National Year of Reading: Read all about it
April's theme is Read all about it. Get
reading newspapers and magazines at you local library
this month. All our full-time libraries stock a range of
newspapers and magazine. The biggest selection can be found at the
Barry and Penarth Libraries.
Online Resource Spotlight: Newspapers Online
Our 24 Hour Library allows Vale of
Glamorgan Library members to view a range of information books and
resources online. Many of these databases can be accessed from any
internet PC when you type your library card number. Each month we
will spotlight one of these resources to tie in with the NYR
theme.
This month
we spotlight our online newspapers. The text of articles from all
the major UK newspapers dating back to the mid-90s can be access
from any internet PC via NewsUK. The Times Digital
Archive lets you view scanned pages of the Times from 1785 to
1985. People using Vale library PCs can view scanned copies of the
Daily Mirror from
1903. For more information about these resources please see the
Newspapers Online section of our 24 Hour
Library.
Suggested reading:
- A soul on ice: a life in news by Gavin Hewitt.
- All of these people by Fergal Keane.
- An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
- Corsets to Camouflage by Kate Adie
- From our own correspondent - from the BBC radio programme:
various authors
- How to lose friends and alienate people by Toby Young
- Londonistan - How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within by
Melanie Phillips
- My Trade: a short history of British journalism by Andrew
Marr
- Not on the Label by Felicity Lawrence
- News from No Man's Land by John Simpson
- One Morning in July by Aaron Debnam
- Scared to Death by Christopher Booker
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
- Shooting History by John Snow
- Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
- The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer
- The Storyteller's Daughter by Saira Shah
- The War Against Saddam by John Simpson
- Vote for Who? by Jonathan Maitland
- War Stories by Jeremy Bowen.
You will find a copy of the above titles in at least one of our
libraries. Please check our catalogue for
further details.