Friday 29 May 2009

Archives Roadshow - Saturday 6th June 2009 - De Grey Court - 10.30am - 3.30pm

Find out more about our history and be involved in the creation of a Heritage Room that would have a regularly changing display of archives available for viewing by former students and staff of Ripon and York, current staff and students, prospective students and their families, friends and visitors in general.

How can you help?

  • by coming along to see and discuss items on display

  • by bringing your own memorabilia to discuss and for us to photograph and record

  • by considering making a donation of your archives for display in the Heritage Room (all donations will be acknowledged and recorded)



Programme:

  • Welcome

  • Exhibition for viewing

  • Discussion, recording and photographing archives

  • Tours of the Heritage Trail

  • Tours of the De Grey Court building

  • Refreshments



Archives that we would like to assemble:

  • Documents - reports, minutes

  • Artefacts - badges, trophies, medallions, medals

  • Photographs, negatives, transparencies, images

  • Framed pictures

  • Clothing - caps, ties, blazers, scarves, gowns, sports clothing

  • Magazines - White Rose, Spread Eagle, Ripon Association Magazine (pre-1980 editions)

  • Chapel documentation - service sheets, prayer books

  • Programmes, sports events, prospectuses, student guides

  • School Practice notebooks

  • Letters and postcards

  • Books - used for College courses, those written by former staff and students

  • Newspaper articles

  • Records - 33/45/78 rpm

  • Tapes

  • 8mm and 16mm films

  • Videos, CDs and DVDs

  • Any other memorabilia



There is no charge for attendance on the day, but we would like to know if you are coming for catering purposes.

If you would like to attend, please contact:

Friday 15 May 2009

Words Spit & Splinter - Debjani Chatterjee - Friday 15th May 2009

Debjani Chatterjee, Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Writer in Residence at York St John University will be reading poetry from her latest collection Words Spit & Splinter.

Dr Debjani Chatterjee, MBE, completes the final year of her Royal Literary Fund Fellowship this May. To celebrate her time at York St John University, Debjani will be reading poetry from her collection entitled Words Spit & Splinter, just-published, and her earlier Namaskar: New & Selected Poems.

'A poet full of wit and charm' (Andrew Motion) and 'a voice of rare originality' (David Morley), Debjani is one of Britain's best-known Asian poets. With over 50 books, she is also a prose writer, editor, literary translator and children's writer. A former Chair of the National Association of Writers in Education and the Arts Council of England's Translations Panel, she is a Patron of Survivors' Poetry, Co-Chair of the charity Hyphen 21... and active in literary, inter-faith, community and cancer groups. Her many honours include an honorary doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University and an MBE for services to Literature.

Friday 15 May 2009, 12.30pm

C4C Chapel,
York St John University


This lecture is free of charge and open to everyone. To book a ticket please contact the Marketing Office on T: 01904 876503 or E: events@yorksj.ac.uk.

Friday 1 May 2009

Problems accessing library website & resources - 1 May, 2009

We are currently experiencing intermittent outages in access to the Internet, caused by problems outside of the University network.

If you are having difficulty accessing Athens-mediated resources or any of the information and resources available through the library website, it is entirely possible that this is the root cause.

We will post updates here (if we are able to) as we receive them.

Summer Term library return dates

Please check your return dates when borrowing and renewing from the library. Over the summer term, return dates will vary for:

  • Four week/28 day (normal) loans

  • Seven day (week) loans

  • Hospital Library items



Please check your self-issue receipts or log on to your library account for return dates, or call (01904 876700) or email (library@yorksj.ac.uk) us if you aren't sure.