The Library is happy to join the activities organised at the Institute for Sustainability Week from April 1 to 5. To celebrate the event, an exhibition is taking place in the Davis Lounge, where a selection of documents on the Environment will be exposed.
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Of E-books, Licences, DRM and Downloads
Proquest’s Ebook Central platform offers a large number of books for our community, but they’re not the easiest to use. Here’s a brief summary of how you can download e-books from this platform, and how to mitigate some of the most painful limitations of single-user (non-downloadable) titles.
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Before building a small game collection, the Library also experimented with graphic novels. Here’s a short history and some details on what it’s all about.
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A look at Gender in the Library
The Gender Centre of the Institute is currently holding its conference “Bubbling up. Solidarities, Feminisms and Social Reproduction“. To celebrate this event, the Library set up a small exhibition in the Davis Lounge to present its rich Gender collection.
The Boris Souvarine Collection, 1917-2017
The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom-Davis Library holds a large number of documents collected by Boris Souvarine over his life. In this post, Svetlana Yakimovich tells you what you need to know about him and what the Souvarine collection contains.
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