Mouthwatering cookbooks in the LRC

Did you know that the LRC at Guildford College has the cookbooks from some of the world's best restaurants in stock?

Find inspiration from some of the top chefs and see what it takes to get that elusive Michelin star (or two). A selection of titles can be seen below along with some tasters of what they contain.

You can also find the full list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants on the award website http://www.theworlds50best.com/

Don't forget you can search our online catalogue, Heritage, to find what other recipe and cookbooks we have on offer.

Noma

Best restaurant in the world 2012

Alinea  
Best restaurant in North America 2011

Mugaritz   
Number 3 in the World's Best Restaurant Awards 2012

Eleven Madison Park  
Best Restaurant in North America 2013

Book Swap at GC LRC

To celebrate the advent of summer the LRC at Guildford College is holding a Book Swap. Please  bring along a fiction book to swap and find something new to read during the holidays!

When: Thursday 13 June, 10 am – 4 pm

Where: Guildford College LRC

If you have any unwanted fiction books (in reasonable condition) that you would like to donate to the book swap, they will be most welcome.

Top e-books in May

Business takes top spot plus 5 other places in May's top ten e-books by pages viewed with Beauty Therapy, Tourism, and Carpentry filling the other 4.  Business has retaken control of the download chart with all the top download titles going to them.

Here's May's chart:

3044   BTEC Level 3 National Business Book 1
981     Armstrong's handbook of human resource management practice
           (12th ed.)
934     BTEC Level 3 Business Book 2
679     Beauty therapy. - 2nd ed.
644     Knowledge management
375     Travel & tourism. BTEC Level 3 National Book 1
333     Introduction to banking   
277     Carpentry and joinery Level 1
237     Armstrong's handbook of human resource management practice
           (11th ed.)
224     Aromatherapy: therapy basics
   

The top downloaded books for May were:

12  Armstrong's handbook of human resource management practice
9    Knowledge management
5    Marketing communications
5    Research methods for business
5    Project management
5    Armstrong's handbook of management and leadership

Half term opening hours

All three LRCS will be closed on the bank holiday:

Monday 27 May

Guildford College

Tuesday 28 May - Friday 31 May             9.30 - 4.30

Farnham College

Tuesday 28 May - Friday 31 May           CLOSED

Opening times may be subject to change at short notice so please check with the relevant LRC before travelling.

Self issue at GC LRC - what do you think?

Guildford LRC has now had its self issue kiosk installed for just over a month and it looks like staff and students are happy and impressed by our new system.

We have had over 970 issues, 803 returns and 89 renewals!

We also have a new drop box for items that need LRC Staff attention and a new trolley for returns.

Here are some of your comments about our new system please continue to let us know what you think!

"Quick, easy, fun!"

"Highly recommended! Easy, no fuss, quick and self-sufficient!"

"Pretty cool :)"

"Good, like ticket issued telling what you've taken out."

"FAB! We want more of them."

"Very impressive and great service."

"Very easy quick system! Useful receipt too! :)"

"Ohh fancy technology"

"More of them would be good, also to put a table next to it. Really easy to use."

If you haven't had a go yet why not pop in and see us? The LRC Staff are happy to show you what to do!

Top e-books in April

Business takes top spot plus 5 other places in April's top ten e-books by pages viewed with Beauty Therapy filling the other 4.  Counselling has taken over the download chart with 4 out of the top 5 going to them.

Here's April's chart:

2305   BTEC Level 3 National Business Book 1
1881   BTEC Level 3 Business Book 2 
1294   Beauty therapy. - 3rd ed.
699     Exploring corporate strategy: text & cases
488     Knowledge management
480     Beauty therapy. - 2nd ed.
340     Management. - 5th ed.   
291     Indian head massage in essence
255     Management and organisational behaviour
240     Aromatherapy: therapy basics
   

The top downloaded books for April were:

9   Supervising counsellors
7   Counselling and psychotherapy in organisational settings
7   Reflective practice in counselling and psychotherapy
6   Supervision in the helping professions
6   Marketing research

There were also 18 chapter/page range downloads from: BTEC Level 3 Business Book 2

Dawsonera - ebook website upgrade

A new look Dawsonera is coming soon and in preparation for this Dawsons will be working on the site on Wednesday 24 April.

On this day there will be two periods of 10 minutes when the site will be unavailable

• the first at 5.00 pm
• the second at 7.00 pm

The new look website will begin to be available from around 10.00 pm the same day and will not affect access for most people.  However, if you are using Dawsonera at the switchover time you will be logged off and will see the new look site when you log back in.

Old Home Page

New Home Page


New Online Reader

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