SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Aberdeen University (01 Oct 12)
• Bath University (26 Sep 12)
• CONSER (10 Oct 12)
• Dundee University (04 Oct 12)
• King's College London (01 Oct 12)
• Southampton University (07 Oct 12)
• Trinity College Dublin (02 Oct 12)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Chocolate Week AND National Cake Week!

From the 8th to 14th October it is both Chocolate Week and National Cake Week. Perfect for those wanting comfort food to help keep away the cold, but not so good for those on a diet! Here are some cake and chocolate weird and wonderful titles.

• Baked & delicious : international classics to make at home.
• The baking sheet. 
• Baking with the American harvest. 
• Squires Kitchen bake school. 
• 2006 2011 World Outlook for Cake Mixes Made from Purchased Flour. 
• Annual review / The Biscuit, Cake, Chocolate & Confectionery Alliance. 
• Brazil cakes and pastries Datamonitor. 
• The “B.B.” Album of Cake Designs. [With plates.] 
• 2006-2011 World Outlook for Seasonal Chocolate Father’s Day Candy. 
• Archives of cocoa research. 
• Chocol8 Inc. 
• Chocolate addiction. 
• Cocoaroma. 
• Hotel Chocolat: Establishing a Market Presence with Super-Premium Chocolate. 
• Nestle & Cadbury Case Study: Adapting to the Growing Demand for Dark Chocolate. 
• Report of the cocoa conference. 
• Unwrapped / Cadbury Ltd. 
• Haribo Case Study: Reinvigorating the Sugar Confectionary Market by Focusing on Health & Comfort.

For more baking and confectionary titles take a look in SUNCAT.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Aberystwyth University (17 Sep 12)
• Birmingham University (22 Sep 12)
• British Library (28 Sep 12)
• Cambridge University (01 Oct 12)
• Cardiff University (26 Sep 12) 
• CONSER (03 Oct 12)
• Cranfield University (20 Sep 12)
• Durham University (01 Oct 12)
• Kent University (01 Oct 12)
• Liverpool University (28 Sep 12)
• Loughborough University (01 Oct 12)
• National Art Library (25 Sep 12)
• National Library of Scotland (01 Oct 12)
• Nottingham University (01 Oct 12)
• Open University (01 Oct 12)
• Robert Gordon University (01 Oct 12)
• St Andrews University (02 Oct 12)
• Senate House Libraries, University of London (20 Sep 12)
• School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London (12 Sep 12)
• University of the West of England (UWE) (23 Sep 12)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

James Bond Day!

Happy 50th Anniversary James Bond! Today (5th October) is James Bond Day , so here is the perfect excuse to bring to you James Bond titles found in SUNCAT. 

• 007 dossiers secrets.
• 007 extra : the newsletter of the James Bond 007 Fan Club.
• 007 spy files.
• Bondage / James Bond 007 Fan Club.
• Double-0-seven magazine.
• Goldeneye : the magazine of the Ian Fleming Foundation.
• The James Bond car collection.
• James Bond’s DB5.
• Shaken not stirred / a publication of the Ian Fleming Foundation.
• James Bond - 007 premiere crossword puzzles.
• James Bond for your eyes only

Your mission, should you accept it, is to search SUNCAT for more weird and wonderful espionage and secret intelligence titles. Report to M for debriefing when you are done, but make an appointment with Miss Moneypenny first!

Celebrate National Poetry Day

Today (4th October) is National Poetry Day. In celebration of this fact here are soem weird and wonderful poetry titles found in SUNCAT.

• Amethyst arsenic : poetry and art.
• Bad poetry quarterly.
• The Bibelot, a Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, Chosen in Part From Scarce Editions and Sources Not Generally Known.
• Bumble jacket miscellany : a miscellany for poetry and fiction.
• Coconut poetry magazine.
• Half drunk muse.
• Oddrot : the journal of funny bizarre and subversive poetry.
• Poetry is dead.
• Symtex & grimmer : a magazine of contemporary poetry.
• Waifs and strays. A terminal magazine of Oxford poetry.
• The ballot, a political poem, by a snob.
• Echoes of Gilgamesh the long poem magazine.
• TRUTH -LONDON- POEM-.
• Affection’s keepsake.
• Anarchist angel youth poetry quarterly.
• Brittle star.
• Cabinet of curiosities.
• Deliberately thirsty.
• Grilled flowers. Special issue series
• Hot gun!
• Moodswing.
• PigeonBike.
• Ploplop.
• Poetmeat.
• Poor old tired horse.
• The quiet feather.
• The Stinging fly.
• The ugly tree.
• Unmuzzled ox.
• Verbal abuse.
• Water from the moon.
• A wigman to wind the sun up.
• The Windless orchard.

 For more poetry titles and other weird and wonderful serials take a look at SUNCAT.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• CONSER (26 Sep 12)
• Edinburgh University (21 Sep 12)
• Liverpool University (21 Sep 12)
• Newcastle University (21 Sep 12)
• Oxford University (13 Sep 12)
• Southampton University (23 Sep 12)
• Sussex University (19 Sep 12)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

(Serial) match of the day – part 6

Here is the sixth and final post in the series of weird and wonderful football titles. Can you match the fanzine with the home nation?

• Two left feet. 
• Que sera sera. 
• The dragon has landed. 
• Haggis supper. 
• The Italian job. 
• There’s a wee spot in Europe. 

Here are some other football titles:

• Miss-kick.
• My favourite shirt. 
• Dial M for Merthyr. 
• Five jam parts. 
• The cage to the jungle. 
• Tomato soup and lentils. 
• Wonderful wedding venues in England and Wales : from castles to football clubs. 
• Off the ball. 
• United front. 
• Four Four Two: The Bobbing And Weaving Football Magazine. 
• Migrating Football Players, Transfer Fees & Migration Controls. 
• The Gladwish Land Sales ultimate book of non-league players. 
• Balls! : the alternative football annual. 
• Nothing to write home about : the magazine of the London Clarets. 
• Offensive line coaches handbook. 
• Where’s the bar? : an alternative guide to non-league football. 
• The effects of television on college football attendance. (Published 1950) 
• The duffle. 
• Football punk. 
• When the ball moves : the Burnley fanzine. 
• One minute to go. 
• League of their own : a guide to the mid-Wilts youth and minor football league.

More information on these titles can be found by searching SUNCAT. Also take a look at SUNCAT for more football serials  and other weird and wonderful titles.