Updated: the issues with accessing articles delivered electronically by Swetswise on campus PCs should now have been resolved. However, if you experience any difficulty accessing an electronic article on campus, please contact the library information and help desk on the first floor of Fountains Learning Centre.
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties accessing articles delivered electronically by Swetswise on campus PCs. If you experience difficulties accessing an article supplied by Swetswise, please come to the library information and help desk for advice.
Off-campus access is not affected.
We are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible.
Thursday 29 October 2009
Thursday 8 October 2009
Resolved: Off-campus (Athens) access problems
Updated 4:30pm, 08.10.2009: Athens problems have been resolved. Please contact us if you continue to experience problems.
We are currently (10.00am, 08.10.2009) experiencing problems with Athens authentication. Some users may find that Athens authentication is intermittently available - that is, access to electronic resources such as electronic journals and databases from off-campus may be patchy.
We will post an update here as soon as more information becomes available.
We are currently (10.00am, 08.10.2009) experiencing problems with Athens authentication. Some users may find that Athens authentication is intermittently available - that is, access to electronic resources such as electronic journals and databases from off-campus may be patchy.
We will post an update here as soon as more information becomes available.
Lecture: Mary the Jewish Mother - Ed Kessler
Monday October 19th at 6 p.m. in De Grey 017
The speaker is Dr Ed Kessler, a Jewish academic in Theology & Religious Studies. The lecture is being sponsored by the Centre for Marian Studies, and admission is free.
Mary is prominent in Christianity as the archetypal 'mother', and she is also celebrated in Islam. But, of course, Mary herself was Jewish, Mariam in Aramaic (Miriam in Hebrew). The lecture explores the figure of Mary from a Jewish perspective.
The speaker is Dr Ed Kessler, a Jewish academic in Theology & Religious Studies. The lecture is being sponsored by the Centre for Marian Studies, and admission is free.
Mary is prominent in Christianity as the archetypal 'mother', and she is also celebrated in Islam. But, of course, Mary herself was Jewish, Mariam in Aramaic (Miriam in Hebrew). The lecture explores the figure of Mary from a Jewish perspective.
Monday 5 October 2009
Centre for Languages & Linguistics Colloquium Series 2009/10
The first of twelve lectures in The Centre for Languages & Linguistics Colloquium Series 2009/10 will be held on Wednesday 7 October 2009, from 5.00-6.30pm in the Fountains Lecture Theatre.
Prof Geoffrey K Pullum from the University of Edinburgh will present:
Adjectives and Demons: Grammar, Style, and Dan Brown''s writing
ABSTRACT
English grammars have misdefined both "adjective" and "adverb" for over 200 years. As a result all English dictionaries miscategorise numerous words. For at least 50 years some prescriptive usage manuals and style textbooks have condemned adjectives and adverbs as superfluous or even harmful words: EB White (who wrote "Charlotte''s Web") thought you should eschew them (though in fact he used them copiously). Alistair Cooke seems to have imagined himself to be doing without them entirely in his "Letter from America" scripts (though he wasn''t). Meanwhile, Dan Brown makes millions writing novels in which the frequency of adjective and adverb modification is simply astonishing. What is one to make of all this? In this talk I try to draw something coherent out of a long-running farce of bungled descriptions, absurd style advice, and plain bad writing.
AFTERWORDS
If anyone would like to join Geoff for dinner after the talk, please contact Andrew Merrison E: a.merrison@yorksj.ac.uk
Prof Geoffrey K Pullum from the University of Edinburgh will present:
Adjectives and Demons: Grammar, Style, and Dan Brown''s writing
ABSTRACT
English grammars have misdefined both "adjective" and "adverb" for over 200 years. As a result all English dictionaries miscategorise numerous words. For at least 50 years some prescriptive usage manuals and style textbooks have condemned adjectives and adverbs as superfluous or even harmful words: EB White (who wrote "Charlotte''s Web") thought you should eschew them (though in fact he used them copiously). Alistair Cooke seems to have imagined himself to be doing without them entirely in his "Letter from America" scripts (though he wasn''t). Meanwhile, Dan Brown makes millions writing novels in which the frequency of adjective and adverb modification is simply astonishing. What is one to make of all this? In this talk I try to draw something coherent out of a long-running farce of bungled descriptions, absurd style advice, and plain bad writing.
AFTERWORDS
If anyone would like to join Geoff for dinner after the talk, please contact Andrew Merrison E: a.merrison@yorksj.ac.uk
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