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Sunderland was also recognised by London University as a centre for its BEng (Bachelor of Engineering) degree in 1934. During the Second World War, Sunderland ran special courses for the armed forces and the Ministry of Labour. In the 1960s, a PDP-8 hybrid computer was installed at the Chester Road site. There was also an Elliot Brothers 803B ...
Sunderland College, officially City of Sunderland College, [1] is a further education and higher education college based in Sunderland, North East England. The enrolment includes around 6,300 part-time learners and approximately 4,800 full-time students. [ 2 ]
St Peter's is the home of The Sir Tom Cowie Campus at the University of Sunderland on the north bank of the River Wear. It is named after the adjacent St Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth . It is also the name of the Tyne and Wear Metro Station nearest to the campus, which is next to Wearmouth Bridge .
Copac (originally an acronym of Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues) was a union catalogue which provided free access to the merged online catalogues of many major research libraries and specialist libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland, plus the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales. [1]
The library moved in 1995 to the new City Library and Arts Centre on Fawcett Street (occupying part of the former Binns Department Store). [11] The relocation left more space for museum exhibitions. The new City Library Arts Centre also houses the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art , renowned as one of the leading forums for emerging artists ...
Research Libraries UK (RLUK) (formerly CURL) [1] comprises 35 university libraries, 3 national libraries, and the Wellcome Collection in the United Kingdom and Ireland. [2] Its aim is to increase the ability of research libraries to share resources among themselves.
Library Hub Discover is a union catalog operated by Jisc (jisc.ac.uk). It replaces Copac and SUNCAT . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its user interface is centred around a simple search engine -like query box.
This is despite a £250million capital development budget for the University [16] and will shutter the centre, which is a heritage and history of glassmaking at Sunderland since the 7th century. [15] As a consequence, the University announced on 22 March 2024 that its glass and ceramics academic programme will close in summer 2026.