what we can do for you!!

Cardiff Metropolitan Library Service can obtain materials for you that we do not have in the Collection already.

 Our Document delivery team based at Llandaff will send for journal articles and books using our Inter Library Loan service, they can also obtain DVD's for you to view from TRILT , a database of  programmes broadcast on British Television and you can order digital versions of theses using the British Library ETHOS service.

Come along to our event on April 29th to meet members of Doc Del and hear about what they can do for you!

Invitation

Come along find out about the new developments in Document Delivery, Inter Library Loans & Digitisation.

New Developments:

·       eRequesting

·       TRILT

·       EThOS

Where: Yellow Room, Howard Gardens Library

When: 1pm – 4.00pm, April 29^th, 2013

Open Educational Resources at UAL and MIT

There are many free resources on the Internet, we know this;  the ones known as  Open  Educational Resources: (OER's) comprise educational material that can be freely used by anyone without any copyright restrictions. An OER can be anything from a streamed video like this one showing the sand casting process to this link to an entire course on Anthropology

The sandcasting video, is from Process Arts, managed by Chris Follows at University of the Arts London (UAL)  c.follows@arts.ac.uk

Process Arts  focuses on "making" in art and design . This  site shows  insights into the acts of making and encourages users to share knowledge and experience online. You can  go there to explore  traditional and contemporary creative technical processes , and see work and the processes involved in its making online through  video, text, image and sound .

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here are the most viewed items from Process Arts. Look to the right of the page for a full list of Resources

Interesting courses including bibliographies, online texts and images etc  are available from the MIT site where the Anthropology course linked above was taken from. Courses include many other subject areas of interest such as media studies, history, literature, music and theatre arts, women's and gender studies. MIT is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose mission  is "to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century".

The Arts Desk

Anish Kapoor’s Leviathan, a commission for the Monumenta series at the Paris Grand Palais

Here's a great newletter to keep you up with a wide range of items on what's new and good in the media and the arts . Here you will find theatre and film reviews, features on matters of interest such as  'Is Classical music relevant?'or a list of this year's Festivals , and CD, DVD and book reviews and interviews with people from the arts and a comprehensive listing of whats on in cinemas, theatres, galleries and concert halls. Sign up and get a weekly round up of all this in your inbox. As well as seeing  the very latest in the arts you can also view the archives of the newsletter. To subscribe look for the box on the right hand side of this page halfway down

The BBC Archive contains the equivalent to 600,000 hours of TV and about 350,000 hours of radio-nearly a million hours of material, and a record of the BBC's websites are being added to a New Media archive. The archive is organised into 'Collections' here. The Art and Artists Collection includes archival material on British Sculpture that has recently been augmented with a selection of programmes on major British sculptors such as Epstein Moore and Whiteread- prefect timing for the interest that will be generated by the Royal Academy show on British Sculpture which opened 22nd January . The archive also offers print archival material. Read the history of Dr Who through audience reports, Radio Times interviews and BBC memos in the Collection entitled 'The Changing Face of Doctor Who | How to regenerate a Time Lord'.