Birth of modern China in massive online archive

8,000 rare photographs of Chinese life in the early twentieth century have just launched online through the Visualising China project, a unique virtual archive giving researchers new opportunities to explore and interact with images of China taken between 1850-1950.

Sources for Courses: new additions for modern Wales at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Visit the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) or visit via Databases A-Z in Primo http://primo.aber.ac.uk/.

In their “focus on Modern Wales” in May, the ODNB added 45 biographies of men and women who, “shaped the history of Welsh culture, politics, industry and sport”.

Connected Histories

Connected Histories provides a single point of access to a wide range of distributed digital resources relating to early modern and nineteenth-century British history. It allows structured searching by names, places, and dates and provides access to millions of pages of text, hundreds of thousands of words and tens of thousands of maps and images. With the click of a mouse, researchers can find rich bodies of evidence for virtually any topic in British history; whether royal weddings, parliamentary reform movements, famous criminals, or the lives of plebeian Londoners.

Resource updates from ProQuest: Thursday 9th June

ProQuest’s Rebecca Price is visiting Information Services on the morning of Thursday 9th June to provide three update sessions on the new ProQuest platform and the ProQuest resources to which we subscribe.

200 years of news!

- Search the full text
- See articles as part of the page they were printed on
- Sort search results by news, feature, image and advertisement
- See your search term highlighted on the page image
- Pick a date and browse that issue

'Welcome to your Library 2010' wins an award

For September 2010 Information Services redesigned the library induction experience for undergraduates. We wanted students' first experiences of the library to be informative but also enjoyable and engaging, so we re-thought every aspect of the induction: location, content, marketing, timetabling, technologies, even seating - hence the famous beanbags! As a result we won the 'Highly Commended' award in the Welsh Marketing Innovation Awards (Higher Education category) for our 'Welcome to your Library 2010' sessions, most of which took place on the 27th-30th September, 10am-5pm each day.