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Looking for Help with Your MSc Project?

Tackling your summer projects can be daunting. The library is here to support you every step of the way.  We currently have a new book display in the Reading Room at Keppel Street, focusing on several resources which can help you complete your Master’s dissertation with confidence.

Library…

Access to JSTOR archival journal collections

Readers now have access to the following JSTOR archive collections:

Arts & Sciences IArts & Sciences IIArts & Sciences VIArts & Sciences VIIArts & Sciences XLife Sciences

These collections provide readers with full-text articles from nearly 900 journal titles. The Life Sciences collection is discipline-specific and focuses on…

Barnard 3.0 – Updating the library collection: a look at the pamphlets

With the update to the Barnard Classification Scheme completed, thousands of physical items in the library collection have had classmarks changed. Updating items on the records management system and the physical items in the main collection, the basement and the pamphlet collection in the gallery. Rather the large and daunting…

Decolonial practice for library collections, part 2

The Library uses the Barnard Classification Scheme to organise print resources into subject-related categories.  Cyril Barnard was the School’s first professional librarian, and he wrote his A classification for medical and veterinary libraries in 1936, amended in 1955.  There was an urgent need to update the…

Decolonial practice for library collections, part 1

University library collections support the teaching and research demands placed by the organisation in which they are embedded.  Not only are resources in collections dominated by thought and knowledge creation of the global north, but several library practices contribute to this colonial bias. The nature of library collections has…