Serious religion and the improvement of public manners : the scope and limitations of Evangelicalism in Hull 1770-1914.

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The churches and the iron and steel industry in Middlesbrough 1890-1914

This thesis surveys the rapid, growth of Middlesbrough, its basic Industry, and the establishment and growth of the Christian churches in the town between 1830 and 1914; but the work is particularly concerned with the years I89O-I9I4. It aims to discover the church's understanding of its mission in relation to the iron and steel industry and the society which it produced, in order to evaluate the church's successes and failures. The thesis begins with a summary of Christian social teaching in the second half of the nineteenth century to establish what ideas were current at national level (Chapter l). It proceeds to a study of Middlesbrough and its iron industry, as the environment with which the local churches had to contend (Chapter 2). The attitudes and activities of the churches are then examined in two chapters. The first of these (Chapter 3), discusses their institutional response in church extension, schools, hospitals, church life, missionary activity, and the 1904 religious census. The second (Chapter 4), considers the churches’ concern for personal morality, temperance, gambling, Sunday observance, the 1912 Church Congress, and the churches’ reactions to the iron and steel industry as the determining factor in the life of the community. The concluding chapter (Chapter 5), uses Richard Niebuhr's study, Christ and Culture, as a framework for a theological assessment of the church's work in Middlesbrough on the basis of what, in the earlier chapters, has been established historically

The politics of embedding: Library as a partner not support service.

The Library that considers itself to have the best services in the world may still find itself under-appreciated or – worse still – isolated, unless it delivers those services to its customers in a pro-active manner. Moreover, unless it actively engages with the strategic directions of both the over-arching institution and its individual units – the University and its academic Departments – it risks being ignored and marginalised from the core business of the institution. For too long libraries have, with a degree of modesty and satisfaction, considered themselves as ‘support services’ but now is the time to launch ourselves from the shadows and into the spotlight to take equal billing with academic staff. This paper outlines steps taken and success achieved by the University of Sheffield Library since taking a more collaborative approach to working with academic departments in 2003. Under the banner of a ‘New Partnership’, buy-in is being achieved at a departmental level, from the Head of Department and Director of Teaching, before focusing on the needs of individual modules. An holistic view of information resource provision is being developed, in particular emphasising the Library’s interest in matching information delivery to pedagogy. The emphasis is on delivering a greater proportion of materials directly to students electronically, while achieving a balance with print use in those disciplines where this is still important. The extensive use of electronic reading list software, providing links to any digital object, has revolutionised services, integrated with focused digitisation of full text, with print coursepacks and with the use of an Information Skills Module in the University’s VLE, developed in such a way as to facilitate embedding into academic modules. In conclusion, the paper returns to the importance of gaining an understanding and acknowledgement from the University’s senior management on the advantages of collaborative working so that the technique is recognised as strategically important for the institution: embedding at the institutional level has to be in place if embedding at the module or sub-module level is to be successful. Keywords: information literacy; learning and teaching

Aconseguir l’èxit mitjançant les aliances: la col·laboració universitària activa

La conferència se centra en les línies de col·laboració entre la biblioteca i les escoles i facultats de la Universitat de Sheffield que s’han desenvolupat al llarg dels últims quatre anys. Aquesta col·laboració s’ha materialitzat en nous serveis com els campus digitals, els materials docents, la digitalització de materials, els cursos per al desenvolupament de les habilitats informacionals, els dipòsits d’objectes d’aprenentatge… L’element clau a Sheffield ha estat el diàleg proactiu que s’ha establert entre el personal acadèmic i les biblioteques. Una línia de col·laboració i diàleg que s’ha estès a altres serveis de la universitat i que ha tingut un impacte molt positiu per als usuaris però també per a les persones que treballen a la universitat. Peter Stubley també farà una breu descripció del nou edifici d’Information Commons que s’ha inaugurat recentment a la universitat