Explore York Library and Learning Centre as opened in 2010: New features.
This as live TV style interview took place at the Make the most of Yortime: Yorgroup event which took place at York St John University's C4C in April 2010 where Julia, from Explore York spoke to Becky - one of KhaoZ Media's reporters.
This is what is essentially archive footage - a little nod back to all the hard work, and a reminder of the excitement that surrounded the re-opening of York's Explore Library and Learning Centre (previously York Central Library) which took place in Spring/Summer 2010.
Now the library is open, this video can be used as a reference for opening times, new features such as the electronic check in systems, and as a point of reference for anyone.
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Kersten England at Explore York 2010
What Should York Remember?
As part of the Heritage Lottery Funded York: Gateway to History project delivered by Explore York Libraries and Archives we asked York residents and visitors 'What Should York Remember?'
Their responses along with 600 other gathered during the project were given to local artist Emily Harvey, who reinterpreted the responses into a piece of public art. The art titled 'York Panorama' is available for the public to view on the 1st floor landing at York Explore Library and Archives, Library Square, Museum Street, York.
Summer Reading Challenge launched at Explore York Libraries
Explore York Libraries have launched this years Summer Reading Challenge.
Over 3 thousand children are taking part in the event, which themed around Animal Agents.
This week, children have been making animations as part of the scheme.
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Gateway to Your Archives Delving into Digital
This film has been created by Explore York Libraries & Archives to help you identify, manage and use your community archive.
This film looks at what digital records are, the format you can store your records in, how you name those files and, with help from the Digital Inclusion Manager at Explore, looks at the basics of social media.
Created by John Phillips and the staff at Explore York Libraries & Archives.
'York 800' Exhibition, York, July 2012
'York 800' - A City Making History'. This exhibition celebrates 800 years of York's history and brings to life a whole series of previously hidden away documents from the city's archives. The exhibition is York Explore Library Learning Centre.
The unofficial official guide to the University of York
In this short video, find out all you need to know about how the University works and where you fit in, before you get here as a new undergraduate student.
Welcome to York!
Illustration and animation: Hugo Brook,
Production and narration: Tim Ngwena,
5 Reasons to study at the Centre for Medieval Studies
Combining world-renowned expertise and research in Medieval Art and Architecture, Archaeology, Literature, and History, the Centre for Medieval Studies offers a truly interdisciplinary Medieval Studies experience.
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York Libraries on The Politics Show - Yorkshire and Humber 05.12.10
Councillor James Alexander debates with the Lib Dem Council leader about library services on the BBC's Politics Show.
Gateway to Your Archives - Storing Your Archives
This film has been created by Explore York Libraries & Archives to help community groups to identify, manage and use archives.
This video looks at the different risks to archives, shelving and packaging options, different storage solutions, and how to deposit archives at Explore York.
Created by John Phillips and the staff at Explore York Libraries & Archives.
Explore Media Digital Story: Roadshows and Workshops
Residents of York were offered the chance to find out how to create media content through a series of open events in early 2010.
A series of three roadshows and 20 workshops demonstrated to members of the public and representatives of charity and voluntary groups practical skills in aspects such as film-making, film editing, blogging, podcasting and photography.
This digital story uses photographs taken at three of these events; firstly, a Social Networking workshop at Clifton Library, secondly, a roadshow event at Tang Hall Library and finally, a Film-Making workshop at Tang Hall Library.
The soundtrack on this clip is Cardiac Oak by York-based band Idle Jack and the Big Sleep, which the guys have kindly allowed us permission to use for this digital story.
Fiona Williams, Head of Libraries and Hertitage - City of York Council
City of York Council - Libraries and Aviva partnership
British Awards for Storytelling Excellence (B.A.S.E) 2012
The First British Awards for Storytelling Excellence held at York Explore Library, September 2012. Supported by Phrase Arts.
Your essential guide to life as a York St John student
Reformation England and the ‘Sense’ of Loss
Public lecture at the University of York by Dr Emma Wells on Wednesday 3rd December 2014.
The greatest sufferer of the ‘puritanisation’ enforced on traditional religion by the 16th-century Reformation was the English church building, particularly the major cult sites, whose devotional infrastructure was radically changed as a result.
The sensorially stimulating performatory delights of late-medieval Catholic religion were replaced; not only the synaesthetic interplay, but the olfactory, kinaesthetic, audible, haptic and even visuality of faith was dramatically scaled down, and emphasis transferred to the supremacy of the Word as proffered only through sight and sound. The eye of faith literal was replaced by the eye of faith lateral.
A major consequence of the Reforms was the sudden loss of ‘interactive’ worship and thus an ultimate censoring of the sensory. The consequential sense of loss will be explored by assessing the impact of the continual revision and adaptation of the saintly infrastructure of the English cathedral-church.
Focus will be centred upon the culture of materiality by taking each element of the pilgrimage church – including documentary, material, and archaeological evidence – to explore how the continual reduction in the role of the senses affected the ability to interact with and fully experience what had been the main pillar of late-medieval religion: the cults of the saints.
Inside the New York Public Library: The Maps Collection
Maps show us something that often times is gone... they relate us to a long arch of history, sometimes at a very specific level, so they place us both in space, and in time. - Matthew Knutzen
The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the world’s premier map collections in terms of size, scope, unique holdings, diversity and intensity of use. Established in 1898, our holdings include more than 433,000 sheet maps and 20,000 books and atlases published between the 15th and 21st centuries. The collections range from the global to the local scale and support the learning and research needs of a wide variety of users.
Learn more at nypl.org/maps
The Golden Age of Northumbria
Explore the Continental connections that caused centres of learning to flourish in Northumbria towards the end of the seventh century.
Learn more on our Anglo-Saxons website bl.uk/anglo-saxons.
1619 and the Making of America
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress convened a symposium that brought together respected scholars to explore the intricate encounters of Africans, Europeans and native people during this significant period in America's history. In 1619, a Dutch ship with about 20 Africans on board entered a port at the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia. This event is known as the arrival of the first recorded Africans to English North America. Their historic arrival, however, marked the beginning of a trend in colonial America, in which the people of Africa were taken from their motherland and consigned to lifelong slavery.
From 1619 to 1650, during the life span of the first arriving Africans, racial discrimination emerged and chattel slavery would be codified into law. The symposium will ask questions related to the historical importance of these events in 1619. For example, who were the Africans who arrived in Virginia in 1619, where did they come from, what world did they bring with them? What emerged from Africans' engagement with indigenous Native American populations and their spiritual and cultural life ways, and what is the enduring legacy of this encounter today?
The event also featured a display of treasures and historical items from the Library of Congress' collections related to the early Americas. The symposium was held in collaboration with the Middle Passage Project of the College of William & Mary, the Virginia Commonwealth's 2019 Commemoration and Norfolk State University.
Speaker Biography: Joanne M. Braxton is 2015 David M. Larson Fellow in spirituality and health at the John W. Kluge Center and the director of the Middle Passage Project at the College of William & Mary.
Speaker Biography: Robert Trent Vinson is Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings professor at the College of William & Mary.
Speaker Biography: Cassandra Newby-Alexander is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and director of the Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center for African Diaspora Studies at Norfolk State University and co-chair of Virginia's 2019 Commemoration's First Africans to English North America committee.
Speaker Biography: Lynette Lewis Allston is chief and tribal council chair of the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia, one of 11 officially recognized by the Commonwealth.
For transcript and more information, visit
FRIENDLY YOUNG GOAT at Windmill City Farm - Bristol UK
Windmill Hill City Farm is a charity that provides recreation, education and therapy using food, farming and the environment as a theme.
City Farming:
City farms are agricultural plots in urban areas, which involve people working with animals and plants to produce food. City farms are usually community-run gardens which aim to improve community relationships and offer an awareness of agriculture and farming to people who live in urbanized areas.
City farms are important sources of food security for many communities around the globe. City farms vary in size from small plots in private yards to larger farms that occupy a number of acres. In 1996, a United Nations report estimated there are over 800 million people worldwide who grow food and raise livestock in cities.[7] Although some city farms have paid employees, most rely heavily on volunteer labour, and some are run by volunteers alone. Other city farms operate as partnerships with local authorities.
During the 1960s a number of community gardens were established in the United Kingdom, influenced by the community garden movement in the United States.[citation needed] The first city farm was set up in 1972 in Kentish Town, London. It combined farm animals with gardening space, an addition inspired by children's farms in the Netherlands. Other city farms followed across London and the United Kingdom. In Australia, several city farms exist in various capital cities. In Melbourne, the Collingwood Children's Farm was established in 1979 on the Abbotsford Precinct Heritage Farmlands (the APHF), the oldest continually farmed land in Victoria, farmed since 1838.
In 2010, New York City saw the building and opening of the world's largest privately owned and operated rooftop farm, followed by an even larger location in 2012.[8] Both were a result of municipal programs such as The Green Roof Tax Abatement Program[9] and Green Infrastructure Grant Program.[10]
Learning Resource Centre:
Learning Resource Centre (LRC) is a term which is used in the United Kingdom to describe a type of library that exists within an educational setting such as Secondary Schools, Further Education Colleges and Universities. LRC can also stand for Library Resource Centre and in some cases Learning Resource Centre has been shortened to Learning Centre. Learning Resource Centres are similar to a Hybrid library.
Overview
These centres contain traditional educational resources such as books, journals, software and audio/visual materials, but they also exist to promote electronic information resources. Examples of these are subscription electronic journals, databases, free websites and other web based resources...
United States:
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America (/əˈmɛrɪkə/), is a federal republic[16][17] composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.[fn 6] Forty-eight states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries.[19]
At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2)[20] and with over 324 million people, the United States is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area,[fn 7] and the third-most populous. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city is New York City; twelve other major metropolitan areas—each with at least 4.5 million inhabitants—are Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Riverside.