Cyfnodau Benthyca dros y Nadolig

O ddydd Mercher 9 Rhagfyr, bydd y rhan fwyaf o eitemau a fenthycwch o’r Llyfrgell a’r Ganolfan Adnoddau Addysgu i’w dychwelyd ddydd Mercher 13 Ionawr 2010. Bydd y cyfnodau benthyca arferol yn berthnasol i eitemau Band Melyn.

Bydd y Llyfrgell ar gau rhwng 24 Rhagfyr 2009 – 3 Ionawr 2010 yn gynhwysol.

Christmas Loan Periods

From Wednesday 9 December, most items you borrow from the Library and Teaching Resources Centre will be issued until Wednesday 13 January 2010. Yellow Band items will be subject to the usual loan periods.

Please note that the Library will be closed from 24 December 2009 to 3 January 2010 inclusive.

Wills & Probate Records Digititised

Wills, which were proved in the Welsh ecclesiastical courts before the introduction of Civil Probate on 11 January 1858, have been deposited in the National Library of Wales. The old indexes produced by the courts themselves have now been replaced by a new online index.

Free access is now available to digital images of the wills. At the moment no digital images are available for Hawarden, Brecon or St Asaph pre 1660.

The covering dates of the surviving probate records are:

Bangor: 1635 - 1858
Brecon: 1543 - 1858
Chester (Welsh wills): 1557 - 1858
Hawarden: 1554 - 1858
Llandaf: 1568 - 1857
St Asaph: 1565 - 1857
St David's: 1556 - 1858

New online tool will help connect history

The ‘Connected Histories’ project, which is a partnership between the Universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire, the Institute of Historical Research, and King’s College London, will create an innovative search engine for a wide range of electronic resources relating to early modern and nineteenth century British history.

This period of British history has one of the largest collections of digital sources available on the web, including not only digitised books, but also newspapers, manuscripts, genealogical records, and even maps and images. These sources, created by both academic and commercial organisations, are accessed by hundreds of thousands of individuals every day, across the world. Until now, there has been no single starting place to search through these sources.

The website will be fully launched in 2011.

Find out more about the Project @ http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/econtent/connectedhistories.aspx

Social Policy and Practice database 30 day trial

We currently have a 30 day trial to the Social Policy and Practice database which can be accessed on campus by following this link http://ovidsp.ovid.com/autologin.html.

You can use it to find references to journal articles, reports, surveys and statistics on a wide range of topics such as:

• Social care
• Homelessness
• Children and young people
• Education
• Equalities
• Public & social policy

Let us know what you think of this new resource by emailing LRC@trinity-cm.ac.uk

Last chance to enter!

With just 2 weeks to go, now is the time to get your entries in for the Library Arts competition. The first prize is £500 worth of high street vouchers and the chance to meet Ruth Jones, star of Gavin and Stacey. For more details visit http://library.wales.org/ or call in the library for an application form.

Closing date: 1st December 2009
Good luck!

Shakespeare Quartos Archive opens access to Hamlet

The highly-anticipated Shakespeare Quartos Archive has been officially launched today with a complete digital collection¹ of rare early editions of Hamlet.

For the first time, all 32 existing quarto copies of the play held by participating UK and US institutions are freely available online in one place. This initiative is jointly led by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, through a joint transatlantic grant from Jisc in the UK and the National Endowment for the Humanities in the US.

Ever feel like you’re looking for a needle in a haystack?

Do you feel like you can never find what you’re looking for, do you spend hours searching the internet only to hit a brick wall? - The Learning Resources Centre is on hand to help. We are able to offer tailor-made sessions for staff and students to help develop research skills. Offered on a one-to-one basis or in a group workshop style training session our trained LRC staff can help you on a variety of topics including:

· Using the library catalogue
· Using e-books and e-journals
· Using databases
· Using the internet effectively
· Referencing

To book your session please contact 01267 676780 or lrc@trinity-cm.ac.uk

Artist's gift of veteran drawings

A Welsh artist who painted two of Britain's World War I veterans shortly before their deaths has gifted final drawings of the pair to the nation.

Dan Llywelyn Hall, 29, originally from Cardiff, painted Henry Allingham, who was then the world's oldest man just a few days before he passed away.

His portrait of Britain's last Tommy, Harry Patch, 111, was completed by the artist months earlier.

The preparatory drawings made during sittings with the veterans have been gifted to the Royal Collection and the National Museum Wales to preserve them for future generations.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8348277.stm for further details.

Literature Online

Have you tried Literature Online?

It contains:

• over 350,000 works of poetry, prose and drama in English from the 8th Century to the present day
• over 250 carefully selected full-text journals
• over 4,300 specially commissioned biographies
• records for more than 18,000 authors
• unique multimedia content reference works, essays and MORE all from your desktop!

Try it here: http://lionreference.chadwyck.co.uk/

(Athens password reuired if you're not on the Trinity campus)

Participation in the outdoors

Have you seen the magazine Countyside Recreation? The Summer issue is entirely devoted to "Participation in the outdoors" with articles on Forest Schools, and barriers to visiting the outdoors. Follow the link below to take a look:


http://www.countrysiderecreation.org.uk/journal/Summer2009/Summer_2009-All.pdf

Child obesity "is levelling off"

The National Heart Forum has published new research which shows that childhood obesity may be levelling off in children in England. A new updated forecast suggests that levels of obesity may be in decline. To see the whole report follow the link below:

http://www.heartforum.org.uk/Publications_NHFreports_Obesity_RecentTrendsinChildren.aspx

First World War Poetry Digital Archive

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.

The heart of the archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas. This is supplemented by a comprehensive range of multimedia artefacts from the Imperial War Museum, a separate archive of over 6,500 items contributed by the general public, and a set of specially developed educational resources. These educational resources include an exciting new exhibition in the three-dimensional virtual world Second Life.

Freely available to the public as well as the educational community, the First World War Poetry Digital Archive is a significant resource for studying the First World War and the literature it inspired.

See : http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/