Matthew D’Ancona has been picked from The Sunday Telegraph to be the new editor of The Spectator.
Andrew Neill, The Spectator’s chief executive, and Aidan Barclay, the chairman of the magazine’s owner Press Holdings, are believed to have chosen D’Ancona ahead of Scotland on Sunday editor Iain Martin and The Economist’s US editor John Micklethwait.
Neill described D’Ancona as one of Britain’s foremost political commentators, and said: “He combines the requisite political gravitas and insight with the wit and originality that the post requires.”
The Spectator’s average weekly sale is 68,415 copies, of which 51,274 are in the UK and Ireland (ABC Jul-Dec 2005).
Also, only a few days later, it has been announced that Bill Emmott, editor-in-chief of The Economist, is to step down from the role after 13 years to focus on writing books.
Emmott has been with The Economist for 26 years in total, working his way up from Brussels correspondent in 1980, becoming financial editor in 1986 then business affairs editor in 1989. He took on his current job in March 1993.
He will stay on at the magazine until a new editor is found, but this could be as soon as March 21, according to reports. The appointment will be approved by four trustees of the Economist Group board. Contenders are likely to include: Emma Duncan, who is deputy editor; John Micklethwait, US editor; and Matthew Bishop, American business editor.
The Economist’s average weekly sale is 514,124 copies per week worldwide excluding the Americas of which 166,286 are in UK and Ireland (ABC Jul-Dec 2005).
The Library subscribes to these magazines. Full online access to both is available using our passwords (search for the titles in our catalogue).
From Straight Dope is an interesting article on Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) - which is used by this library - and also Library of Congress (LC) classification.
Quote:
“First, as you acknowledge, it’s a standard. The DDC is by far the most widely used method of organizing books in the U.S, and indeed in the world; it or its offshoot the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is used in over 130 countries. Somewhere around 95% of all school libraries and public libraries in the U.S. use DDC. Its leading competitor is the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) system which, in contrast, tends to be used by government and academic libraries (that is, colleges and universities). Only 25% of colleges and universities use Dewey Decimal Classification, and around 20% of specialized libraries do.
“Second, and equally important, DDC continues to serve libraries well after more than a century of use, despite the enormous expansion in knowledge during that time. To understand why this is so requires some understanding of DDC’s history, so we’ll start with its inventor, Melvil Dewey.”
The January 2006 issue of Computing Service Newsletter has been published.
It includes an article on Raven passwords and, because of what they allow access to, the importance of keeping them secret. For example, your Raven password allows access to your supervision reports, examination marks, home address etc. and allows alteration of your examination entries or your personal information in the University Directory. Raven passwords also allow access to a number of online databases hosted by the University. Information about Raven passwords is at http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/docs/faq/n5.html.
There is also a reminder that NetStorage is now generally available. NetStorage enables easy access to your personal PWF (Public Workstation Facility) filespace from anywhere on the Internet (in particular, from student rooms).
Also an item about the Computing Service planning to provide a Managed Wiki Service, expected to be available in the first quarter of 2006. A Wiki allows users to create and edit shared web pages using a web browser - for example see Wikipedia, a massive online encyclopedia which anyone can easily edit and contribute to.
You can download a PDF version of the complete newsletter and we have a copy of it in the library for reference.
The College has subscribed to 3 simultaneous logins to the Naxos Music Library since October 2005. Naxos Music Library is a large web based music listening service owned by the Naxos classical record label. It provides access to over 130,000 tracks from 8,800 CDs and almost 7,000 composers which comprise the entire Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues, plus other licensed independent labels [figures as at 3 November 2005]. You can listen to whole CDs or individual tracks from the complete Naxos and Marco Polo (less well known classical music worldwide) catalogues encompassing classical, jazz, blues, world, folk, and Chinese music.
Naxos Music Library is available at all times, round the clock. The music is streamed in Microsoft WMA 9.0 format at near-CD quality (64Kbps - broadband or DSL/ISDN required) or FM quality (20Kbps - suitable for a dial-up connection). You can select works by composer, artist, period, year of composition, instrument or genre. Playlists can also be easily created for educational use, or for hours of continuous enjoyment. Whilst listening, you can read information about the works (the ’sleevenotes’), artists and composers. Music students with personal computers can ask to be put on the Library’s list of approved IP addresses so that they can connect to the service from their own rooms.
It is not possible to download or burn to CD any music on Naxos Music Library.
Please remember to log out after using the service, as there is a maximum of three simultaneous users.
Download a copy of the Naxos Music Library brochure (PDF, 3MB)
