The Wolfson Pop-up Library will be starting tomorrow and running every Thursday in term-time from 12.30pm – 1.30pm in the Wolfson cafe.
Come and ask your friendly neighbourhood Academic Librarian Becky Laing any engineering, science and mathematics questions you may have. She also knows lots about classic television series and knitting. What better way to spend a lunch time!
If you’ve been following events at the Paris Climate Conference this week and have an interest – either academically or personally – in climate change or just the state of the weather, Librarian Heather Dawson from the London School of Economics has compiled a very useful list of freely available online resources on her research blog, which you can find via this link:
http://alissresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/paris-climateb-change-conference.html
They range from media outlets to governmental and international resources, as well as links to academic research and analysis. Please note that some of the links apply to resources that are only available through the LSE.
Image by Alan Grinberg, reproduced under CC License from Flickr.
This week is World Space Week, the annual celebration of all things astronautical and cosmic.
This year’s theme is particularly suitable – discovery, which highlights the great era of deep space discovery that we are in. We have never learnt as much of the universe we live in as in the last decade. Space telescopes, deep space probes and several interplanetary satellites and landers have shown us the magic, wonders and opportunities of new worlds. Space is all about discovery!
Launched specifically on 4th October by the UN General Assembly to mark the successful launch of Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, in 1957, and the signing of the ‘Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies’ on October 10 1967, World Space Week has been held every year since 1999, and seeks primarily to educate people about the positives of space exploration and encourage better public understanding and support for space programmes.
We hold a large number of books about satellite communications & navigation among our collection, along with a good selection of books about space & space exploration in general. We also have access to the National Geophysical Data Centre database, which provides the lastest satellite geophysical data from the Sun to the Earth and Earth’s sea floor and solid earth environment, including Earth observations from space, and the NASA Scientific & Technical Information database, which includes up-to-date information about NASA’s satellite projects.
To find out more about the programme, visit the World Space Week website here:
This Friday is the start of British Science Week, and to mark the occasion the University is hosting a special series of events across town and campus.
The week will culminate with a Community Fun Day on Saturday 21st March, where you can enjoy practical demonstrations of exciting engineering, as well as hands on experiments for budding scientists.
From our beginnings as a technical institute, Loughborough University has established a reputation for technological innovation and scientific endeavour, and our research is helping to shape the future.
British Science Week (BSW) is a ten-day programme of science, technology, engineering and maths events and activities across the UK for people of all ages. To find out more, visit the BSW homepage here:
As today is World Mental Health Day, and with the weather turning nasty and the nights drawing in, what better time to remind you about our range of Books on Prescription and Mood Boosting books up among the Leisure Reading section on Level 4 to help give you a bit of a boost for the start of term.
Reading Well Books on Prescription is a scheme providing self-help reading based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for adults for a range of common mental health conditions including anxiety and depression. These titles can now be accessed from the University Library. Reference copies of most of the books in the scheme are located in the Leisure Reading Collection on Level 4. If you’d prefer to borrow a copy, multiple loanable copies are available from Leicestershire Public Libraries. Loughborough’s public library is located on Granby Street in the centre of town, right next to the park.
Alongside the Books on Prescription titles sit the aptly-named Reading Well Mood-Boosting books, an intriguing range of uplifting novels, non-fiction and poetry. The Mood-Boosting titles have all been recommended nationally by readers and reading groups.
World Mental Health Day is a day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy, first celebrated in 1992. It’s an initiative run by the World Federation for Mental Health, a global mental health organization with members and contacts in more than 150 countries. Every year it highlights a particular mental health theme, with this year’s theme being “Living with Schizophrenia”.
To find out more, visit the World Mental Health Day site here:
http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/world-mental-health-day/
It’s World Space Week, the theme of which this year looks at the importance of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and its importance to modern life on Earth.
Imagine a world without navigation satellites to guide planes, ships and cars and not to forget: us with our location based mobile phone applications! And navigation satellites not just accurately pinpoint our position on the planet, it also provides time signals to keep clocks in sync, which is critically important for global trading and many other time critical sectors.
Launched specifically on 4th October by the UN General Assembly to mark the successful launch of Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, in 1957, and the signing of the ‘Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies’ on October 10 1967, World Space Week has been held every year since 1999, and seeks primarily to educate people about the positives of space exploration and encourage better public understanding and support for space programmes.
We hold a large number of books about satellite communications & navigation among our collection, along with a good selection of books about space and space exploration in general. We also have access to the National Geophysical Data Center database, which provides the lastest satellite geophysical data from the Sun to the Earth and Earth’s sea floor and solid earth environment, including Earth observations from space, and the NASA Scientific & Technical Information database, which includes up-to-date information about NASA’s satellite projects.
To find out more about the programme, visit the World Space Week website here:
The British Science Association launch their annual festival in Birmingham next month, featuring over 250 interactive events, exhibitions and displays aimed at all ages.
Each September the British Science Festival transforms a different UK city into a vibrant celebration of science, engineering and technology. This year’s Festival is taking place in partnership with the University of Birmingham, and runs from Saturday 6th – Thursday 11th September.
Many of the events are free but booking is necessary as space is limited. To book your places, and to see what is going on at the Festival, visit their website here:
http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/british-science-festival
Professor Maryam Mirzakhani of the Stanford University, California, yesterday made history by becoming the first female mathematician to win the prestigious Fields Medal, the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
The prize, founded by Canadian mathematician John Fields in 1936 and awarded every four years at a ceremony hosted by the International Mathematical Union, was awarded to four mathematicians in total, with Professor Mirzakhani winning the top prize for her work in complex geometry. Professor Martin Hairer, from the UK’s University of Warwick, also received a medal for his study of partial differential equations.
We have a vast amount of books and journals dedicated to the subject of mathematics, located downstairs among our collection on Level 1. We also have a wide variety of databases on the subject, including MathWorld, an interactive mathematical encyclopedia, and PlanetMath, a virtual community dedicated to help make mathematical knowledge more accessible. Why not have a browse?
Image by Robert Scarth, reproduced under CC License from Flickr.
Radar, the University Arts program, is beginning a series of workshops next Monday which will develop a dialogue around the changes in weather and climate that we are now seeing.
If you are a resident of Loughborough or a student or staff member at the university and have experienced the way that the climate has affected the environment, the National Forest, your garden, allotment, farm or even just the trees on the streets then we would be very interested in working with you to see how we can mark and record these changes. The sessions will include opportunities to work with leading climate scientists and an excursion to the university woodlands.
The workshops will be held on the second Monday of every month between May to September 2014 (12th May, 9th June, 14th July, 11th August & 8th September) in the Loughborough University Arts Project Space in the Edward Barnsley Building, from 5.30-7.30pm.
You can book your place for the May workshop here and the June one here.
Next Wednesday afternoon (14th May) in the Cope Auditorium at 3pm Eden Flix is hosting a free showing of Academy Award nominated director William Gazecki’s acclaimed 2006 documentary Future By Design.
Future By Design shares the life and far-reaching vision of Jacque Fresco, considered by many to be a modern day Da Vinci. Peer to Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Jacque is a self-taught futurist who describes himself most often as a “generalist” or multi-disciplinarian – a student of many inter-related fields.
Eden Flix are a series of highly acclaimed, thought-provoking and inspirational documentaries on issues related to engineering, design and social consciousness.
All staff and students at Loughborough are freely welcome to attend, though booking is necessary. To do that, follow this link.
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