Category Archives: European Union

New EU leaflets!

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We’ve just added some new EU leaflets and booklets to the designated stand on Level 2 (next to the Information Desk – look out for the EU emblem).  Titles  include:

  • The EU: what’s in it for me?
  • A guide to your rights as an EU citizen: freedom to move and live in Europe
  • Speaking for Europe: languages in the European Union
  • Investing in our common future: the budget of the European Union
  • The EU in the world: the foreign policy of the European Union

You’ll also find our popular, up-to-date leaflet on travelling in Europe and one for job-seekers. 

 Feel free to take whatever you need (and ask for more if it’s empty!).

The Library also houses a European Documentation Centre (EDC) -  an extensive collection of publications and documents of the EU. Click here for more information.

More free EU information!

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The EU stand on Level 2 (next to the Information Desk) has just been restocked. Pop downstairs to pick up your free brochures and guides on:

- Travelling in Europe 2011-12

- Europe and you: a snapshot of EU achievements

- Combating climate change

- The European Union budget at a glance

- Finding a job in Europe: a guide for jobseekers

- Speaking for Europe: languages in the European Union

Please take whatever you need.

More guides coming soon!

The Library houses a European Documentation Centre (EDC) -  an extensive collection of publications and documents of the European Union. Click here for more information and who to contact for further details.

The 2011 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture

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The Neues Museum in Berlin is the winner of the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Award, the European Commission announced this week.

The building is a reconstruction, blending old and new, by the British architect Sir David Chipperfield. The original Neues Museum, designed by Friedrich August Stüler, was built in the mid-19th century. The building was severely damaged in the Second World War and reconstruction began in 2003, with the aim of restoring the site to its former glory.

Launched in 1987, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Award is presented every other year. The Prize is supported by the European Commission in the framework of its Culture Programme and by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation.

The winners were chosen from 343 submitted works in 33 European countries. Six works were shortlisted for the main award. The other finalists were: Bronks Youth Theatre (Brussels, Belgium); MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts (Rome, Italy); Concert House Danish Radio (Copenhagen, Denmark); Acropolis Museum (Athens, Greece) and Rehabilitation Centre Groot Klimmendaal (Arnhem, The Netherlands).

The award ceremony will take place on 20 June at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona.

To find out more about the award and the ceremony why not visit the Europa website here. The library has access to a wide variety of databases concerning the subject of architecture and civil engineering on Metalib. Why not have a browse?

Free EU leaflets now available!

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Anyone looking for free EU-related literature will be pleased to hear that leaflets and information sheets are now available from a designated area in the Library. Just pop down to the leaflet stand alongside the Information Desk on Level 2. A number of the slots have been stocked with leaflets and factsheets covering an array of EU topics including:

  • The European Union’s enlargement
  • The European Union’s budget
  • Road safety 2010: how is your country doing?
  • The European Disability Strategy 2010-20
  • Candidate and potential candidate countries

Just look out for the official EU emblem as displayed at the top of this post. Please feel free to take whatever you need.

Are you also aware that the Library houses a European Documentation Centre (EDC) -  an extensive collection of publications and documents of the European Union? Click here for more information and who to contact for further details.

Euro 2008

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Now that Euro 2008 has started, without any of the UK’s teams, there are loads of websites out there with information about the tournament.  The key one is naturally UEFA’s official Euro 2008 website, which has live video, replays, and all the latest news for fans.  The BBC has its own site, which also includes a blog and commentary from its presenters and journalists, as does ITV.  However, if you don’t like football or want to look beyond the match results and inevitable hype, there is a lot more to the event than what happens on the pitch, as you can see from the research that has been done on Euro 2004.

A search on the database SPORTdiscus for ‘Euro 2004′ finds 143 results with subjects including biography, strategy, statistics, reporters and reporting, management and interviews.  There are abstracts of articles about ‘Euro 2004 and football fashion’, ‘The importance of events in tourism:impacts of the UEFA-Euro 2004 on the accommodation industry in Algarve, Portugal’ and ‘An evaluation of the sponsorship of Euro 2004′.  A similar search on Communications Abstracts discovered two very different articles.  One looking at Greek nationalism and international recognition in Euro 2004 and another examining representations of Portugal and England in Euro 2004 newspaper coverage.

So, if you are not a sports fan, don’t forget that Euro 2008 is about a lot more than football, and if you do enjoy the game, make the most of the next few weeks!

 

IBSS – Easier to use

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The International Bibliography for Social Sciences (IBSS) has a new, enhanced search screen to make searching for journal articles, books and book chapters easier and more intuitive.  In the previous version, you had to include linking words, such as AND, to connect ideas but now it is more like Google and the Library catalogue and will link them automatically.  New features also include a thesaurus, which can help you to locate different keywords for similar topics, plus alerting tools, such as emailed table of contents alerts and RSS feeds.

If you haven’t ever used IBSS before and are doing a Social Science, Politics or Economics topic, it would be well worth trying it out.  It contains details of journal articles held by the top university libraries for Social Sciences in Europe, as well as books and book chapter records.  It includes details of journals, books and book chapters from 1951 onwards. Since the autumn of last year, it has also started to include book summaries to give even more detail about the contents of potentially useful material.  To link across from IBSS to Loughborough University Library’s print and electronic holdings, don’t forget to click on the SFX link in every record. 

If you want to have a look at IBSS, find it within Metalib.  You will need your Athens username and password to connect to IBSS from off-campus.

Lots to try!

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The Library has instigated a number of database trials for the next few weeks.  So now is your chance to try out Oxford Reference Online, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online; the Complete Cambridge Companions Online and a number of Social Science online encyclopaedias via Gale Virtual Reference (International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Encyclopedia of Race and Racism and Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender). 

To access the Oxford and Cambridge trials, use the links above or go to the Trials category on Metalib and let us know your views.  The Cambridge trial lasts until the 28th February and the Oxford ones until 8th March.  You will need to be on-campus to view these.  To access the Gale trial go to:  http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/loughuni 
and select the new titles from the Advanced Search’s ‘Publication Title’ option .  If you are accessing Gale off-campus, you will need your Athens username and password.  The Gale trial lasts until 11th March.

Please let us know your views via the ‘Comments’ .  And, thinking of a previous post, could any of them replace Wikipedia for you?