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I graduated from the University of Lincoln in 2009 with a first class degree in BA (HONS) Media Production. I realised that getting experience in the industry would also be very beneficial to my degree so during the summer break of my second year I managed to get the role of camera assistant on a short [...]

< Wilhelm scream >: it’s student induction season in the Fens again. Library induction presentation for new students beginning foundation degrees (FdSc Food Manufacture / FdSc Agriculture & Environment) at the University of Lincoln’s National Centre for Food Manufacturing, Holbeach Campus, south Lincolnshire: September 2010. (Explanation: even though I haven’t really been a subject librarian for a couple [...]

I’ve recently rekindled my relationship with LibraryThing. Enough to pay the $25 suggested fee for lifetime membership. I’ve commented in the past that I don’t understand why more library people—even those who don’t ‘get’ general social networking—aren’t into LibraryThing in a big way.

“From a personal profile displaying your own book collections (complete with cover images, tagging, and full bibliographic detail), [...]

More photos showing the results of our hard work this summer to improve your libraries for 2010/11…

Here are some of the changes you’ll see at the Riseholme Park Campus Library:

The Library is pleased to announce that Blackwell will open a temporary bookshop in the front of the GCW University Library on 20th September . This is part of Blackwell Connect, where a temporary campus bookshop is supported by a co-branded booksales website, available all year round. This is a model already in existence at a number of [...]

Kate Ogborn at Fly Films is looking for a recent graduate to help with research for an archive-based documentary being developed by acclaimed film-maker Ken Loach which Kate is producing. The brief from Kate is as follows… “We are looking for someone, based in the East Midlands , to work alongside our archive researcher Jim Anderson. Jim is currently sourcing the [...]

September always feels more like  a ‘new year’ than January does. There’s a sense of anticipated difference – in the levels of noise, people, activity, queues and above all start of semester work-loads. Only this year I haven’t  actually stopped working. I don’t know where the summer’s gone, only that I havent gone anywhere with [...]

  ‘Journeys through the Labyrinth’ workshop, under the University of Kent’s Creative Campus initiative, was an opportunity to learn more about the labyrinth and its use as a blueprint for a journey – whether through work, study, or major life decisions and transitions. The day included exploration of the history, meaning and impact of labyrinths in [...]

Professor John Tulloch, Head of the Lincoln School of Journalism at the University of Lincoln: Tony Blair’s political memoirs will not win a Nobel Prize for great writing, but they are an unusually significant addition to the memoir genre, and distinctly more interesting than the average tombstones produced by retired Prime Ministers. Hand on heart, Blair [...]

Today, after wresting the iPad from Paul, I was wandering around the GCW with it making some notes for another project (a new group room booking system if you must know). This felt quite cool I must admit, and let me get a grasp of how the iPad would feel if someone had to walk [...]

The Research Office (including the Graduate School ) is relocating to the Enterprise @ Lincoln building on 8th September . We are moving to Innovation Labs 1 and 2 which are on the first floor of the building. We will be closed on the 8th as furniture and files are moved across from EMMTEC. The office reopens on 9th September. [...]

Audio Production Lecturer David McSherry has added to his extensive musical repertoire following the release of the album ‘Enter Calico’ See Amazon entry David, who is based within Media Humanities and Technology and lectures on Audio Production, composed the first track on the album which was released by the Clear Notice record label last month. “Back in [...]

The university has a staff suggestion scheme that rewards good ideas from staff. I’ve just submitted a proposal to the university for help in setting up a Social Science Centre. This is based loosely on an unsuccessful bid to HEFCE that we made a couple of months ago to develop an ‘academic commons’ of sustainable, [...]

Turnitin, the Plagiarism detection service, will be getting a new look on Sept. 4th. While it’s not been easy to get previews, a few screencasts have now been released and can be seen at http://www.screencast.com/t/NTVjYWExY I thought I’d briefly summarise the main changes here. There are some changes to the user interface, which seem to me [...]

Peter Smith, visiting lecturer in Journalism, communications and politics at the University of Lincoln: In what is either the reverse of serendipity or cunningly planned, the launch of Tony Blair’s book has brought division and rift in the Labour Party into sharp focus, just as the party faithful were being asked to choose from a leadership [...]