Today at 11 o'clock the students of archaeology will be confronted with the new media in reading. Their books are scanned and downloaded to a e-reader for them to try and use that through the whole semester as a tool for preparing themselves to the exams. The university library of Trondheim and Tapir editions is working together with on that project and archaeology students in Norway will be the first ones to try such a service from the library. The project started in september 2009 and is trying to collect data on the attitude of the students today in using e-books and journals in their curriculum. By the end of the semester a report will be produced and published.
Alexandra Angeletaki
Lars Danielsen
E-readers
Newly acquired
Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. Browse through the different subjects as in the following example.
History and Geography
The history and geography collection, although rich in titles on English life and history, spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and travelers. It is particularly strong in ancient history, including many editions of Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The user will also find numerous histories of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the nations and states of Europe (with particular strength in histories of the Scandinavian countries), as well as histories of Russia. The collection is strong in titles on the French Revolution, particularly English responses to it.
Geography titles feature travel accounts, pilgrimages, topographical histories, and gazetteers. A strength of the collection is the variety of travel accounts, from explorations of the British Isles to adventure travel. Translations of travel accounts, especially by French travelers, are well represented in the collection.
Where can you find information?
Find books and articles:
Open Access
- Open Archives In Norway
- BORA is an institutional repository containing scientific and research related material from the University of Bergen. Here you will find full-text peer-reviewed journal articles, theses, dissertations and other digital research materials.
- Directory of Open Access Journals.Quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
- LIST OF OPEN ACCESS WEB SITES
Of Interest?
- The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim
- The Museum of Natural History and Archaeology in Trondheim
- A vast excavation area in Norway
- Norsk Folk Museum
- Sami Museum, Varanger
- Stavanger Museum
- Bergen Museum
- Tromsø Museum
- Sami Univeristy College
- Alta Museum
- Artikkelarkiv om Uppåkra
- International Student Festival in Trondheim
Knudzons Library is the heart of Gunnerus Library
The Archives and Historical Collections of the Gunnerus Library
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
From Univeristas newspaper
Electronic pilot project
At the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, the pilot project «E-pensum» is starting these days. This means that six students in two different subjects will be given e-book devices containing all of their curriculum. At this point, there are possible plans for a similar project at the University of Oslo next autumn semester.
– If the plans are realized, we want to do them in a slightly larger scale, says Rasmussen.
Whether the plans are realized or not will be decided in the beginning of February.
In the library at BI Norwegian School of Management there are just below 100 titles available electronically, and non-fictional curriculum is one of the most important areas of commitment. Most of the most important titles, however, is not available as e-books yet. BI also fails to get rid of the user limitations that come with the e-books.
– It is possible to print the pages, but there are certain regulations that make the process a bit complicated, so printing is not something we do, says Kristin Danielsen, librarian at BI.
These limitations are, according to Danielsen, made by the publishers, and are beyond the libraries´ control.
Øyvind Bosnes Engen • Ketil Blom (foto) • Translated by Ingrid Flognfeldt BrubakerFrom Univeristas newspaper: From study hall to sofa corner
As of now, students at the University of Oslo can download 150 000 e-books sitting in their own living rooms. The University of Oslo Library is going electronic.
2010-01-20 På norsk– What´s new is that we have now got electronic literature that won´t demand special technology to be read, says Live Rasmussen, main librarian at the University of Oslo Library (UB).
Electronic literature has previously been shamed by limitations when it comes to printing, access and application. The new documents are free and available from every computer connected to the university´s network, and there are no limitations when it comes to printing.
Electronic pilot project
At the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, the pilot project «E-pensum» is starting these days. This means that six students in two different subjects will be given e-book devices containing all of their curriculum. At this point, there are possible plans for a similar project at the University of Oslo next autumn semester.
– If the plans are realized, we want to do them in a slightly larger scale, says Rasmussen.
Whether the plans are realized or not will be decided in the beginning of February.
In the library at BI Norwegian School of Management there are just below 100 titles available electronically, and non-fictional curriculum is one of the most important areas of commitment. Most of the most important titles, however, is not available as e-books yet. BI also fails to get rid of the user limitations that come with the e-books.
– It is possible to print the pages, but there are certain regulations that make the process a bit complicated, so printing is not something we do, says Kristin Danielsen, librarian at BI.
These limitations are, according to Danielsen, made by the publishers, and are beyond the libraries´ control.
Øyvind Bosnes Engen • Ketil Blom (foto) • Translated by Ingrid Flognfeldt BrubakerWednesday, December 2, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
80 young pupils from the Kalvskinnet primary school in Trondheim town came to visit our university library Tuesday 27.10.09 and see a book being made on a visit at our bookbinding section. Our bookbinders Kari and Ingunn showed them how to do easy thinks, as printing a title on skin and sawing together pages.
Kalvskinnet is one of the oldest schools in Trondheim that is struggling for its existence since politicians of our area have decided to close it down. They see a town with only shops and bars but with no families and children around the center of town.The parents organization of the School, the school itself and our library is trying with a cooperation project to shed light on the importance of the history of a school and its long existence as part of the identity of this town. How can one not see that there, where change comes in time and attitudes, history is created and the relationship to that is part of the identity of this town. How can a town continue to exist with no children and schools. Why do we have to follow the main stream all the time. In a small town as Trondheim it is actually possible to maintain a small scale in everything.
Today the school arranged a historical day acting in a theater play in cooperation with two actors in the roles of the strict teachers under the theatrical instruction of Lene Rønnningen and the texts of Marte Huke. The cloths of the teachers and the pupils, the food, the manners and pupil behavior together with the morning prayers and church psalms in the class gave a feeling of going back to time and experienced how its actually was to be a pupil back in 1890`s. The young boys and girls thought it all was very much fun. It all started with the exhibition of pictures from the archives of our library and the exhibition is now hanging at the school and will be moved at the Museum of Natural science and Archaeology the 12 of November. See more pictures from the 1890`s here
Kalvskinnet is one of the oldest schools in Trondheim that is struggling for its existence since politicians of our area have decided to close it down. They see a town with only shops and bars but with no families and children around the center of town.The parents organization of the School, the school itself and our library is trying with a cooperation project to shed light on the importance of the history of a school and its long existence as part of the identity of this town. How can one not see that there, where change comes in time and attitudes, history is created and the relationship to that is part of the identity of this town. How can a town continue to exist with no children and schools. Why do we have to follow the main stream all the time. In a small town as Trondheim it is actually possible to maintain a small scale in everything.
Today the school arranged a historical day acting in a theater play in cooperation with two actors in the roles of the strict teachers under the theatrical instruction of Lene Rønnningen and the texts of Marte Huke. The cloths of the teachers and the pupils, the food, the manners and pupil behavior together with the morning prayers and church psalms in the class gave a feeling of going back to time and experienced how its actually was to be a pupil back in 1890`s. The young boys and girls thought it all was very much fun. It all started with the exhibition of pictures from the archives of our library and the exhibition is now hanging at the school and will be moved at the Museum of Natural science and Archaeology the 12 of November. See more pictures from the 1890`s here
A historical play about the past
80 young pupils from the Kalvskinnet primary school in Trondheim town came to visit our university library Tuesday 27.10.09 and see a book being made on a visit at our bookbinding section. Our bookbinders Kari and Ingunn showed them how to do easy thinks, as printing a title on skin and sawing together pages.
Kalvskinnet is one of the oldest schools in Trondheim that is struggling for its existence since politicians of our area have decided to close it down. They see a town with only shops and bars but with no families and children around the center of town.The parents organization of the School, the school itself and our library is trying with a cooperation project to shed light on the importance of the history of a school and its long existence as part of the identity of this town. How can one not see that there, where change comes in time and attitudes, history is created and the relationship to that is part of the identity of this town. How can a town continue to exist with no children and schools. Why do we have to follow the main stream all the time. In a small town as Trondheim it is actually possible to maintain a small scale in everything.
Today the school arranged a historical day acting in a theater play in cooperation with two actors in the roles of the strict teachers under the theatrical instruction of Lene Rønnningen and the texts of Marte Huke. The cloths of the teachers and the pupils, the food, the manners and pupil behavior together with the morning prayers and church psalms in the class gave a feeling of going back to time and experienced how its actually was to be a pupil back in 1890`s. The young boys and girls thought it all was very much fun. It all started with the exhibition of pictures from the archives of our library and the exhibition is now hanging at the school and will be moved at the Museum of Natural science and Archaeology the 12 of November. See more pictures from the 1890`s here.
Kalvskinnet is one of the oldest schools in Trondheim that is struggling for its existence since politicians of our area have decided to close it down. They see a town with only shops and bars but with no families and children around the center of town.The parents organization of the School, the school itself and our library is trying with a cooperation project to shed light on the importance of the history of a school and its long existence as part of the identity of this town. How can one not see that there, where change comes in time and attitudes, history is created and the relationship to that is part of the identity of this town. How can a town continue to exist with no children and schools. Why do we have to follow the main stream all the time. In a small town as Trondheim it is actually possible to maintain a small scale in everything.
Today the school arranged a historical day acting in a theater play in cooperation with two actors in the roles of the strict teachers under the theatrical instruction of Lene Rønnningen and the texts of Marte Huke. The cloths of the teachers and the pupils, the food, the manners and pupil behavior together with the morning prayers and church psalms in the class gave a feeling of going back to time and experienced how its actually was to be a pupil back in 1890`s. The young boys and girls thought it all was very much fun. It all started with the exhibition of pictures from the archives of our library and the exhibition is now hanging at the school and will be moved at the Museum of Natural science and Archaeology the 12 of November. See more pictures from the 1890`s here.
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