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E-books lunchtime drop-in session this Thursday 7th February
Want to learn more about how to find and use e-books? Have you got a Kindle, an iPad, a Nook, or a Smart Phone but aren't sure which of the library e-books you can read or download onto it?An...
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NEW: Balfour Library Pinterest online pinboard to publicise books and e-books...
I have created a Pinterest online pinboard for the Balfour Library at: http://pinterest.com/zoolib/. It comprises several separate ‘boards’ with book cover images ‘pinned’ on. It includes an ‘E-books...
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New acquisition
The evolution of parental care, edited by Nick J. Royle, Per T. Smiseth, and Mathias Koelliker. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: GFU (342).See also our new Pinterest...
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Open access, research, and publishing - updates
As part of the University's project to prepare for RCUK's new Open Access policy (www.openaccess.cam.ac.uk), CARET is conducting interviews and workshops to find out more about the research and...
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The British warblers : a history with problems of their lives
This is a virtual exhibition of The British warblers : a history with problems of their lives, by H. EliotHoward. Vol 1-9. London : 1907-1915. Balfour Library shelfmark: Britain 443-453. The original...
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Balfour & Newton Libraries' Conservation Project - progress so far
L-R: Sue, Wendy, Audrey and Pam (Diane absent)Our wonderful team of NADFAS Heritage Volunteers has now cleaned 79% of the Balfour & Newton Libraries' Special Collections! Here they are pictured...
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New acquisitions
New books purchased:The dodo and the solitaire: a natural history, by Jolyon C. Parish. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press; 2013. Balfour Library shelfmark:qKD (9). (Quarto -...
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Codebreakers: makers of modern genetics
Codebreakers: makers of modern genetics, the Wellcome Library's new digital resource which contains over a million pages of books and archives relating to the history of genetics, has now been...
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Easter Vacation information
Here is a special Easter egg basket of information to help you get through the vacation!Balfour (Zoology) Library end of term informationLent Term 2013 ends on Friday 15th March. All books on loan from...
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New acquisitions
New printed books and e-books have been purchased by the Balfour Library!Please visit our new Pinterest online pinboard (see the boards for 'New e-books March 2013' and 'New books March 2013') to find...
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Rare book now on display
A history of the birds of Europe including all the species inhabiting the Western Palaearctic region, by Henry E. Dresser. Volume 3. London: Published by the author; 1871-1887.Due to popular demand,...
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New e-book purchased by the Zoology Library!
We have just purchased the e-book Vision and brain : how we perceive the world, by James V. Stone.To see and access all the e-books available in zoology and neuroscience, and to keep up-to-date with...
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New acquisitions
Acquisitions made in April so far can be found on our Pinterest site at http://pinterest.com/zoolib/See the board for 'New books April 2013'.I have also created a new board for 'Life science...
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UL Drop-in sessions for dissertation and research help
As part of the University Library's Research Skills Programme, a number of drop-in sessions will take place during Easter term which will offer help with dissertations and research. Sessions will take...
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Scan and Deliver: re-launch of the CSL scanning service
The service, offered by the Central Science Library (CSL), is provided to allow current staff and students at the University to be able to get scanned copies of material from printed works that is not...
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New acquisitions
Acquisitions made in May so far can be found on our Pinterest site at http://pinterest.com/zoolib/See the board for 'New books May 2013'.We have also received a new thesis:Mechanisms of intestinal...
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BHL - Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their...
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Rare book on loan for exhibition at Gainsborough's House
The Balfour Library is pleased to have loaned a book from its special collections for exhibition at Gainsborough's House, the museum and birthplace of 18th century landscape and portrait artist Thomas...
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IOS Press trial
IOS Press publishes more than 100 international journals each year on subjects ranging from computer sciences and mathematics to medicine and the natural sciences. IOS have granted the University of...
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How to use e-books on mobile devices
Many of the e-books that the University has purchased can be downloaded Android and Apple (iOS) devices including tablets, smartphones, iPads and iPhones, as well as e-readers such as Sony ereader,...
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Guilford Press trial
Guilford Press is a publisher of books, periodicals, software, and DVDs in mental health, education, geography, and the social and behavioral sciences. They publish 12 journals and the University of...
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New e-books purchased by the Zoology Library!
The Balfour Library has purchased two new e-books on using R: Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R, by Alain F. Zuur ... [et al.], and Analysis of phylogenetics and evolution with R,...
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Legal Deposit Libraries legislation now covers electronic publications
Legal Deposit now covers material published digitally and online, so that the Legal Deposit Libraries can provide a national archive of the UK’s non-print published material, such as websites, blogs,...
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New acquisitions
Acquisitions made in September so far can be found on our Pinterest site at http://pinterest.com/zoolib/See the board for 'New books September 2013'.We have also received some new theses:Conflict,...
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End of rare book cleaning project celebration
On Tuesday 3rd September we marked the end of the rare books cleaning project with a very special celebration.The volunteers, Jane, me, Richard and MichaelThe volunteers had finished cleaning all 8,750...
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