Andrea Levy has won the 2004 Whitbread Book Awards with her fourth novel, Small Islands. The book is based around her parents’ experience of moving from Jamaica to post-war England ‘to start a better life’. The announcement was made yesterday evening (Tuesday 25 January) at an awards ceremony held at The Brewery in Central London.
From the complete shortlist for the Whitbread prize, a winner is picked from each of five categories: novel, first novel, biography, poetry, and children’s. An overall winner is then selected from the five category winners. The Whitbread Book Awards website offers previous shortlists and winners stretching back to 1971.
Small Islands has already won the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction, which is open only to women.
News from Patricia Killiard (Head of Electronic Services and Systems at Cambridge University Library):
The University Library has held the Index Islamicus on CD-Rom for a number of years, having housed the Islamic Bibliography Unit which was responsible for its creation and maintenance. The Index Islamicus is now available online university-wide through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts or go to the Electronic Resources front page and search for ‘Index Islamicus’.
No passwords are required within the University [cam.ac.uk] domain but Athens passwords are required for off-campus access [note: Athens passwords can be obtained from the Library enquiry desk].
Also today, 24 January, all Cambridge Scientific Abstracts databases migrated to the new CSA Illumina interface.
We are rather proud of our revised and expanded Library User Guide and its new progeny: the Online Resource Guide.
We have split the Library Guide into two separate documents, as it now runs to over 50 pages in total! But don’t let that put you off. We GUARANTEE you will learn at least one new thing out of each Guide. At last: the answers to the questions it is now too late in the year to ask without ridicule! Plus a Guide which gently introduces you to the world of online resources, including the University’s excellent subscribed resources (4,500+ academic journals online for starters!) and loads of useful stuff freely available on the web.
We know you must be dying to get your hands on these documents. Just click on the blue buttons above, also available on our web page. You will need the free Adobe Reader. Adobe has just released version 7. Use the minimal download link here.
