked about them a lot!). A new feature this year is the “Introducing…” section – brief outlines of everything you need to know,…
Help with your subject
We’re delighted that you find our My Subject pages helpful – they give lots of great guidance on where you can find both resources and help. We’ve just had figures for September to (nearly all of) April and this is…
Ask us by webform
We are delighted to tell you that the Ask us web form is back. Just click on the on any Library webpage and you can once again ask us anything using the simple web form rather than emailing. We will…
Business update: access to FT.com
For new users of FT.com there is a video on the library catalogue showing staff and students how to register for an account. You will need to register with your university login details in order to set up an account.…
Posted in Subjects: Business School Tagged with: business, current affairs, finance, videos, websites
Sell or swap your used textbooks
Bring, sell, swap and buy used and loved textbooks for free with other students at http://www.libr.port.ac.uk/books. You can even advertise for books you want! Photo by timuiuc
Audio Arts Archive available online
Audio Arts was originally produced as a cassette-based magazine for the new generation of British artists and art professionals to talk about their work in a free and an unmediated way. It was established in 1973 by William Furlong and Barry…
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