Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from the Library staff

The Library is now closed for Christmas and New Year. We will re-open on Thursday 3 January 2008.

Christmas in the Library

New books in the Library - 10th December

Added to the library recently have been books on economic law, sewer condition classification, fermentation microbiology, operations management and several other topics.

Two more copies of English-Arabic/Arabic-English translation: a practical guide, edited by Basil Hatim, are now available on week loan.

Some other choice titles include Mintzberg on management: inside our strange world of organizations, by Henry Mintzberg, and The evolution of 20th century architecture: a synoptic account, by Kenneth Frampton. Both have been added to Riccarton Library.

Two copies of the 5th edition of Project management: strategic design and implementation, by David I. Cleland and Lewis R. Ireland are now available. One copy is on 3 hour loan, and the other copy is a Week loan.

For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.

Information on how to place a reservation for a book is available.

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian

Christmas Vacation opening hours - change to hours previously announced

Christmas Vacation dates:
Saturday 8 December 2007 - Sunday 6 January 2008

During the vacation the Library will be open:

Riccarton: Monday - Friday 09.00 - 17.00
Martindale: Monday - Friday 09.00 - 16.45

Closed dates:
The University has announced that it will be closed on Monday 24 December.
Both Libraries will now close at the end of the day on Friday 21 December and re-open on Thursday 3 January 2008.

Merry Christmas!

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Catherine Ure
Subject Librarian

Enjoy the Christmas vacation

The Library staff wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Remember to return or renew all your books before you leave for the vacation. You can check which books you have on loan, and renew them, through the catalogue - select Patron Functions to see your details.

Both Libraries will be open during the vacation; in common with the rest of the University, we will be closed between Christmas and New Year and will re-open on Thursday 3 January.

We look forward to seeing you in 2008.

Gill McDonald
Reader Services Manager

Happy birthday!

Yes, its the birthday of the spineless? blog. We’re one year old!

In the last year there have been more than 200 posts to this blog, in 10 categories (see the toolbar to the right), which have received over 17,000 views.

The most popular post by far was eBooks available through NetLibrary, followed by Open Access - some pointers, eBooks in building and construction, and Library projects: PerX. The post about opening hours during the Easter weekend also received a large number of views, which shows that Heriot Watt students and staff don’t stop for holidays!

We hope you’ve found spineless? useful and of interest over the past year. We’re always interested in your thoughts, and also if you have any questions about the library and its services, so please feel free to make comments, or to email libhelp@hw.ac.uk

Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian