Start Up Lounge resources

Have you been to the the Start Up Lounge?
If you are interested in starting up your own business, big or small, pop over and have a look at what they have to offer.

This week the Information Store has a display of books, DVDs and eBooks that can help on the path to your first million!

What sort of business would you start up?

Day 5 - Slightly scary library convert

Caution - clip contains swearing:

And a more gentle poem to finish the week:

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Going to the Library by Jessy Randall In the library there are pathways you follow to find out what you want to know -- imagine -- somewhere in all these books or on the face of the computer or in parentheses at the back of a magazine, there is the perfect sentence, the answer to your question, the words all around you like the tornado in the Wizard of Oz never go home Dorothy -- Dorothy, never land -- language can be your bed, the beautiful wonder of all possible poems.

We hope that we have given you renewed (pardon the pun) interest in the world of libraries. Keep borrowing!

Day 4 - Thrills at the library Christmas party

See what librarians get up to in their spare time:

And today's poem:

Because of Libraries We Can Say These Things

by Naomi Shihab Nye

She is holding the book close to her body,
carrying it home on the cracked sidewalk,
down the tangled hill.
If a dog runs at her again, she will use the book as a shield.

She looked hard among the long lines
of books to find this one.
When they start talking about money,
when the day contains such long and hot places,
she will go inside.
An orange bed is waiting.
Story without corners.
She will have two families.
They will eat at different hours.

She is carrying a book past the fire station
and the five and dime.

What this town has not given her
the book will provide; a sheep,
a wilderness of new solutions.
The book has already lived through its troubles.
The book has a calm cover, a straight spine.

When the step returns to itself,
as the best place for sitting,
and the old men up and down the street
are latching their clippers,

she will not be alone.
She will have a book to open
and open and open.
Her life starts here.

Day 3 - Newfandangled library technology

Struggling with ebooks? Spare a thought for this monk:

And if you are having similar problems with eBooks, come in and see us in the Information Store, they are really quite easy to open when you know how. We have 3,000+ just waiting for you to explore.

And today's poem, by Emily Dickinson:

IN A LIBRARY

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think,

His venerable hand to take,
And warming in our own,
A passage back, or two, to make
To times when he was young.

His quaint opinions to inspect,
His knowledge to unfold
On what concerns our mutual mind,
The literature of old;

What interested scholars most,
What competitions ran
When Plato was a certainty.
And Sophocles a man;

When Sappho was a living girl,
And Beatrice wore
The gown that Dante deified.
Facts, centuries before,

He traverses familiar,
As one should come to town
And tell you all your dreams were true;
He lived where dreams were sown.

His presence is enchantment,
You beg him not to go;
Old volumes shake their vellum heads
And tantalize, just so.

Day 2 - Celebrating libaries with Cookie Monster

Another personal favourite of mine - Cookie Monster visits the library.

Scroll down for the acrostic poem of the day.

Large are these houses where one find,
Industries of the human mind:
Bound and amassed in paper banks,
Rough, smooth and some of highest ranks;
And there are stored the treasures old,
Rare, rare and precious fruits of gold:
Indited by the quills of men,
Einstein and Keats, and of women
Sylvia Plath and Dickinson

(Anonymous)

Love in the Library

Our Love Libraries display is flourishing with ♥.

Come and add yours to share the love!

Day 1 - Librarians go Gaga

This Saturday is National Libraries Day, devoted to all types of libraries, library users, staff and supporters across the UK.

Help us celebrate all week by adding a heart shaped post-it note to our display, saying why you love libraries.

Alternatively, add an online post-it note at http://linoit.com/users/astraker/canvases/Love%20Libraries

Each day this week I will be adding a poem and a YouTube clip about libraries, just for fun, starting with my personal favourite...

My Library

By Varda One

It's only a room with shelves and books,
but it's far more magical than it looks

It's a jet on which I soar
to lands that exist no more.

Or a key with which I find
answers to questions crowding my mind.

Building my habit of learning and growing,
asking and researching till I reach knowing.

Here, I've been a mermaid and an elf
I've even learned to be more myself.

I think that I shall never see
a place that's been more useful to me.

With encouraging kind friends with wit
Who tell me to dream big and never quit.

It's only a room with shelves and books,
but it's far more magical than it looks.

"Gung Hey Fat Choi"

"Happy Chinese New Year"

Welcome to the year of the dragon.

If you fancy cooking Chinese tonight, or seeing if your Chinese astrological sign is compatible with someone else's, pop in and see our display of resources.

The stunning dragons were made by one of the Foundation Studies book groups.

Lost without Wikipedia?

Lost without Wikipedia today?

Follow these links to go to online resources for your subject area:

> Blackboard homepage 
> Information Store 
> Subject Resources 
> Select your subject on the right 
> Scroll down for e-journals and recommended websites.

Or pop in and ask us!

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