What's New - full backlist

• January 2013: Happy New Year, everyone!  24/7 opening at Newton Park is now in operation.
• December 2012: the Christmas & New Year opening times are now on our web pages or pick up a leaflet from Library Reception.
• November 2012: Newton Park Library Roof Works: Thank you for bearing with us during the essential improvement works to the Newton Park Library roof over the last few weeks. There are alternative study seats available in the silent and quiet study rooms on the first floor of the Library above the journals room.  Please ask at  Library Reception if you need help in locating these.
• November 2012: looking for writing on rock music? See our new service - Rock's Backpages - for classic articles from the last 50 years
• October 2012: the music scores and DVDs are now back in place on their new shelving at Newton Park!
• October 2012: interlibrary loans can now be requested online, via the two links on the library homepage.
• October 2012: essential repairs to the main Library roof at Newton Park will cause some noise and disruption over the next few weeks. If you need them, more Quiet and Silent Study spaces are available upstairs in the New Wing.
• October 2012: new fines regime in place from 1 October - overdue 3-week loans will be 25p a day. Week loans and 3-day loans stay the same, 50p a day. Maximum fines are now £7.50 per loan.
• October 2012: the Library now aims to supply e-books to academics by the next working day.
• September 2012: the Music and DVD Rooms will be re-stocked over the weekend 6/7 October.
• June 2012: Our summer vacation opening times are now available.
• 2012/13: You can now renew your library items directly from our homepage (see below).
• 2012/13: We have a new email address! Please email library@bathspa.ac.uk for any library related enquiry.
• June 2012: Alison Baud (Director of Library Services) recently met the new SU President Amy Dawson to discuss the development of the Library service, and was able to hand out a prize to winner of our Library Survey competition.
• May 2012: Thank you to everyone who recently completed our questionnaire about Library Services. Here are the winners of our prize draw.
• May 2012: On Bank Holiday Monday & Tuesday (4th & 5th June) Newton Park library will be open from 9am-5pm, with the foyer and IT suites remaining 24 hours. Sion Hill will be open from 1pm-5pm.
• April 2012: Newton Park Library now fully open until midnight, Monday to Friday, up to Friday 1 June!
• April 2012: Our Easter vacation opening hours are available here.
• March 2012: Holburne Museum Library now open!
• January 2012: Video tutorial - How to find eBooks (YouTube)
• January 2012: Video tutorial - using Education Research Complete (YouTube)
• December 2011: The 24/7 opening at Newton Park Library will end at 8 pm on Friday 16th December and begin again on Monday 9th January.
• December 2011: Our Christmas 2011 opening hours are now available.
• October 2011: The library now provides access to the complete searchable archive of American Vogue.
• Summer 2011: Summer opening hours are now available
• Summer 2011: Don't forget - outstanding debts/fines may result in you not being able to register for the next academic year.
• Summer term: Newton Park foyer is now open 24/7 until 8 p.m. on 1 July.
• May 2011: Library Survey 2011 (now closed): tell us what you think about LIS! Students have the option of being entered into a prize draw to win four £25 Amazon vouchers. The closing date for responses is 20th May.
• March 2011 blog post: from 18 April, students and staff will receive journal articles requested through interlibrary loans via email.
• February 2011: Want to follow Stella McCartney's career or delve into Manolo Blahnik's shoe designs? Find out more from the Berg Fashion Library, an international encyclopaedia of fashion-related information and images.
• April 2011: 24/7 opening will end at 8 p.m., this Friday, 15 April, and re-start on Monday 9 May.
• Easter 2011: the vacation opening hours are now available.
• January 2011: Newton Park Library foyer is now open on a 24/7 basis during term-time. The newly refurbished foyer now provides some 90 study spaces with full wifi access and issue/return facilities.
• January 2011:The Glass Room, a bookable group study room for students, is now available. The Room is equipped with a large LCD screen for displaying presentations or other work. Bookings will be taken for sessions of one or two hours between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday to Friday.
• November 2010: two new electronic resources now online.  In 1937, 500 volunteers agreed to start writing about their everyday lives on the 12th of each month: this amazing archive and more make up Mass Observation Online, an invaluable research tool for a host of subject areas. We have added yet more titles to Periodicals Archive Online: you can now get the full text of nearly 700 journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
• Autumn 2010: Following comments in the Library survey about books not coming back when other people had put a hold on them, we are increasing fines on 3-week loans to 20p a day, to a maximum of £10 per item, from Monday 11th October.  Fines on week loans and 3-day loans remain at 50p a day, also to a maximum of £10 per item.  This is the first time we have increased 3-week loan fines for 10 years!  So, don't forget to return or renew your loans on time!
• Autumn 2010: During term 1, Newton Park Library foyer is being refurbished to improve our services and facilities. The Library aims to remain open during the works but, inevitably, there will be noise and disruption in the foyer area. Upon completion of the refurbishment, the ground floor study area and laptop zone will be open 24/7 in term time. Please visit the Library blog for further information.
• November 2010: On Monday 8th November, Sion Hill Library will be closed from 9am to 12 noon for a smoke alarm system test.
• October 2010: Welcome to all new students!  Scan through our pages to find out what we can do for you during your studies.
• Summer 2010: Coverage of Periodicals Archive Online has been extended from 80 to almost 400 journals covering the arts, humanities and social sciences: this includes the backfiles for Art Journal, Harper's, Sight and Sound, Spectator and many others.
• June 2010: Our strategic plan to 2011/12 is now available.
• June 2010: more Eighteenth Century Journals have been added to our collection, featuring periodicals from Chetham's Library, Manchester, and the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
• June 2010: in May 1842, the Illustrated London News brought out its first issue and featured....the war in Afghanistan!  See the whole archive for more interesting events and people from then up until 2003.
• May 2010: After student consultation the Library is now open until 8pm every Sunday during the assessment period.
• April 2010: LION - Literature Online - gives you access to over 350,000 works of English & American poetry, drama and prose, 300 full text journals plus lots more.
• April 2010: LION - Literature Online - gives you access to over 350,000 works of English & American poetry, drama and prose, 300 full text journals plus lots more.
• March 2010: read Virginia Woolf on Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot on Marvell, reviews of Lolita and Animal Farm in the Times Literary Supplement Archive covering 1902 to 2005.
• March 2010: see Empire Online for original documentation about the development of empire from the points of view of the empire-builders and the indigenous peoples.
• February 2010: find more on the media in Film and Television Literature - 100 journals and 100 books in full text
• February 2010 Blog post: Athens access to Library resources will be removed in April
• February 2010 Blog post: Access Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Education Research Complete, Theatre & Dance, MLA & SocINDEX via your mobile
• January 2010: From January 1, we have access to Project MUSE containing some 300 journals in full-text and including current issues, covering the arts, humanities and social sciences.
• December 2009 Blog post: What is Boolean logic?
• November 2009: take a look at Theatre in Video - streaming video of a range of topics from Shakespeare productions to Samuel Beckett and Helen Mirren.
• November 2009: The Christmas 2009 opening hours are now available
• October 2009: new services now online - more Eighteenth Century Journals, plus Literary Manuscripts (17th and 18th century poetry) and the Perdita Manuscripts (early modern women authors) - all of these contain facsimiles of the original papers and manuscipts
• October 2009 Blog post: useful information for users of Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO)
• September 2009: The new Sion Hill Library opens in its new location on 28 September - pay them a visit!
• September 2009 Blog Post: Access some of our digital resources using your Bath Spa username/password as part of a pilot
• September 2009 Blog Post: More images of the new Sion Hill Library construction
• August 2009 Blog Post: Library and Information Services purchase a new Image Management System
• August 2009: The Library has launched a 'Library and Information Services Blog' to keep users up to date with news and developments within the service.
• July 2009: Sion Hill Library is now closed. It reopens in its new location at Sion Hill on Monday 28 September.
• July 2009: Congratulations to all those who will be attending Graduation on 17 and 18 July!  Don't forget that Newton Park Library will be closed to facilitate the festivities.
• June 2009: Remember to renew all library loans over the summer vacation before you leave University. Outstanding debts/fines may result in you not being able to graduate or register for the next academic year.
• June 2009: Summer vacation opening hours are now available.
• June 2009: For students who are finishing courses shortly, please ensure you only top up your printing account with credit that you will use before you leave University as the library is unable to provide refunds for unused printing credits.
• May 2009: Extra Green Zone space is now available at Newton Park Library! The space can be found next door to the stationery shop, providing twenty extra study spaces and extra points for laptop use.
• May Bank Holiday Opening: On 4th & 25th of May Newton Park Library will be open with a Library Helper on duty from 9.30 am to 5 pm
• April 2009: RefWorks, an online research management, writing and collaboration tool has now been launched at Bath Spa.
• March 2009: The Easter 2009 opening hours for Newton Park and Sion Hill are now available.
• March 2009: Bath Spa Library welcomes two new Information Managers! Matt Durant (Digital Resources) and Mark de Fleury (School Liaison).
• February 2009: We now have online access to the Burney Newspaper Collection, representing the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media.
• January 2009: More local news! NewsBank now includes the Bath Chronicle from April 2008 onwards.  Another addition to our service is the Financial Times from 1998.
• December 2008: Looking for information on contemporary visual arts?  Have you tried a-n: the artists information service?  Have a look at their Knowledge Bank, interviews with artists or browse back issues of their magazine.
• November 2008: More e-journals now available!  The HE community now has access to the Periodicals Online Archive (80 journals from 1891 to 2000 in the arts, humanities and social sciences) and the ACS Legacy Archive (23 journals up to 1995) from the American Chemical Society.
• November 2008: Christmas vacation opening times now available!
• October 2008: Looking for television or cinema news on a topic?  Try the new NewsFilm Online, containing 3,000 hours and around 60,000 stories from the 1910s to the 2000s.
• August 2008: Oxford Music Online now includes the Encyclopedia of Popular Music which covers all genres and periods from 1900 to the present, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music.
• August 2008: searching for contemporary sources on 19th Century issues?  Take a look at our new service - 19th Century UK Periodicals.  Series 1 of this new collection particularly concentrates on women & children, humour & satire and sport & leisure.
• 1 August 2008: Athens accounts. Changes to the Athens system mean that your Athens username/password will continue to function but you may start to see alternative login requirements (typically, picking your university from a list) on certain sites. We expect disruption to be minimal but, if you experience problems, please ask Library staff for help.
• Library Re-roofing: Large areas of the library roof and lighting are being replaced over the summer. Disruption of facilities should be minimal, but there will be some unavoidable noise pollution. We hope your studies will not be affected - if you need directing to a quieter area, ask a member of staff.
• Summer 2008: We're open over the summer - see our opening times page for details. Covers both Newton Park and Sion Hill libraries.
• June 2008: Want to know when "mobile phone" entered the language?  Where did the word "robot" come from?  What does "nice" really mean?  You can find out in the Oxford English Dictionary - an unsurpassed online guide to the meaning and history of over half a million words in English.
• May 2008: Grove Art Online brings you information about art from prehistory to the present through 45,000 articles and over 3,000 thumbnail images of art and drawings.
• May 2008: Interested in everyday life in the18th, 19th or 20th century?  Take a look at the John Johnson Collection - posters and handbills for theatrical and non-theatrical entertainments, broadsides relating to murders and executions, book and journal prospectuses and a wealth of different kinds of printed advertising material.
• February 2008: We now have online access to the House of Commons 20th Century parliamentary papers which complement our existing collection of 18th and 19th century papers.
• February 2008: A number of e-textbooks are being provided free of charge to the HE community for the next couple of years.  For us, they are in business and media studies - see our e-book listing, the new titles are in bold.
• January 2008: Three new classical music e-books have been added to our selection.

• December 2007: MarketLine updated. MarketLine offers a comprehensive and unique collection of company, industry, financial, product, country information, research and data extending across every major marketplace and industry.
• October 2007: House of Commons Parliamentary Papers updated. In addition to the 19th century collection, we now have access to the 18th Century Papers, containing documents back to the revolution of 1688, and also a trial of the 20th Century Papers, up to and including the 2003/4 session.
• September 2007: British History Online updated. We now have access to the Premium Content. This comprises the Calendars of State Papers, Domestic, Scotland and Ireland, 1547 to 1704, providing access to a wealth of information for political, social, religious and cultural history.