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Location
National Maritime Museum

22 May 2008

Well, it seems like it's been a little while since our last post, but there's certainly been no shortage of things happening here at the Caird Library.

The first weekend of May was the Who Do You Think You Are? Live show at Olympia, where Archive and Library and other Museum staff were kept busy answering family history enquiries, telling people about our resources, and demonstrating our online catalogues and websites. I wasn't there myself, but hopefully someone will have some photos and we can post them later.

Our Readers Services Librarian, Tanya, left us last month to take up a new role at the British Library. We miss her, but hope she enjoys working with their rare book collection.

We've also had a new Manuscripts Manager, Hannah, join us in the team. Expect to see an introductory post from her soon.

There have been a lot of changes in our electronic resources collection. We've added two new resources, and there's a new page on our website to help you access them. They are only available onsite here at the museum, but I've included links to online tours so you can get a taste of how they work before you come in. The new resources are:
  • Art FullText - a database of journal articles from over 400 art publications
  • Oxford English Dictionary - an online version of the well-know historical dictionary
We've also expanded our academic collections in the JSTOR database. As well as having the Arts and Sciences II and III Collections, we now also have Arts and Sciences I, IV, V and VI, Health and General Sciences, and Biological Sciences.

Finally, Oxford have relaunched the former Grove Art as Oxford Art Online, with additional content.

If you'd like to know more about any of these, or would like to book an introduction session to our electronic resources here at the library, please send me an email at: library@nmm.ac.uk.

Renee (Digital Resources Librarian)