Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Information resources for Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism


"SPRIG represents all those who have an interest in information relating to hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism. SPRIG is relevant to those who work in libraries and information services, research students, academics, publishers and to practitioners in the field who use information resources" (SPRIG website, 27th May 09)


Find out more about SPRIG and their annual event on 19th June on eTOURISM and TECHNOLOGY in Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism at http://www.sprig.org.uk/


Tuesday, 19 May 2009

TV Recordings: 23rd-29th May 2009

These television programmes will be recorded by your LIS team next week. They will be made available to borrow from Adsetts in DVD format, as well as being viewable on campus using the VOD (Video On Demand) service. To use the VOD service just search for the individual programme title on the SHU Library Catalogue, then click on the VOD link.

If there are any other upcoming programmes you would like us to record please contact Geoff or any other member of your LIS team (see the Contact Information section of this blog).

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Title: The Great British Foreign Holiday
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 26 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Programme Type: Documentary
Performers: Mark Benton
Description: Mark Benton narrates a clip show looking at the
Brits when they go abroad, somewhere he claims to
be 'far away - outlandish, exotic and scary.
Frankly, we're terrified of it.'
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Title: 10 Things You Need to Know About Losing Weight
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 27 May 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Programme Type: Documentary
Director: Chris Salt
Description: Documentary. Every year millions of people in
Britain try to lose weight, and most. We are
bombarded with advice about dieting and the
latest slimming fads. But what really works?
Medical journalist Michael Mosley investigates
the latest scientific breakthroughs in slimming,
uncovering ten of the simplest ways you can shed
those pounds. From the slimming secrets of soup
to our brain's response after skipping meals,
what he discovers may change the way you think
about diets and losing weight
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Title: Feasts
Episode: Japan
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 27 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Programme Type: Documentary
Director: Kari Lia
Description: Food writer Stefan Gates immerses himself in
extraordinary feasts and festivals. In Japan,
helps a Shinto priestess carry a wooden penis
around a suburb of Tokyo and joins the Baby Sumo
festival where parents compete to get their
children to cry first, to give them good luck for
the rest of their lives. Finally, he embarks on
the most amazing event of his life - the Naked
Man festival, which involves much drinking,
eating and nudity, as traditional Japanese
reserve is literally stripped away
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Title: The Apprentice
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 27 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Programme Type: Documentary
Category: Reality TV
Description: Reality series. Sir Alan sets the teams the task
of selling on live TV. From thousands of
products, they must select the ones they think
they can sell best during just one hour of live
television. The candidates all set out to prove
what they are made of, but Sir Alan is not in the
market for a TV presenter; he wants someone with
real business flair. When the cameras roll and
the candidates go live, even the more experienced
sales people discover being natural does not
always come naturally
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Title: The Apprentice: You're Fired
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 27 May 09, 22:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Programme Type: Documentary
Category: Reality TV
Description: Companion discussion show to the Apprentice, with
Adrian Chiles. Meet the candidate who, in a task
involving selling products on a shopping channel,
failed to impress the boss. Counting the cost of
what went wrong are Sir Alan's aide Margaret
Mountford, comedian Rufus Hound and shopping
channel owner Hasfa Abubacker
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Title: Keep It in the Family
Episode: Austin's Department Store
Broadcast Info: Thursday 28 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Programme Type: Documentary
Director: Chris Williams
Performers: Lesley Sharp
Description: Series looking at family businesses where the next
generation is unwilling to take over. Established
in 1830, Austin's of Derry is the oldest
department store in the world. Luke Hasson, the
store's 66-year-old owner, is desperate to
retire. The eldest of his five daughters,
39-year-old Sinead, runs a successful business in
recruitment, and her only retail experience is as
a teenage Saturday girl. Is she willing to give
up her life in London to help save the family
firm in Northern Ireland?

Wednesday, 13 May 2009

Top 50 management articles

Emerald Group Publishing Limited has announced the winners of its
2008 Citation of Excellence Awards. Now in their thirteenth year, these distinguished annual awards recognize the 50 outstanding articles published by the top 400 management journals in the world.

Each year the Emerald Management Reviews Accreditation Board, comprised of management experts from industry and academia including Cary Cooper, Philip Kotler, Darrell K. Rigby, and B. Joseph Pine II, selects the world's top 400 management titles. Independent subject experts then make a thorough and rigorous assessment of every article in each of these journals and, each year, 50 outstanding articles are singled out for a Citation of Excellence Award. Authors of the winning articles receive an official certificate and badge to display on their work. The award brings with it peer recognition and, frequently, increases in research funding.

A full list of the 2008 winners, as well as lists of previous winners, is available at:
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/reviews/awards.htm

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Next Week's TV Recordings

Here is a list of TV programmes that the Learning & Information Sevices (LIS) team will be recording for the Sheffield Business School next week (16th - 22nd May 2009).

If there are any other programmes you'd like us to record, which are not on this list, please contact Geoff or any other member of the LIS team (see the Contact Information section on this blog).

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Title: Dispatches
Episode: Britain's Bankers: Still Cashing In
Broadcast Info: Monday 18 May 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Current affairs series. Jane Moore investigates
the British bankers who helped cause the credit
crunch and who have been amply rewarded for their
failings. She shows the extraordinary number of
ways bankers were remunerated, from a variety of
incentives and huge pension pots, to funds for
'extras' such as dentist bills

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Title: Pay Drop Britain: Tonight
Broadcast Info: Monday 18 May 09, 20:00 (30 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: Would you take a pay drop to save your job? Fiona
Foster reports on the companies cutting wages or
hours to stave off redundancies. And what are
your rights if you find yourself in this
position?

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Title: The Trouble with Working Women
Episode: Why Can't a Woman Succeed Like a Man?
Broadcast Info: Monday 18 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: In the first of two programmes, Sophie Raworth and
Justin Rowlatt investigate what we really think of
women at work. Why do men still hold the top jobs?
Can women have it all? Has gender equality gone
too far? Sophie and Justin track down a
businesswoman who refuses to employ females of
child-bearing age, go head-to-head on a
testosterone-fuelled trading floor, head for the
MET's shooting range, and quiz a professor who is
overseeing the world's largest study into the
effects of childcare

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Title: The Trouble with Working Women
Episode: Why Can't a Woman Earn As Much As a Man?
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 19 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: In the second of two provocative programmes,
Sophie Raworth and Justin Rowlatt look at pay.
The pair meet professionals, mums and academics,
and do some of their own tests, asking whether
sexism is at play or if there are more complex
reasons for the fact that, several decades after
the Equal Pay Act, there is still a pay gap
between men and women

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Title: Blood, Sweat and Takeaways
Episode: Tuna
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 19 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC3
Description: Six young British food consumers go to live and
work alongside the millions of people in south
east Asia's food production industries. They
tackle Indonesia's tuna industry in Bitung on the
island of Sulawesi. In the UK, we consume over a
billion tins of tuna a year and Bitung's
canneries supply to many supermarkets and
sandwich chains. The Brits live with tuna workers
in basic communities, endure the heat in the
canneries and struggle with the harsh realities
of life on a traditional tuna boat

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Title: Feasts
Episode: India
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 20 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Food writer Stefan Gates immerses himself in some
of the most extraordinary feasts and festivals on
earth. He makes a journey across India to discover
how feasts and celebration both divide and bring
together a turbulent nation. He is shocked to see
how much extravagance and social engineering there
is in an expensive showpiece Rajasthani Hindu
wedding. In Kerala, he experiences the
bewildering festival of Onam, a Hindu celebration
that brings this massive state of millions of
people together

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Title: The Apprentice
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 20 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Reality series. With just seven candidates
remaining, Sir Alan sends the teams to London's
Olympia, to sell baby products at the country's
biggest baby show. Success depends on choosing
the right products, and the candidates have one
day to check out a range of innovative new baby
products. Failure to pick the right one could
cost them the task. With hundreds of other
exhibitors at the show, competition is fierce.
Can the candidates adapt their usual hard-sell
techniques?

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Title: The Apprentice: You're Fired
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 20 May 09, 22:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Companion discussion show to the Apprentice, with
Adrian Chiles. Meet the candidate who, in a task
to select products at The Baby Show, fell on the
nursery slopes. Counting the cost of what went
wrong are comedian Hugh Dennis, singer and
performer Michael Ball and the MD of JoJo Maman
Bebe, Laura Tenison

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Title: Keep It in the Family
Episode: Forest Farm
Broadcast Info: Thursday 21 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Twenty-eight-year-old Sarah manages a delicatessen
in Glasgow's trendy West End, but now the future
of her family's 400-acre dairy farm in Kent rests
on her shoulders. The farm was established by
Sarah's 98-year-old grandfather Robert, who still
lives on the estate. Sarah has a week to learn
about milking, feeding, animal husbandry and the
running of the business before deciding whether
to leave her city life to keep the family
business alive

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Thursday, 7 May 2009

New Internationalisation Working Group

Learning and Information Services has recently set up a new Internationalisation Working Group. We aim to promote best practice in LIS support for international students and ensure that Faculty internationalisation activity at SHU is supported by LIS and underpinned by provision of appropriate learning resources. The group includes colleagues from the International Office and Student Support Services, and we will be seeking input from international students and staff working with international students.

Any comments you have on this area of work are welcome, and as the work of the group progresses, we will feed back via this blog!

Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Licensed to Record!

The University Library is licensed to record UK broadcast television programmes for educational use on campus by staff and students of Sheffield Hallam University (terms and conditions of the ERA licence can be found at: http://www.era.org.uk/TermandCond.html ). It is currently standard practice for us to make these programmes available on both DVD, which can be borrowed from the library, and VOD (Video on Demand). You can access the VOD service on campus by searching for the specific programme on the Library Catalogue at: http://catalogue.shu.ac.uk/

Below is a list of programmes recorded last week (25th April - 1st May 2009) for the Sheffield Business School. If there are any upcoming programmes you would like us to record, please contact Geoff, or any of the Learning and Information Services SBS Team (see the Contact Information section on this blog).

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Title: Dispatches: Crash: How Long Will It Last?
Broadcast Info: Monday 27 Apr 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: After the financial crash, Britain is facing
economic catastrophe. In the second of a two-part
documentary, economist and author Will Hutton
gives the definitive insider's account of what
went wrong. Hutton reveals how warnings of the
impending financial disaster were ignored, and
looks at what can be done to lift the UK out of
the biggest recession in living memory

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Title: Hell's Kitchen
Broadcast Info: Monday 27 Apr 09, 20:00 (30 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: As the two celebrity finalists gear up for their
final service, Marco Pierre White asks them to
prepare an exquisite meal each for a specially
invited table of diners. Whose meal will prove
most popular and give them the edge for tonight's
finale? Presented by Claudia Winkleman

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Title: Hell's Kitchen
Broadcast Info: Monday 27 Apr 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: After two weeks of Hell, Marco Pierre White's two
finalists prepare to battle it out in the grand
finale and get the chance to apply everything
they have learned to a frenetic last service.
Claudia Winkleman will then announce the winner
of Hell's Kitchen 2009, as voted for by the
public

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Title: The Speaker
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 28 Apr 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Five teenagers have made it through to the
semi-finals of the contest, but only one of them
can become The Speaker. The teenagers face their
toughest challenge yet. They are mentored in the
art of inspiration by their biggest critics, the
three judges - Jo Brand, John Amaechi and Jeremy
Stockwell. The Speakers gather at City Hall in
London where they will be challenged not only to
speak to an audience, but to the nation. Their
speeches will be beamed to big screens in major
cities all over the country

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Title: Desperately Hungry Housewives
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 28 Apr 09, 22:35 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Anorexia and bulimia were once more commonly
associated with teenage girls but are now on the
increase among older women. This film goes into
the seemingly perfect world of four housewives
who are struggling with the fallout from their
eating disorders. They may seem to have it all
with their nice houses, perfect children and
middle class lives, but behind the wisteria, they
are having a constant battle with their food and
eating. Jane in her early fifties now has the
bone density of a 92 year old; 36-year-old Zoe
has turned to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to
reclaim her life from anorexia; bubbly Tracey is
bulimic and spends her nights binging and
vomiting in secret from her children; and young
mum Georgia tries hard to lose her baby weight,
but will her obsession with weight see her
falling back into the anorexic danger zone?

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Title: The Speaker
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 29 Apr 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: It's the final and the three remaining teenagers
get to go on the trip of a lifetime as they
travel with Unicef to research children's rights
in Malawi, southern Africa. The Speakers meet
their African peers and study the right to
survival, education and water. It's an emotional
journey. On their return, they step on to the
stage for the final time and speak about their
experiences in front of a packed audience. For
the three Speakers it's the culmination of months
of work, but only one can win the title of The
Speaker

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Title: The Apprentice
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 29 Apr 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Reality series. The battle to become Sir Alan's
next apprentice heats up as the remaining
candidates reach the half-way mark. Both teams
hit the streets of London in a race against time
to value and sell ten items of bric-a-brac,
including a medical skeleton, a box of books and
a pair of vintage shoes. Warned not to take
anything at face value, they must determine the
real worth of their goods and filter the hidden
gem from the red herrings. Who will find
themselves in the firing line?

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Title: The Apprentice: You're Fired
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 29 Apr 09, 22:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Companion discussion show to the Apprentice, with
Adrian Chiles. It's time to meet the candidate
who's counting the cost of failure after being
tasked with pricing and selling ten disparate
items. Comedian Al Murray, Antiques Roadshow
expert Hilary Kay and American financial guru
Alvin Hall get to the bottom of what went wrong,
as well as putting a value on the remaining
candidates

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Title: Professor Regan's...
Episode: Nursery

Broadcast Info: Thursday 30 Apr 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Professor Regan investigates the lucrative world
of children's products, from snack foods to
educational toys. Many children's products
exploit parental guilt as a marketing tool, but
Professor Regan finds out which foods really do
live up to the health claims they promise
, and
which toys meet the educational standards of
developmental psychologists. Along the way she
discovers why a cardboard box can be an ideal
learning tool, and why children's laptops are not
always as good as they seem

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Title: My Wall Street
Broadcast Info: Thursday 30 Apr 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: As the global recession hits America's financial
centre hard, filmmaker Bruce Goodison explores
the impact of the current economic crisis on
those who live in 'Wall Streets' around Britain.
Following the fortunes of individuals across the
country, the documentary analyses the impact of
the credit crunch on a range of British families

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Title: Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science
Broadcast Info: Thursday 30 Apr 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Documentary which explores the history of British
food science, taking a voyage through over a
century of petri-dishes, vitamins and E-numbers.
By the 1930s, George Orwell was complaining about
the chemical by-products in food, but when war
gave scientists a chance to remake the British
diet the improvement in the nation's health was
extraordinary. We meet the food scientist who
pioneered instant soup for Batchelors and
discover how Quorn was invented to prevent a
global food crisis

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Title: Around the World in 80 Trades
Broadcast Info: Thursday 30 Apr 09, 22:00 (65 mins)
Part 4 of 4
Channels: Channel 4
Description: City market analyst Conor Woodman quits his job
and travels around the world to trade a variety
of goods in an attempt to double his 25,000 pound
stake. Conor starts the final leg of his journey
on a Mexican beach, hoping to sell the 750
inflatable body boards he purchased in China and
400 bottles of tequila. On his final deal, Conor
throws caution to the wind and decides to gamble
all his money on Brazilian teak

New names

Congatulations to the Faculty on the formation of Sheffield Business School!

As you know, the team that supports all your library and information needs recently changed name from LITS Information Services Team to SLS (Student and Learning Services), and within SLS our team is now called Learning and Information Services.

We hope you like the new look blog, and look forward to supporting the staff and students in Sheffield Business School. Please feel free to post any comments or questions on the blog, and we will reply!