Category Archives: Resources

New CSAD Library Blog

Image of Phonograph by Anon courtesy of www.bridgemaneducation.com The new CSAD library blog is now live and takes the place of the previous CSAD Library web pages. It features the familiar New Book Display listings as well as the latest … Continue reading

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First Cardiff WordPress User Group Meeting

The first WordPress Users Wales meeting is taking place next Monday, 28 November 2011, at 6.30pm in the Zen Room at Uniglam’s Atrium Building. WordPress is a very popular open source (free) blogging and content management system that can be … Continue reading

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PressBooks Self Publishing Platform

PressBooks is an online book publishing platform, that makes it easy for you and your friends to author books, and to generate clean, well-formatted books in multiple outputs: .epub, print-ready PDF, InDesign-ready XML, and of course HTML. PressBooks is still … Continue reading

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Art Theory Lite iPhone App

Ever wish you had something to help you navigate through the mine field of theory you have to study when doing a degree Art? Art Theory Lite has been developed with input from Lecturers in Art & Design as a … Continue reading

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A Practical Guide to Social Media – Part 3: Facebook

Using Facebook to converse, build a fanbase, draw people in to what you do – Jesse Ringham, Digital Communications Manager at Tate, in conversation with Charlotte Frost on how artists and arts organisations can get the most out of Facebook. … Continue reading

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A Practical Guide to Social Media – Part 2: Twitter

The second video in A-N’s Practical Guide to Social Media has just been published. For this video guide, Katy Beale and Charlotte Frost discuss micro-blogging with particular reference to Twitter and how it can be used for research, marketing and … Continue reading

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Image Library iPhone App

UWIC Library subscribes to a huge image database called Bridgeman Education. UWIC staff and students can access the images via the Learning Portal’s Electronic Library. There is now an iphone app allowing you to search the database, view images and … Continue reading

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