Greatest Hits - July 2023

Greatest Hits – Book award winners

This month our libraries are celebrating book award winners and shortlisted authors.  The categories are fiction/non-fiction/illustrations/poetry/adult literature/children and young people’s literature.

Here are some of the main book awards in the industry:

·         International Booker Prize

·         Rathbones Folio Prize

·         Dylan Thomas Prize

·         The Walter Scott Prize

·         The Yoto Carnegies award

We have 7 titles from the 2023 awards in our collection, including 4 of the named winners:

  

Winner of the International Booker Prize

https://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b2303513~S20

Winner of the non-fiction Rathbones Folio Prize

https://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b2303508~S20

Winner of the fiction Rathbones Folio Prize

https://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b2303503~S20

Winner of writing Yoto Carnegies Award

https://library.beds.ac.uk/record=b2303441~S20

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Lifelong Learning - June 2023

Spanish? Marathon running? Dressmaking? Woodwork? Learn something new with June’s celebration of Lifelong Learning! 

Our book displays at Luton and Bedford campuses this month cover a wide selection of subject areas and are filled with ideas to learn something new this summer.  You can find everything from How to be a Professional Makeup Artist: a comprehensive guide for beginners, to How to draw Manga: occult and horror, alongside Branding yourself: how to use social media to invent or reinvent yourself, and a Beginner’s guide to long distance running.  

We also have a selection of electronic resources available on Lifelong Learning:

Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive [electronic resource] / Staats, Bradley R. https://brum.beds.ac.uk/record=b2062000~S20

HBR's 10 must reads on lifelong learning (with bonus article "The Right Mindset for Success" with Carol Dweck) / Zenger, John H.   https://brum.beds.ac.uk/record=b2221899~S20

A-Z of lifelong learning [electronic resource] / Jonathan Tummons and Ewan Ingleby. https://brum.beds.ac.uk/record=b1637332~S20