Guided tours

GUIDED TOURS!!!

Staff are cordially invited to a preview of the ‘new’ Llandaff Learning Centre.

Now that the Cardiff School of Art and Design collection has been fully integrated with the previous Llandaff stock it will be a chance for you to familiarise yourself with the new locations of the books and journals and DVD’s and the Slide Collection. Also, you will be able to view the additional facilities which have been developed for researchers and students such as the Special Collections room where we house the Ceramics archive and Artists Books Collection.

 

Just drop in any Wednesday afternoon between 2pm and 4pm in July, for a tour of the building with one of the Library staff.

 

Inductions in the new year will incorporate tours for new students

 

 

 

Library Closure

HG Library – Easter opening hours

 

 

 

 

 

Summer vacation opening hours

North Wales for Holidays (colour litho)

Image courtasy of Bridgeman Education

 

The summer term is finishing on Friday 14 June 2013. 

The opening hours of Howard Gardens library from Saturday 15 June until Monday 23 September are:

 Monday – Friday 9.00 – 12.30  and 13.30 – 17.00

The Library will be closed at weekends and Bank Holiday Monday, 26 August.

Happy Easter

Easter card, c.1910, Kuderna F.

Image courtesy of Bridgeman Education

 Howard Gardens Library – Vacation opening times

 

Free trial of leading fashion and design trend analysis site

Retailers and businesses spend thousands on WGSN to keep connected with the latest trends and designers.  And now for a very limited period of time, you can access this huge range of up-to-date, cutting edge information – for free.  

WGSN (Worth Global Style Network) is the leading online trend-analysis and research service providing creative and business intelligence for the apparel, style, design and retail industries. 

If you are interested in design and want to know more about trend forecasting and analysis, then we recommend you look at WGSN.  

If you are interested, please contact electronicservices@cardiffmet.ac.uk for more details.

Until then, have a look at some designers of the future as tipped by WGSN –  http://wgsn.tumblr.com/tagged/future+talent

A warm post festive welcome from Llandaff Library

 

The Social Learning Lounge at Llandaff Library

Warming up the cold post-Christmas weeks, librarians at Llandaff Library hosted a cheerful informal chat and catch up event with Llandaff academics.   Plied with hot drinks and Welsh cakes, academic staff and librarians alike were interested to find out more about the wealth of information resources at Cardiff Metropolitan. 

The purpose of the event was to strengthen links between the library and academic departments and get to know academics face-to-face.  We developed a greater appreciation of heavy academic workloads of teaching and research commitments.  And being librarians, even assisted with a couple of queries.  It was also a chance to showcase our professionalism and commitment in striving to ensure the library continues to be relevant and essential to both students and staff at Cardiff Metropolitan.

To find out how CSAD Information Advisors can help you, contact Catherine Drake at Llandaff or Jenny Godfrey at Howard Gardens