theguardian is offering its online digital Guardian service for free until Monday 26 September. It normally costs £10 per month. You can read the whole issue online every day. Enjoy!
theguardian has posted four video interviews on its change in format , including one with designer Mark Porter [thanks to the commenter at newsdesigner.com].
Also, it has reactions to the new format Guardian from rivals, peers and advertisers.
Finally, there is the new editors’ weblog which, last night, gave a blow-by-blow account of producing the first Berliner issue. You can add comments - such as what you think about the new format. Or email whatdoyouthink@guardian.co.uk.
That’s all about theguardian for now. theguardian is available on weekdays in the library during full term - plus one other quality newspaper (either The Daily Telegraph or The Independent).
The College website recently appeared in a new format. Unfortunately, it has a tedious ‘enter here’ front page (not so good - but at least it is not some ‘Flash’-based ‘intro’). Better to use this URL to get straight in. Also, again unfortunately, the website designers changed the URL of the library web page with no prior warning and no redirection - not web-friendly standard practice, surely? The library is now even more securely hidden away under ‘Teaching’ at http://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/teaching/library/index.html (the ‘old’ web address still does not work at time of writing). Some of the text on our web page has still not been updated either - but we hope to have this done before next week when students are starting to return for the new academic year. On the positive side, at least they’ve got rid of the awful dark blue background.
Coincidentally, the University Library (UL) site has also had a change of format. Now this is definitely an improvement. There is even a more obvious link from the front page (under ‘Digital Library’) to DSpace@Cambridge - the university’s institutional repository where research and other material produced by University staff can be archived - mostly in ‘open access’ form so that anyone with internet can access it.
The way University of Cambridge libraries are arranged can be confusing at first. The UL front page includes this useful introduction:
“Welcome to the website of Cambridge University Library. As well as being the main library for the University we are one of six legal deposit libraries in the British Isles [like the British Library which means, incidentally, that UL should be given a copy of every item that is published]. Our main mission is to deliver world-class library and information services to meet the needs of the local, national and international scholarly community.
“The libraries in the University are organised in a tripartite system - [1] University Library and its Dependent Libraries, [2] Departmental and Faculty Libraries, and [3] College Libraries [that’s us]. Information about libraries in the University and Affiliated Institutions can be found at libraries@cambridge.”
The Cambridge University Library will be closed for Annual Inspection from Friday 16th September until Friday 23rd September.
