Graduation 2022 Friday 8th July

Graduation in the Great Hall

Graduation ceremony

Congratulations to the following students who graduate today!
You can read their theses in the Aberystwyth Research Portal by clicking on the links

English and Creative Writing

Morgan Davies ‘The Burning Bracken: A Novel with Accompanying Critical Commentary’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/3cf9e413-70a7-44cd-95c5-af6ec91b2d42

Elizabeth Godwin ‘Poetry and the Architecture of Imagination’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/0531b4b8-49b0-4ce5-95a6-3e95c62667f1

Robert Jones ‘Lain Beside Gold’ Narrative, Metaphor and Energy in Freud and Conan Doyle’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/1d588151-6162-4d9a-a3c7-107879f21d5c

George Sandifer-Smith ‘The Stone Bell (Creative Writing Project) & Accompanying Critical Commentary: Temporality, Place & Memory’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/cca01ed0-4db9-4374-9f9c-8b72cfd809d0

International Politics

Abigail Blyth ‘The British Intelligence Services in the public domain’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/603b6051-5b23-45a3-9194-abeb027e0dd8

Karijn van den Berg ‘Making sense of personal environmental action: A relational reframing through the study of activists’ experiences’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/58323949-e25b-46cf-b69d-bf1e3c4fd0be

Theatre, Film and Television Studies

Paul Jones ‘Heterotopic Frictions: Visually Problematising Identity, Territory and Language from an Anglo-Welsh Perspective’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/5c7b7515-0230-4723-9084-7208804ac4b6

Jamie Terrill ‘An Investigation of Rural Welsh Cinemas: Their Histories, Memories and Communities’ http://hdl.handle.net/2160/7a6d3f43-ea8c-4478-b485-34b5bcd81691

Exciting news for Information Studies students!

30 May 2022 WordPress User [aiv] Uncategorised Leave a comment

We’ve been subscribing to a great resource affectionately known as ‘LISA’ for many years. This resource has been invaluable to Information Studies students and staff for many years.
LISA (Library & Information Science Abstracts) helps to focus searching for international scholarly literature on library and information science. However, as suggested by the name it is an abstract service only.
We are really pleased to announce that we now have access to the ‘Library & Information Science Collection”. This new collection now searches our much loved LISA, as well as the Library Science Full Text Database.
In summary we now have over 300 full text journal titles included when you search the ‘Library & Information Science Collection’.

Information Studies LibGuide

LISA database screenshot

From Resources to referencing

7 April 2022 WordPress User [glr9] Information Skills, Teaching Leave a comment

A book and notepad Assignments: from Resources to Referencing has been prepared by the Subject Librarians at the University to develop key information literacy skills essential for academic study – from finding high quality academic materials to citing resources correctly in your assignments. The module is available to all students on Blackboard.

The module currently contains three sections:

Library and IT Induction
• Provides everything you need to know about getting started with library services and collections.
• A quiz to practice using library resources.

Referencing and Plagiarism Awareness
• Helps you understand the importance of accurate referencing; how to create accurate citations and references; how to manage your citations using referencing software tools and how to interpret your Turnitin Similarity Report.
• This guide includes a quiz which allows you to practice the skills you have learned using the specific referencing style specified by your department

News & Media Literacy
• This guide helps develop critical skills in evaluating the information we consume online. You will learn how to define key concepts such as free speech, misinformation, disinformation and censorship; understand concepts of selection and bias in the media and how to spot fake news.
• This guide includes a quiz which allows you to test the knowledge you have gained.

Further guides and quizzes will be added to the module in future.
If you require guidance in using the module, have any questions on using library collections and services or have any feedback, please contact: librarians@aber.ac.uk / 01970 621896

BBC Historic Archive now available through Box of Broadcasts.

17 March 202217 March 2022 WordPress User [sif4] Learning, Research, Teaching Leave a comment

An old-time television set If you are anything like me then you are probably rejoicing in the fact that the BBC’s archive of historic radio and television programmes is being made available through Box of Broadcasts.

I for one can’t wait to watch post-apocalyptic fun-fest Z for Zachariah (broadcast in 1984 as part of the Play for Today strand). If that’s not your thing, how about Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs talking about Jack Kerouac on Arena in 1988 ? Not for you? Then maybe an episode of Horizon from 1980 exploring how voice-controlled word processors are set to revolutionise the office). Or how about a personal tour of Stratford upon Avon in the company of Welsh playwright Huw Lloyd Edwards in Arall Fyd from 1972?

Of course this is the BBC so there is so much more: cultural highlights (BBC Television Shakespeare); landmark light entertainment (Multi-Coloured Swap Shop – that’s my childhood, right there!) There are flagship news shows (Newsnight) and historic accounts of landmark social and cultural events (Yesterday’s Witness). It all adds up to a resource of unparalleled quality and depth.

Box of Broadcasts have put together some useful information on how to access the historic content in the archive, but if you get stuck with anything please don’t hesitate to contact your subject librarian for help.

Here are some other useful links for finding your way around Box of Broadcasts:

Here are some useful links for teaching staff: