Christmas Closing Hours

The library will be shutting for Christmas at 6pm on Friday 21^st December and opening at 9.30am on January 2^nd. On the plus side it means you can get over a week on the new books! Something to ponder while we’re away ... 

Wasting time with Zeus and Odysseus

At last! A use for technology we can all appreciate here or a more active one here 

Open Acces Journals from Pauly-Wissowa

10,000 articles now available on online open access. Not that the library feels threatened or anything... 

http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/10000-articles-now-in-open-access-pauly.html

 

p.s. they won’t smell the same as real books!

Early Closing for Foundation Day

Remember we're closing early tomorrow at 1.45 pm owing to the Foundation Day event taking place at Senate House. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Ancient Languages for people with Dyslexia

Teaching Latin to students who have dyslexia. An excellent aid for those who truly do want to make Classics accessible to all:

http://www.canepress.org/2012/10/teaching-latin-to-students-who-have-dyslexia/

and a related link to an article regarding Greek:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9345.2006.00444.x/abstract

Scanning the future...

Staff of our library and the IHR are currently embarking on a quest to replace the old photocopiers with new machines that do both colour copying and also scanning.  We’ll keep you updated of any developments but fingers crossed that scanning will be available in the next year!