Friday, 20 December 2013

Christmas stockings!

Have you ever left a Christmas stocking untouched? I thought not! What sacrilege that would be!


Many, many people (perhaps including you), do not always appreciate librarianly advice - perhaps not even ASK for it.

So, I know you haven't asked for this, but let me do the honours and 'unwrap' the contents of a virtual Christmas stocking - just for you, dear Engling. The collective wisdom of five library staff have put these stocking 'fillas' together...............I am sure that you will enjoy every one!
  • Watch David Tennant, and others in 'Much Ado About Nothing' on Digital Theatre Plus (check here for login details)
  • Read a Cambridge Companion online- just so easy to download a chapter onto your paperwhite Kindle paperwhite to take on that skiing trip you have planned
  • Pinterest - our Library's newly purchased books and DVDs. You might even spot the perfect dissertation secondary crit book there
  • Think differently - read the 'Ragged-trousered philanthropists' (staff member recommendation)
  • Mug  - bring to the first tea@three in the Library in Lent Term
  • UbuWeb - what, you've never heard of it? Somewhere in the ether it says that: "UbuWeb was founded in response to the marginal distribution of crucial avant-garde material"
  • London Underground Shakespeare map - a very very cool map for the visually minded and the RSC have been especially inventive in promoting it. Quick- you might get a tea towel for mum for Christmas.
  • USB powered electric pencil sharpener - to use just before you go into the Manuscripts Room at the UL
  • Bookfinder or AddAll are good sources for finding cheap copies of texts that you want to scribble in - highly recommended by library staff who get twitchy when you write in books
  • ejournals@cambridge....hmmmm....the best evah site to find ALL the online journals Cambridge has - pleeeese don't just use JSTOR
And just in case all of this is not enough you could get some wonderful (occasionally useless, but fun all the same) 'stocking filla type' information by following us on Twitter or Facebook

Well - we've dredged what's left of our collective brains and there's nothing left.......ENJOY your Christmas stocking and have a very good vacation.

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