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Hilary Term 2008 – rolling recall of term books and vacation borrowing A rolling recall will be run at the end of Hilary Term, with the final date for the return of term books being 5th March (Wednesday of week 8). Readers eligible to do so will be able to begin borrowing books for the Easter Vacation from Monday of week 8, 3rd March Until closing time on Wednesday, 5th March normal term borrowing limits will remain in force, but from 9am Thursday, 6th March borrowing limits for the vacation will be increased to 20 books. Vacation books will be issued for the period 3rd March 2008 – 21st April 2008. They can of course be returned and exchanged during this period. You may renew your term books online for the vacation provided that they are not overdue, have had no reserves placed on them or have not been renewed before. Likewise at the end of the vacation you may renew online up to 10 items on the same conditions. Readers are reminded that reservations placed during term and not fulfilled by Friday of week 7 will automatically expire at that point. Anyone still wishing to obtain a copy of a particular title will need to replace the reservation from Saturday of week 7, March 1st. Visiting students and academic visitors whose membership expires in March or April are not eligible for vacation borrowing but can borrow as normal until 13th March after which the final date for the return of their books will be Thursday 20th March.
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22.02.08 |
Vacation opening hours: 10-14 March: Mon.-Fri.: 09:00-19:00; Sat. 15 March: 10:00-13:00 17-20 March: Mon.-Thurs.: 09:00-17:30 Closed: 21-24 March 25 March-11 April: Mon.-Fri.: 09:00-17:30; closed Saturdays 14-18 April: Mon.-Fri. 09:00-19:00; Sat. 19 April 10:00-13:00 |
22.02.08 |
New e-Resources: Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 EHA is a fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist. The database covers 8,000 issues and more than 600,0000 pages, offering full-colour images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, together with a gallery of front covers (via the browse by date option). Maps, images and financial tables can be searched separately. Selected financial tables published after May 1983 can be exported using links in the blue box to left of the page image. Access is via OxLIP; remote access with VPN or the ATHENS password. See http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/13949/Remote_access_guide.pdf for more information. 19th Century British Library Newspapers This long-awaited resource gives free online access to two million fully searchable pages in 48 national and regional titles chosen by leading experts and academics from the holdings of the British Library. From the Glasgow Herald to the Graphic, from the Illustrated Police News to the Preston Chronicle, the collection greatly enhances research into the history, society and culture of the UK from 1800 to 1900. Other titles included are for instance Cobbet’s Weekly Political Register, The Examiner, etc. A full list of titles is at http://www.bl.uk/collections/britishnewspapers1800to1900list.html The website also offers contextual essays regarding the role of newspapers in the Victorian age, bibliographic head-notes and a chronological overview. Please note that the project is still in progress and is not due for completion until sometime in 2008. Access is via OxLIP. You will need VPN to access it remotely. See http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/13949/Remote_access_guide.pdf for more information.
Eighteenth Century Journals: a portal to newspapers and periodicals c1685 to 1815 This is a digital collection of 18th century journals published between 1693 and 1799, including many rare or ephemeral titles drawn from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre, University of Texas at Austin. The journals are invaluable to the study of all aspects of the eighteenth century, including crime, sport, advertising, the theatre; fashion; politics, revolution; agriculture; social issues and society life. There are also polemics, poetry, letters to the press, reviews of drama and novels, contemporary adverts and essays on almost every conceivable topic. Examples of wide-ranging topics covered:
For a listing of titles, please see: http://www.18thcjournals.amdigital.co.uk/contents/index.aspx Access is via OxLIP. Those with VPN can also access it remotely.
Orlando: Women's writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (CUP) Orlando is a comprehensive electronic database relating to women's writing in the British Isles. It offers a wealth of biographical and critical information on more than 1000 writers, together with entries on literary and historical events. The resource provides entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, relations to publishers, sets of internal links, and bibliographies. Interacting with these materials creates a dynamic inquiry from any number of perspectives into centuries of women's writing. Access is via OxLIP; off-campus access required VPN. For more information regarding remote access, see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eresources/remote_access
Dictionnaire del'ancienne langue francaise et de tous ses dialectes du 9e au 15e siècle “The Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française is “the essential element” of old French lexicography, a major dictionary of more than 20 million words. The dictionary’s nomenclature contains more than 160,000 head entries. Collecting examples from all kinds of sources – printed papers, books and archives of libraries – F. Godefroy tried to follow the history of words in the spoken language, dialects, names of people and places. He also registered unknown words, mostly technical terms, and inserted a question mark when he could not discover the precise meaning. The dictionary gathers under each entry all written forms taken by a given word through the centuries. It also gives the translation in modern French and indicates the sources in great detail. Definitions are related to a considerable number of examples and quotations.” Access is via OxLIP; off-campus access required VPN. For more information regarding remote access, see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eresources/remote_access
Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (Brepols): “The Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL) is a full-text database of the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe from the period 400-1200 AD / CE. It contains more than 400 Latin works spanning the fields of theology, liturgy, computistics, grammar, hagiography, poetry and historiography, and including legal texts, charters, inscriptions, etc. This new online version uses the same search interface as other Brepols full-text databases (Library of Latin Texts, Monumenta Germaniae Historica).” Access is via OxLIP; off-campus access required VPN. For more information regarding remote access, see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eresources/remote_access
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3.1.08 |
Central Bodleian Library - increased opening hours on Saturdays From Saturday 4 August 2007 the following opening hours will apply on Saturdays throughout the year (unless otherwise stated): Old Bodleian Library Radcliffe Camera The Camera will be closed on Saturdays during August and September New Bodleian Library August Bank Holiday
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11.7.07 |
Split of History Faculty and History Faculty Library summer 2007 From July 2007 the History Faculty Library and the History Faculty will be in separate premises. The Library will remain in its current location in the Old Indian Institute Building in Broad Street. The Faculty of History will be based in The Old Boys School in George Street.
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27.6.07 |
Examination results: Class lists can now be found on-line at http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/schools/oxonly/results/index.shtml Please note that if you wish to access this site outside Oxford you will need to set up a Remote Access Account with OUCS. Information on how to do this can be found at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/network/remote/ |
5.7.07 |
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