17 June 2013

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

05 June 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.

04 June 2013

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