Striking a balance between culture and fun: 'Quality' meets hitman genre in 'In Bruges'

This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in New Review of Film and Television Studies, 9(2), 132 - 151, 2011, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17400309.2011.556934.This paper gives an analysis of In Bruges (2008) that situates the film as a hybrid product offering a mixture of signifiers of cinematic ‘quality’ and ‘lower’ genre ingredients. This paper also considers the extent to which In Bruges offers a combination of tonal registers in which irony and detachment, as markers of distinction, are blended with a more mainstream-oriented appeal to emotional engagement on the part of the viewer, and considers how this might be related to the broader social and industrial contexts in which it appeared

Data Vault and HQDM Principles

The paper explores applicability of high quality data modeling (HQDM)principles for data vault modelin

Audit of walk-in access for members of the public to online resources at higher education and further education libraries in the South West of England

This SWRLS-funded project aims to analyse and evaluate the extent to which Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE) libraries across the South West region of the United Kingdom provide walk-in access to electronic resources.The information presented within this report is derived from the findings of a survey questionnaire of librarians from across the South West region. Findings of the survey reveal that in the majority of the six institutions that provide walk-in access, the service is not actively promoted. Potential audiences are not actively identified. Information about walk-in services and which resources are available to use within HE or FE in the region is currently hard to discover. There does appear to be some desire to provide walk-in access but the report identifies IT difficulties and legal issues over licences as particular barriers to implementation

Inspiring library partnerships: Evaluation of a unique reciprocal borrowing scheme between Higher Education and local authorities in the West of England

The SWRLS Open Doors project was a partnership between LibrariesWest (led by South Gloucestershire Library Service) and UWE Bristol Library Services and funded by SWRLS (South Western Regional Library Service). The aim was to pilot a reciprocal borrowing scheme between public and academic libraries using existing cards, i.e. public library cards in the academic library and university ID cards in the public libraries. The pilot looked at the scheme in terms of the following:the ease with which it was to set up,its limitations,barriers or obstacles and how these could be overcome,how popular it was both with staff and customers (i.e. members of the public or UWE staff and students).The report details the way in which the pilot was run, considers information from other higher and further education institutions and relevant literature, looks at other schemes in the UK and outlines the issues that were identified. The users of the scheme were surveyed – staff and customers – and their responses analysed.The report concludes that the reciprocal use of existing library cards between institutions and public libraries in a geographical area:was relatively simple once set up,was appreciated by all those who participated,had few teething problems,has had no appreciable impact on the availability of academic stock to UWE students,increased public library as well as academic library usage by target groups, e.g. school students 16 years and over,enabled the public library service to provide a significantly better offer of resources to its community,especially those who needed access to specialised stock not normally available in a general public library service.The Project Board recommends that this reciprocal borrowing arrangement continues between UWE and LibrariesWest and that other similar partnerships would benefit where they are geographically linked.The partners in this project plan to continue the project and to monitor it using the statistics and data monitoring used to assess its success and to give it prominence in University and public library / schools promotional material at the start of each academic year.Further information concerning this SWRLS Open Doors reciprocal borrowing project can be obtained by looking at the project website or by emailing [email protected]

QAA Subject Benchmark Statement - Land, Construction, Real Estate and Surveying

This document is a Subject Benchmark Statement for Land, Construction, Real Estate and Surveying that defines what can be expected of graduates in the subjects, in terms of what they might know, do and understand at the end of their studies