Fab Fashion Photography Books
Looking for inspiration? The LRC has some beautiful fashion photography books available at 779.2. Including contemporary names such as Tim Walker, Nick Knight and LaChappelle to the iconic Avedon and Demarchelier, there’s something to suit all tastes. They’re on display now so come and feast your eyes!
1 Year on Twitter!
We’re celebrating our first year on Twitter. www.twitter.com/LIPALRC
Follow us for news, info and for this week only - prizes!
LIPA Email to your Phone & Other Useful LRC Guides
Maybe you got a web phone, or an iPod Touch for Christmas? Did you know you can use it to check your LIPA Email? And did you also know that you can access your LIPA network drive using webmail?
Find useful guides to all manner of IT stuff and study support on the LRC’s webpages: http://www.lipa.ac.uk/lrc/support_for_students/support.htm
Costume on DVD
For those costume buffs out there who need to find examples of costume both period and fantasy, the LRC has made life a little easier. We have produced a guide to costume in our DVD film collection which you will find next to the film section in the rolling shelves. You can also do a subject search on the IPAC Film - costume to get a list of period films. We have listed films by the century they are set in, and for the 20th century we have broken it down further by decade. So if you are looking for medieval tunics, Regency gowns, Victorian crinolines, the flapper fashion of the roaring twenties or mini skirts of the swinging sixties they should now be easier to locate. Please feel free to suggest any films for the collection which you think are good examples of period or fantasy costume and we will do our best to obtain a copy.
LRC Support Sessions 2009
Need help using PowerPoint, Excel, Advanced Word (inc. Bibs & Refs) or Essay Writing? Then sign up for one of our Support Sessions. If you wish to attend any of the below then you must sign up for the appropriate session at least 3 hours in advance. Contact us in person, by phone, or e-mail. Tel: 0151 330 3111 lrc@lipa.ac.uk
NB If no-one signs up for the session it will be cancelled.
Tues 6th Oct 5-5.45pm Introductory Excel 5.01
Wed 7th Oct 12.30-1.15pm EssayWriting 5.01
Thurs 8th Oct 2-2.45pm Introductory PowerPoint 5.01
Tues 13th Oct 5-5.45pm Introductory PowerPoint 5.01
Wed 14th Oct 12.30-1.15pm Advanced Word 5.01
Thurs 15th Oct 2-2.45pm Introductory Excel 5.01
Tues 20th Oct 5-5.45pm Essay Writing 5.01
Wed 21st Oct 12.30-1.15pm Introductory PowerPoint 5.01
Thurs 22nd Oct 5-5.45pm Introductory Excel 5.01
Tues 27th Oct 11-11.45am Introductory Excel 5.01
Wed 28th Oct 11-11.45am Advanced Word 5.01
Thurs 29th Oct 2-2.45pm Introductory PowerPoint 5.01
LRC Saturday Opening
The LRC will be opening one Saturday per month to support our weekend MA students. Of course LIPA students from all year groups are welcome to visit us, we look forward to seeing you!
The LRC will be open 11am - 4pm on:
Sat 26th Sept
Sat 17th Oct
Sat 14th Nov
Sat 12th Dec
Sat 16th Jan
Sat 13th Feb
Sat 13th Mar
Sat 17th Apr
Sat 15th May
LRC Opening Hours For Induction Week
Unfortunately the LRC will be closed in the afternoons Mon-Thurs while we carry out inductions. Apologies for any inconvenience caused, we hope you’ll still be able to call by.
The LRC will be open
Monday - Wednesday: 9am - 12pm 6pm - 8pm
Thursday: 9am - 2.30pm 6pm - 8pm
Friday: 9am - 5pm (as usual)
New books in the LRC
Lots of new books have arrived this summer, and there’s more to come. So at least if there’s no sunshine outside there’s plenty of interesting stuff to read in the LRC! The use of technology in marketing is a growing field for publishers and we have a number of new titles on the subject. Including Twitter power by Anthony Robbins, YouTube for business by Michael Miller and The Branding of MTV: will internet kill the video star? by Paul Temporal. The role of technology in innovation and globalisation is also considered in Fenn & Raskino’s Mastering the Hype cycle, and Thomas L. Friedman’s The World is flat. Friedman’s book has recently won the FT/Goldman Sachs business book of the year award. If you’re interested in psychology The Decisive moment: how the brain makes up its mind by Jonah Lehrer, and Think again: why good leaders make bad decisions by Finkelstein, Whitehead & Campbell, should be illuminating.
A number of new dance books have also arrived. These include Essential guide to dance (3rd ed.) by Linda Ashley, Dance composition: an interrelated arts approach by Janice Pomer and Further steps 2 by Constance Kreemer. Two excellent new collections of dance essays are also available; Dance, human rights, and social justice, edited by Jackson & Shapiro-Phim, and the wonderfully titled Ballroom, boogie, shimmy sham, shake: A social and popular dance reader edited by Julie Manning. This includes a large section on ‘the contemporary scene’. There’s not currently much published on contemporary popular and hip-hop dance so this should prove useful.
Finally, if you need a bit of inspiration to keep working hard take a look at Talent is overrated: what really separates world-class performers from everybody else by Geoff Colvin. In a similar vein to Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers Colvin reveals that ‘Greatness doesn’t come from DNA but from practice and perseverance’ - maybe it’s time to start studying for the new term?!
Would you like to use the LRC after graduation? & LRC summer opening
Graduating Diploma/Degree/MA students can purchase an Alumni Readers’ Card for £3 - available from the LRC. This will allow you to use the LRC for reference purposes, you could also bring your laptop and use the Wifi.
Please note that the Alumni Readers’ Card does not allow you to borrow from the LRC or use the PCs
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LRC Summer Opening
1st June – 11th Sept
Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm
Closed:
10th June 9am – 12pm (staff meeting)
13th – 22nd July (stock check)
24th July Afternoon (graduation)
31st August (bank holiday)
Other closures may be necessary, we’ll try to give you plenty of notice.
Hurry! Fill in the LRC Student Survey & you could win a prize!
You have until 15th May to fill in the LRC Student Survey and you could win a £10 Book Token or £10 Printing Credits in our Prize Draw. It will just take a few minutes and you can even fill it in online at http://moodle.lipa.ac.uk/ Alternatively there are paper copies in the LRC.
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