Interactive maps of historical London now available!

Researchers have unveiled a new interactive map that reveals London’s social history in unprecedented detail, enabling users to explore everything from the world’s first gay scene to eighteenth century riots.

Locating London’s Past is a new JISC-funded website that lets users delve deep into the capital’s past, revolutionising our understanding of London’s history. The website is the first to map information from a vast array of sources, covering:

• crime and punishment
• the distribution of wealth, poverty and occupations
• the ownership of consumer goods
• mortality

Using the new website, people are now able to explore fully geo-referenced detail using Google maps technology to reveal the distribution of crimes, wealth and poverty, mortality, archaeological finds, voting records and much more.

See how historical data can illuminate life in eighteenth century London and find out more about the project: http://www.locatinglondon.org/.

Visit the Old Bailey online: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/.

e-book survey - win a £20 Amazon gift voucher!

The Library is currently undertaking a survey in order to find out what people think about e-books. We would like to know your views so if you would like to complete the survey and have the chance of winning a £20 Amazon gift voucher, please complete the survey which can be found here:

More infomation about e-books - what they are, how you can access them and where you can get help using them - is also available following this link.

Library Christmas Opening Hours

This year we will be opening the Clifford Library every day over the Christmas week, 12 noon to 6pm. This is to provide study facilities for our members, especially our international students, who remain in Salford over the holiday.

The Library will be self service only and an ID card will be essential to gain entry.

24/7 opening will end at midnight on the 16th December.

Standard vacation hours:
Saturday 17/12/11 – Friday 23/12/11 (NB closed Saturday 17th)

Christmas opening (12 to 6pm):
Saturday 24/12/11 – Monday 02/01/12

24/7 opening: Tuesday 03/01/12 – Friday 20/01/12

Please refer to the Library web pages for specific opening times for Clifford Whitworth and information for other sites:
http://www.salford.ac.uk/library/using/openinghours

The Adelphi and Allerton Libraries will offer vacation opening from the 17th to the 23rd Dec and will be closed over the Christmas period.

Information Literacy Week: 28th Nov – 2nd Dec 2011

Do you find it easy to find the information you need for your assignments? Do you know how to reference your work correctly? If the answer is no, then you need information literacy skills.
Information literacy skills can help you find and evaluate information quickly and effectively. Developing your critical thinking skills can lead to better results.

A range of activities, for students and staff, are taking place across the University during Information Literacy Week, to raise awareness of the importance of information literacy.
Take a look at our programme at http://www.informationliteracy.salford.ac.uk/prog/ which features a number of activities taking place during the week. These include practical drop-in sessions and workshops – all designed to raise awareness of the importance of information literacy.

Please encourage your students to come along to the hands-on sessions, covering a range of topics on how to:

· find information
· get the most from SOLAR
· reference their work
· use Turnitin: the University’s e-submission tool

For most of the activities don’t require you to book – but check the programme at http://www.informationliteracy.salford.ac.uk/prog/ for details.

Turnitin drop-ins still available!

There are still some Turnitin drop-ins running through November and December. If you want help using Turnitin, or just want to learn more about it you can come along to one of the sessions.

24/11/2011 14:00-15:00 Adelphi Library Seminar Room
25/11/2011 14:00-15:00 Allerton Library Seminar Room
28/11/2011 11:00-12:00 Clifford Whitworth Library room 209
30/11/2011 14:00-15:00 Clifford Whitworth Library room 209
02/12/2011 11:00-12:00 Clifford Whitworth Library room 209
09/12/2011 11:00-12:00 Clifford Whitworth Library room 209
12/12/2011 11:00-12:00 Clifford Whitworth Library room 209
15/12/2011 11:00-12:00 Clifford Whitworth Library room 209
05/01/2012 11:00-12:00 Clifford Whitworth Library room 209
09/01/2012 11:00-12:00 Clifford Whitworth Library room 209
11/01/2012 11:00-12:00 Clifford Whitworth Library room 209
12/01/2012 11:00-12:00 Clifford Whitworth Library room 209

They are free and you do not need to book - just turn up.