New Sports Coaching E-Books

You can access two new E-books on sports coaching via  E-Resources and Dawson Books. 

These are: The Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching   and   Introduction to Sports Coaching 

Print copies of both titles are on order.

New African and Curly Hair Type Book

Loan copies of Hairdressing for African and Curly Hair Types: from a cross cultural perspective, Gittens, are now available.      

New Online Sport and Sport Therapy Resource

    
You now have access to SportDiscus with full-text access to 500 sports and sports medicine journal titles as this has been added to our online resources. It can be found behind the EbscoHost link in the E-Resources list, so make sure you visit the Ebscohost database when you are looking for information for assignments. If you are a returning student and have used Human Kinetic journals in the past, you will be pleased to hear that Human Kinetic titles are included in SportDiscus.

Great Birmingham Run 2014

The Bupa Great Birmingham Run will be taking place on Sunday19th October. This was formerly known as the Birmingham Half Marathon and was first staged in 2008.You'll have to be quick if you want to enter the race, as entries will be closing soon. See the event site for further details. You can see information about the course here.

Hello and Welcome

Just to say a big 'hello' to all new Beauty Therapy Management, Sports Therapy, Sports Management, Spa
Management, and Specialist Hair and Media Make-up students just starting at UCB!
I am your Subject Librarian so I will probably be speaking to your tutor group at a Library tutorial session to tell you about all our wonderful Library resources in a few weeks time. If you want to call in and say hello or ask me about Library resources you can find me in Richmond House Library, and my desk is to the left of the entrance door.

New Book

Loan copies of 3D Printing: for artists, designers and makers, Hoskins, are now available.

The Women's Football Show

Watch BBC 3 on Monday 22nd September at 7pm to see The Women's Football Show.  Two of the developments taking place that are up for discussion in this programme by presenter Jacqui Oatley and England captain Steph Houghton, are Chelsea's bid for Super League glory and the new manager at Arsenal.