I believe art, even reduced to the simplest means, can be the vehicle for new ideas. For me, just walking can liberate the imagination. Doing simple mindless things, like watching a river flow… can free and heighten my senses.
(Richard Long in Stones and Flies, Arts Council video.)
(Anthony Caro, in Quest for the New Sculpture, by Ian Barker, 2006)
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College users of Avery Index, the important finding tool for architectural periodical articles, may have noticed that the library now sources this service through the database provider OCLC FirstSearch.
Use of the FirstSearch platform brings us into line with Edinburgh University and means that all architecture students, staff and researchers in the two institutions can access Avery through the same search interface.
FirstSearch searches the same Avery data as CSA Illumina, our previous supplier, and provides similar powerful search facilities and online help and search tips.
A seminar introducing College users to Avery Index via the OCLC FirstSearch interface will be arranged later this semester.
Avery Index can be accessed on or off-campus by following the links on this Portal page.
The British Geological Survey’s (BGS) new OpenGeoscience portal allows the public to study all the UK’s rocks on a simple Google map, down to a scale of 1:50,000. Toggling the map shows overlying towns and streets.
A range of educational and professional tools are also brought together on the website, including the huge national geological archive of photographs.
Tens of thousands of images have been amassed into the BGS library, showing different rock forms around Britain, fossil types, and the impact on the landscape of natural events such as flooding.
The whole archive is now searchable and free to use for non-commercial purposes.
The news is reported on the BBC website.
