Box of Broadcasts (BoB National) Now Available

We now have access to Box of Broadcasts (BoB).

BoB is an innovative shared online off-air TV and radio recording service for UK higher and further education institutions which makes the discovery and use of valuable TV and radio content for education easy and instant.  BoB enables all staff and students to choose and record any broadcast programme from 60+ TV and radio channels.  You can search transcripts and create your own playlists or clips which can be embedded in VITAL.

You can access BoB here: http://bobnational.net/ Click on ‘log in’, select University of Liverpool and use your username and password to log in.

Video tutorials are available to get you started.

NB. BoB is only available to users on the UK mainland, and requires the following (or later) browsers; IE 10, Mozilla Firefox 26, Safari 5, Google Chrome 31.

British Online Archives purchased

We have purchased the complete British Online Archives from Microform Academic Publishers.

Access is available now from http://www.britishonlinearchives.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/ for:

British Broadcasting Corporation
British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900
Colonial and Missionary Records
Twentieth Century Political History

Access to the Communist Party of Great Britain archive is available from http://www.communistpartyarchive.org.uk.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/.

The Library Catalogue, Discover, and the library web pages will be updated in due course.

The Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991 now available

Following a successful trial we are delighted to announce that we have now purchased The Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991. Access is available now and it will appear in the library catalogue and LibGuides (including our A-Z list of databases) very soon.

Developed as the medium for reproducing broadcasts, The Listener (1929-1991) was the weekly newspaper published by the BBC. The complete archive of this landmark publication is an essential witness to the intellectual and cultural history of the twentieth century, and also to the golden years of radio and television.