Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse

Just a reminder that there won’t be a pickup from our Remote Store this Thursday (Christmas Eve), though Peirson will be open until noon.

Our next collection from the Remote Store will be Monday 4th January 2010. Happy New Year!

Santa Claus is Coming… to Restricted Loan

 

Good news for anyone needing to use Restricted Loan items over the Christmas break: if you take out any Restricted Loan item any time after 5pm on Wednesday 23rd,  you don’t need to bring it back until Monday 4th January. That turns a 5-hour Restricted Loan item into a 10-day loan!

You must have been good boys and girls this year.

IT’S CHRISSSSSSSSTMAS!

 

Are YOU hanging up your stocking on the wall? Like Noddy, we are, but that doesn’t mean we’re not still offering services over the festive period. Peirson Library is open right up until noon on Thursday 24^th December. We then close so that we can enjoy an egg nog or two and we’ll be open again as normal from 9am on Saturday 2^nd January.

 

Please note that the PC rooms EE G169 and EE G031 will be available for students to use right throughout the Christmas period. Security staff will be available to open the rooms.

And then for two weeks – between 11^th January and 22^nd January (inclusive) – the Peirson Building will be open right up until midnight.

ILS wishes you all a Happy Christmas and successful New Year!

Planned system maintenance this Sunday (13th December)

 

This Sunday is one of our bimonthly scheduled systems maintenance days. All University ICT systems are ‘at risk’ between 8 am and 6 pm on Sunday while work is in progress, though this does not mean that all systems will be unavailable on that day.

Witness the true power of the Dark Side

“internet searches are searching only 0.03% … of the [total web] pages available.”

Beckett, A. (Thursday 26th November 2009) The dark side of the internet. The Guardian. [Online] Available from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/26/dark-side-internet-freenet [Accessed 26th November 2009]

Take a look at Andy Beckett’s article on The dark side of the internet. And if you want to learn a bit more about the other 99.97% of the web (the legal bits of it anyway), you may just want to talk to your Academic Liaison Librarian.

Hello. And goodbye.

First of all, hello to NHS Evidence, the new and shiny replacement for the National Library for Health. This site was launched this week and offers a really simple way to access NHS guidelines, evidence and various other bits of information. Very easy to use (think Google) and links to the full text where available.

Secondly, goodbye (for a while) from me. I’m off on maternity leave until next April, leaving you in the very safe pair of hands that is Clive Kennard. So all have a great summer and enjoy the new academic year when it comes. I’ll be thinking of you

Cheers, Alison.

Bye bye National Library for Health

As of tomorrow the National Library for Health will change. Throughout April and beyond content will move to NHS Evidence “a web-based service that will help people find, access and use high-quality clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practice”.

Keep an eye out for lots of changes. NHS Evidence is set to cover both health and social care and will release more and more new material as time goes on. The new site goes live on 30th April and will include specialist libraries and, as the name suggests, a focus on evidence.

Emerald Management Xtra

The Emerald web site will be unavailable for up to 2 hours on Friday between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. due to essential maintenance work aimed at providing a more stable platform for users.

New digital version of Blueprint Magazine now available

The digital version of Blueprint is now available at http://www.wdis.co.uk/blueprint/ A separate user name and password is needed to access this. Please ask at the Enquiry Desk for these.

Archival Sound Recordings

The Archival Sound Recordings  is an audio resource provided by the British Library. It includes over 12,000 recordings covering a broad range of disciplines including art and design, social and political studies, music, literature and history and including classical and world music, oral history and public debates, wildlife and environmental sounds. You can play or download the audio files.

There is also a link on the PERI electronic resources lists for Art, English, Drama, History, Sociology and Media.