Elections for the Scottish Parliament and a referendum about the UK voting system will take place on 5th May 2011. The Library’s 2011 election guide has information about the registering to vote, how to vote and how to find out more about the referendum. The guide also contains information about the candidates for the Scottish […]
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Forthcoming Library Exhibition
The current exhibition in the Stirling Campus Library, ‘Treasures from our Collections’, will end on Tuesday 26th April. Â A new exhibition will go on display on 2nd May which will provide an historical perspective on Scottish elections with a selection of materials from our political collections. Â If you can’t make it into the Library […]
An international evening of poetry – all welcome
English Studies at the University of Stirling will host an international evening of poetry on 21st April at 7:30pm in A7 in the Pathfoot Building. The evening will feature readings by Kona MacPhee and Sridala Swami, two fresh poetic voices.  Kona MacPhee was raised in Australia. She studied musical composition at Syndey and computer science […]
Connected Histories – British history sources 1500 – 1900
Connected Histories is a brand new resource which searches a range of digital resources relating to British history in the period 1500 – 1900. It cross-searches several key sources for historians including the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, British Newspapers (1600-1900), the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera and the Proceedings of the Old Bailey […]
Nineteenth Century Pamphlet Collection – now available from JSTOR
A new resource for anyone studying or researching nineteenth century British history – the Nineteenth Century Pamphlet Collection is now available from the A-Z list of online resources.  This collection provides access to digitised versions of a range of nineteenth century British pamphlets held in seven UK research libraries. The collection includes:  Bristol Selected […]
Census 2011 – information about completing your form and finding and using historical census data
 The 2011 Census will take place on Sunday 27th March 2011 and everyone living in the UK will be asked to take part. The Census takes place every 10 years and the data gathered is used to decide how taxes are allocated to services such as health, education and transport. A short video about filling in the […]
Extra databases now included in StirGate
The StirGate service continues to expand with several additional databases now available to include in your search. Once you have run a search, a list of the additional databases is available from the right hand side of the search screen. You can add results from as many additional databases as you would like.  The new […]
John Johnson Collection – an archive of printed ephemera
Students and staff can now access the John Johnson Collection – a fascinating online resource for anyone studying or researching British social history from the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection contains over 67,000 digitised documents and is divided into the following categories: 19th century entertainment the booktrade popular prints crime, murders and […]
New exhibition in the Stirling Campus Library – Treasures from our Collections
A new exhibition is now on display in the Library at the Stirling Campus. Treasures from our art, archives and special collections have been gathered together to form an exhibition which will run until the end of April.  The University of Stirling is fortunate to hold a wide variety of ‘treasures’, in its Art Collection, […]
New semester – new and improved StirGate service
Information Services has invested in a replacement for our StirGate service. This new and improved service simultaneously searches many Library resources and offers a new, efficient way of searching for academic information. StirGate is available on and off campus from the A-Z list of online resources or from the Resources tab in the University Portal. What […]