Ancient world studies/Archaeology

Books recently added to the Library’s collections include:

Greek sport and social status / by Mark Golden (ANCIENT HISTORY P 80 GOL)

Ancient literacies : the culture of reading in Greece and Rome / edited by William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker (CLASSICS A 60 JOH)

Soldiers, sailors and sandalmakers : a social reading of Ramesside Period votive stelae / Karen Exell (EGYPTOLOGY QUARTOS T 30 EXE)

Pastoralist landscapes and social interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia / Michael D. Frachetti (INST ARCH DBK FRA)

Globalizing the prehistory of Japan : language, genes and civilization / Ann Kumar (INST ARCH DBO KUM)

Greetings in the Lord : early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus papyri / AnneMarie Luijendijk (PAPYROLOGY PZ 15 LUI)

Roman portraits in context / Jane Fejfer (YATES M 225 FEI)

UCL has a trial of Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: International Database of Artists Online until 31 December 2009.

This reference work offers biographical information on more than 1 million artists.

Please send feedback to ejournals@ucl.ac.uk

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The new accessions list for June 2009 is now out

1. SUMMER OPENING HOURS

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/opening.shtml 

The above web page gives details of the summer opening for UCL’s libraries.

 2. CLOSURES ON JUNE 30TH

On Tuesday 30 June many of UCL’s libraries will be closed throughout the day, to allow staff to attend the UCL Library Services annual conference. Some libraries will remain open, but with reduced services. See the above link for more detail. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience that the closures cause.

Extended library opening hours across UCL Library Services came to an end last Friday, 29th May. For the next two weeks, until Saturday 13th June, our opening hours in the Institute of Archaeology Library and 5th floor cluster will return to usual term-time opening hours:Monday - Thursday: 9.30 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.Friday: 9.30 a.m. to 7.00 p.m.

We have a 45 day trial to the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. To access this please go to:http://litguide.press.jhu.edu/index.html

On Bank Holiday Monday 25th May, the following UCL libraries will be open.Institute of Archaeology Library1100-1800

* Sunday 24th May: Main and Science libraries close at 2100.24 hour opening resumes Tuesday 26th May at 0845 and ends on Saturday 30th May at 2100.A friendly seasonal reminder: books your borrow during the summer vacation can be recalled by other readers and this can result in long loans being shortened (we advise you by email) and/or renewals not being possible, so please be ready to return such items promptly. Thank you.

As a result of a recent donation to the UCL Libraries, we have a small number of Egyptology books that are surplus to our requirements.  Please email j.cooban@ucl.ac.uk  for a detailed list. We will accept any reasonable offer with all monies going back into the Institute of Archaeology book fund. If you would like to view and/or purchase any of the volumes please ask either Katie Meheux, Jes Cooban or Robert Kirby in the Institute of Archadeology Library.

UCL has a trial of Oxford Biblical Studies Online until 3 June 2009.

Oxford Biblical Studies Online includes the New Oxford Annotated Bible and five other popular Oxford study bibles.  Texts from selected Oxford bibles can be viewed in side-by-side display with the user’s choice of commentary and annotations from the study bibles, the stand-alone Oxford Bible Commentary, and A-Z concordances for the NRSV and NAB translations. The Bible content is supplemented by collections of major apocryphal Old and New Testament texts in translation.

To help subject librarians assess the importance of this resource, please send feedback to ejournals@ucl.ac.uk, or post a comment, below.

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• Trial expires: 3 June 2009