Courses for 2nd year Historians doing thesis research

Whether you’re still trying to settle on a topic, or already reading up on a particular area, there are a host of courses over the rest of the term that can help second year History undergraduates research their thesis topic. Specially designed for second year undergraduate Historians Library staff will be running two sessions in [...]

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WISER courses in Week 5

Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops during week 5: WISER: Information Sources for African Studies [Monday 21 May 09.15 - 10.45] – This session will cover finding tools for locating African Studies materials, key portals and gateways for African Studies and online archives of primary texts.  Starting with a presentation the session will [...]

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History Thesis Fair this afternoon

Don’t forget to come along to the Thesis Fair this afternoon.  Subject specialists will be at the North Writing Schools in the Exam Schools on the High St 2-4pm to help second year History undergraduates get ideas about resources for their thesis. Full details at www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history/thesisfair

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WISER courses in week 4

Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops during week 4:       ARTstor and Bridgeman: Using images in teaching and learning [Tuesday 15 May 14:00-16:00] – This workshops covers two major digital image collections subscribed to by the University – ARTstor and Bridgeman Education – geared to research and teaching in the humanities, history of science [...]

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Digital humanities lunchtime session 8 June 2012

Course Title: Make: Data – Towards a digital toolbox for researchers in the Humanities Date: Friday 8 June 12:30-13:30 Location: OUCS The session will present how two DPhil projects in History apply various digital tools (text encoding, data visualisation, corpus linguistics, semantic web) to analyse medieval texts.  The session is aimed at anyone interested in [...]

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We’re open on Bank Holiday Monday!

The HFL  is open on the bank holiday 7th May. See you here!  

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Print and online resources for undergraduate optional subjects

This term undergraduate historians are taking optional subjects.  Did you know that we have print and online collections to help you? Print resources Reference copies of set texts for the Honour School of Modern History are kept in a counter reserve collection behind the library desk, and are available on request for use in the [...]

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WISER Sessions next week on RefWorks and depositing your DPhil thesis in ORA

Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops during week 3: WISER: Your thesis, copyright and ORA [Wednesday 9 May 12:30 – 1:30] – Oxford DPhil students are required to deposit a copy of their thesis in ORA (Oxford University Research Archive).  This session will focus on copyright and other issues that DPhil students need [...]

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Bodleian Libraries launches new Scan and Deliver service

On 16th April the Bodleian Libraries quietly launched Scan & Deliver, a service offering an electronic document delivery service for items held in our Book Storage Facility. Instead of requesting the physical item to a reading room, you can request scans of sections (articles, chapters) direct to desktop. Scan & Deliver simply offers a convenient [...]

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Term time opening hours start again on Monday

We are back to our termtime opening hours on Monday (16th April,week 0 of Trinity Term). We will be open: Monday to Friday 9am – 7pm Saturday 10am – 1pm All vacation loans are due back on Monday of week 1, 23rd April. This term there are lots of exciting courses coming up, including WISER [...]

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