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Christmas breakfast – come eat drink and be merry..

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at our end of year get together. Croissants, fruit and all of the usual favourites will be on offer all for festive sum of £1.50 accepted on the day. Friday 19th September December 9 -10am in the Reader Services work space.    See you there and have a very Merry Christmas.

Written by Di Walker

December 10th, 2008 at 7:56 am

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GCW in THE, OK?

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http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=404393&c=1 “Stem Architects were inspired by the secret monastic library in Umberto Eco’s novel The Name of the Rose to create a traditional library where scholars could absorb themselves in private study.” You learn something new every day.

Written by Paul Stainthorp

November 20th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

Old photos of Brayford Campus

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I’ve been uploading our collection of old (and not-so-old) pictures of the GCW to flickr. But I thought you might also be interested in this site (found by Julian) with some pictures of the whole of the Brayford site, in the before… http://www.leytransport.i12.com/holmes.htm

Written by Paul Stainthorp

November 19th, 2008 at 7:00 am

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In the nick of time!

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Staff at Brayford may be asked about a special report on the EU that can be found in the Economist May 31st 2008 entitled ‘In the Nick of time: a special report on EU enlargement’.  We do have a copy on the third floor, but the special report can also be found on Business Source Premier (EBSCO) – [...]

Written by Alison Sharman

October 3rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm

Blogging tip #3 – avoiding campus-ism

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This is more of a departmental guideline than a tip… and it applies when writing for the Portal, Blackboard, etc., as well as for the blogs. Try and remember the other 3 campuses! If you’re writing for a Brayford audience about something which only applies to Lincoln, then make it clear in the story (and [...]

Written by Paul Stainthorp

September 17th, 2008 at 12:46 pm