Books added to the Library by students in SAPL (Semester One 2023/24)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester One, academic year 2023/2024 we successfully processed 55 requests in SAPL totalling just over £3800.

5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume V : Proceedings of the International Conference on Disaster Management, November 24-27, 2021, New Delhi, India
Asian Revitalization: Adaptive Reuse in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore
Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide, 3rd Edition
Beyond Foucault New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon
Boundaries 13 Tiny Houses Self-built – Off the Grid
Building with Paper: The Materiality of Renaissance Architectural Drawings: 2
Citizens of no place
Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below
Colloquial Swahili
Compassionate Cities: public health and end-of-life care
Concrete Concept: Brutalist Buildings Around the World
Concrete Hong Kong: Build Your Own Modernist Metropolis
Crack in the wall : life and death in Kowloon walled city
Deserts Are Not Empty
Design For More-Than-Human Futures Towards Post-Anthropocentric Worlding
Designed Landscapes: 37 Key Project
Designing Reform: Architecture in the People’s Republic of China, 1970–1992
Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities Sustenance and Sustainability
Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age
Documenta11: Platform4: Under Siege: Four African Cities: Freetown, Johannesburg, Lagos, Kinshasa
Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities
Drawing on the Inside: Kowloon Walled City 1985
Environmental Psychology and Human Well-Being: Effects of Built and Natural Settings
Ethics and Organizational Practice Questioning the Moral Foundations of Management
Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society
Historical Muscat : an Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer.
Imperial Ascent: Mountaineering, Masculinity, and Empire
Iran Encountering Globalization: Problems and Prospects
Longing for the Future: Mal D’Afrique and Afro-Optimism in Perspectives on Somalia (Routledge Studies in Modern History)
Medieval modern : art out of time
Moderns abroad: Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism
Mogadishu through the Eyes of an Architect
Mogadishu: Lost Moderns
Multimodal Conversation Analysis and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis A Methodological Framework for Researching Translanguaging in Multilingual Classrooms
New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Planning in a Failing State: Reforming Spatial Governance in England
Railway
Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and Its Birds
Red Mars: Kim Stanley Robinson
Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London
Resilient and Sustainable Cities Research, Policy and Practice
RIBA Job Book / 10th
Sir Titus Salt and Sons – A Farming Legacy
Space Architecture: The New Frontier for Design Research (Architectural Design)
Studies in Organic: Kengo Kuma and Associates
Sustainability Indicators: Measuring the Immeasurable?
Sustainable Cities: Local Solutions in the Global South
The Epic of Mount Everest
The Everest Effect: Nature, Culture, Ideology
The Extraordinary Amazing Incredible Unbelievable Walled City of Kowloon
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
The making of modern Ethiopia: 1896–1974
The people’s property? power, politics, and the public
Wearable Sensors (Second Edition): Fundamentals, Implementation and Applications

Books added to the Library by students in SAPL (Semester Three 2022/23)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Three, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 12 requests in SAPL totalling just over £916.

Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design: Technologies, Implementation, and Impacts
Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide
Cliff Railways, Lifts and Funiculars
Good Practice Guide: Making Successful Planning Applications
Heidegger and the Thinking of Place: Explorations in the Topology of Being
Homo Prospectus
Multiple Regression and Beyond An Introduction to Multiple Regression and Structural Equation Modeling
Public Space in Metropolitan Barcelona: Interventions and Conversations
Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology: Integrating Diversity With Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods FIFTH EDITION
Sagrada Familia: Behind the Scaffolding
The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space
Woods go urban – Three Landscape Laboratories in Scandinavia

Books added to the Library by students in ECLS (Semester Three 2022/23)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Three, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 12 requests in ECLS totalling just over £748

Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual
Best Practices in Writing Instruction
Essentials of Critical-constructivist Grounded Theory Research
Hegde’s Pocket Guide to Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology
How to create Autonomous Learners
Introducing Global Englishes
Linguistic Ethnography Interdisciplinary Explorations
Psychology of Gender
Scaffolding the Academic Success of Adolescent English Language Learners: A Pedagogy of Promise
School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators And Improving Schools
The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for learning
Working with Emergent Language

Books added to the Library by students in GPS (Semester Three 2022/23)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Three, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 12 requests in GPS totalling just over £1293

ACCA Strategic Business Leader (SBL) Study Text
Building a Normative Order in the South China Sea: Evolving Disputes, Expanding Options
Diversity and Inclusion in Environmentalism
Geopolitics and International Relations
Heterarchy in World Politics
Investing in Natural Capital: The Ecological Economics Approach to Sustainability
Managing Crisis
New Economies for Sustainability: Limits and Potentials for Possible Futures
Our Psychiatric Future: the politics of mental health
Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War
The Aesthetics of the Oppressed
We have never been middle-class

Books added to the Library by students in NUBS (Semester Three 2022/23)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Three, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 10 requests in NUBS totalling just over £1293

Culture Place and Health: Critical Geographies
Encyclopedia of Japanese Business and Management.
Fundraising and Institutional Advancement: Theory, Practice, and New Paradigms
Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
International Handbook of Diversity Management at Work. Country Perspectives on Diversity and Equal Treatment
Japanese Management Tradition and Transition
Loved : how to rethink marketing for tech products
Philanthropy in Education: Diverse Perspectives and Global Trends
Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education

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New Resource Trial: The Social History Archive

The Library is currently running a short trial to The Social History Archive.

The Social History Archive logo with illustrations of papers.
The Social History Archive logo. ©Findmypast.

The Social History Archive provides access to primary source material, from unique newspapers to census returns, crime reports and migration records. This platform is operated by FindMyPast and includes newspapers from the British Newspaper Archive.

The platform may be accessed here by selecting “Newcastle University” from the drop down menu. You will then be prompted to login using your Newcastle University credentials.

The platform has a number of search and browse functions. You can “Search all Records” or create an advanced search from the homepage (called the dashboard), however the “Search” drop-down menu provides options to search by record type, including newspapers and publications. If you need any assistance using the platform then please do not hesitate to get in touch.

The trial runs until Tuesday 5th March 2024. We are keen to hear any feedback on this resource – please contact us by commenting below or by emailing your Liaison Librarian (libliaison@newcastle.ac.uk).

Resource Trial: Siren Films

The library will be trialling the Siren Films collection from Thursday 15th February. The collection was started by a animal behaviourist research who started her work in the North East of England. The creators of this platform specialise in capturing different aspects of child development over time. The films in this collection aim to support academics, professionals, therapists, nursery staff and anyone who aspires to help children lead happy lives and reach their full potential. This is an ideal resource for any member of staff or student who is studying or researching child development or to support professional practitioners.

The collection of over 500 films includes the following categories:

  • Child development
  • Effective learning
  • Environment and materials
  • Play
  • Teaching and support
  • Theories and approaches

To find out more, see the introductory videos about Siren Films here.

To access the collection both on and off campus follow this link here via our catalogue, Library Search and authenticate using your Newcastle University ID and password

The trial ends on 14th April 2024 To help us evaluate it, please email us your feedback, or leave a reply on this blog.

Resource Trial a + t Architecture Online Library

We are trialling the a + t Online Library from 29th January. The trial will give us access to:

  • a+t magazine from issue 29 (to view a demo of the platform follow the link here)
  • a+t e-books (to view a demo follow the link here)
  • Online packs of cards, including urban floor plans and urban blocks (to view a demo follow the link here)
  • a+t Index

To access the collection both on and off campus follow the link here via our catalogue, Library Search and authenticate using your Newcastle University ID and password

The trial ends on 29th February 2024 To help us evaluate it, please email us your feedback, or leave a reply on this blog.

New Resource Trial: Gale Primary Sources – Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)

Gale Primary Sources Nineteenth Century Collections Online logo
Gale Primary Sources Nineteenth Century Collections Online logo

The Library is pleased to confirm that we are currently hosting a trial to Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO), a Gale Primary Sources resource.

NCCO is the result of partnerships between Gale and almost one hundred libraries to preserve and make digitally available content for academic research. NCCO unites multiple, distinct archives into a single resource of over one hundred types of primary source documents; it consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages.

The NCCO platform comprises 12 thematic collections, including:

  • Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
  • British Politics and Society
  • British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture
  • Children’s Literature and Childhood
  •  European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790–1840 
  • Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture
  • Maps and Travel Literature 
  • Photography
  • Religion, Reform, and Society 
  • Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I 
  • Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
  • Women and Transnational Networks 

The following video provides more information on one of the collections, as an example: British Politics and Society.

Newcastle University staff and students may login to the platform here.

The trial is live until Thursday 29th February 2024. If you need any support or assistance in using the platform them please do not hesitate to get in touch.

We are very keen to hear your feedback on this resource, so please do let us know by commenting below or by contacting us at libliaison@newcastle.ac.uk.

Policy Commons

After a successful trial in October 2023, we are delighted we have managed to secure a subscription to Policy Commons. We received some great feedback from academics about how the platform would fit in with teaching and learning in Schools including :

“This is an absolute treasure, especially for my research. I am also sure it will be an invaluable teaching resource for the environmental law module starting next semester.”

“There are huge amounts of so-called ‘grey’ policy literature that students working and being taught policy-oriented skills and modules cannot access because it is fragmented, hosted by various institutions and the organisations which commissioned such reports. Policy Commons makes the universe of policy-relevant literature, which is often the cutting edge of a field and more up-to-date than academic literature, accessible to students through just one easily searchable source. This is a highly recommended resource, which improves student skills, research and their written work”.

So if you aren’t familiar already, the database is one resource to locate publications from policy experts, NGO’s and think tanks. Publications include :
-The Council of Europe
-Environmental Law Institute
-European Parliamentary Research Service
-Center for Security Studies
-OECD
-World Bank Group
-United Nations
-International Institute for Environment and Development

This short video from Policy Commons tells you a little bit more

To access Policy Commons follow this link via Library Search