20 March 2008
We wish you a Happy Easter.
Both Riccarton & Martindale Libraries will be closed over the holiday weekend:
Friday 21 March - Monday 24 March both libraries closed
Details of all our opening hours for the Easter vacation are available here.
Gill McDonald
Reader Services Manager
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Posted by Gill McDonald
18 March 2008
We regret that Riccarton Library will not be open for extended evening hours throughout the Easter Vacation. This is due to the unavailability of staff. We will only be able to open in the evenings in the first and last weeks of the vacation. Our opening hours will be:
Week beginning Monday 17 March
Monday - Thursday 09.00 - 20.00
Friday - Closed (Good Friday)
Weekend - Closed
Week beginning Monday 24 March
Monday - Closed (Easter Monday)
Tuesday - Friday 09.00 - 17.00
Weekend - Closed
Week beginning Monday 31 March
Monday - Friday 09.00 - 17.00
Weekend - Closed
Week beginning Monday 7 April
Monday - Thursday 09.00 - 20.00
Friday 09.00 - 17.00
Weekend - Closed
We apologise for any inconvenience. Full details of our opening hours
Gill McDonald
Reader Services Manager
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Posted by Gill McDonald
17 March 2008
Added to the library recently were books on statistical methods, fashion, flow cytometry, fermentation and several other topics.
For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.
Some selected new titles in Riccarton Library include The big switch: rewiring the world, from Edison to Google, by Nicholas Carr, and The new rules of engagement: life-work balance and employee commitment, by Mike Johnson. There’s a preview of this book (table of contents, selected pages, etc) at Google Book Search.
A copy of Fashion and fetishism: corsets, tight-lacing and other forms of body-sculpture, by David Kunzle has been added to the Galashiels Library. You can search inside this book at Amazon.
Information on how to place a reservation for a book is available.
Information on suggesting books for the library is also available, or you can let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for new titles.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
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Posted by Roddy MacLeod
17 March 2008
If you’re interested in new and noteworthy websites, news from the scholarly publishing industry, new academic and library blogs, and much more, then check out the March/April 2008 issue of the Internet Resources Newsletter.
The newsletter is edited by Marion Kennedy, Catherine Ure and myself. It’s monthly, and its free.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
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Posted by Roddy MacLeod
16 March 2008
In May of last year, the Library and the ICBL were represented at a workshop looking into the role of libraries in institutional portals. A Report from the workshop has now been published by the JISC-funded CREE (Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment) project.
The CREE project was based on the premise that for the vast majority of search tools available on the Web, users have to visit the website of the search tool, where they are often presented with a bewildering range of interfaces with which to interact, which can be discouraging. Anyone who has used even a few of the databases and other electronic resources available to this library will no doubt be able relate to that scenario.
The purpose of the workshop was to involve a number of people from different universities who had been working on embedding search tools in portals, Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) and local library websites. Heriot-Watt University was invited because of the work done on the PerX project, and in particular a pilot to embed PerX within the Blackboard VLE at Heriot-Watt, for which a separate report is available.
Outputs from the PerX project are being used in the TechXtra service, which enables anyone to search over 4 million items from 31 top sources in engineering, mathematics and computing. TechXtra is an initiative of the ICBL and the Library, and is made freely available because of the need to be able to cross-search databases and other information services on a subject basis.
The Gold Dust project, with which the Library and the ICBL is also involved, is being lead by Hull University Library where the CREE project is based.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
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Posted by Roddy MacLeod
12 March 2008
Ask a Librarian, a new chat (or instant messaging) enquiry service was launched by the Library on Monday March 3rd.
It allows students and staff to enquire about the information and resources available at the Library, either through their favourite chat service, or by using an anonymous chat box located on the Library website.
Ask a Librarian is available during normal enquiry service hours, and supports the main chat services (AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger).
For those of you interested in what’s under the bonnet, we use the Meebo chat aggregator to monitor the various chat services, and the Plugoo chat widget to provide the anonymous chat box.
For more information on Ask a Librarian please go to http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/chat.html, and if you have any questions or comments you can contact us at libhelp@hw.ac.uk.
Dave Bond,
Systems Manager
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Posted by Dave Bond
6 March 2008
Added to the library recently were books on operating systems, percolation, environment and climate change, sewers in Scotland and several other topics.
For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.
Some selected titles include The design of future things, by Donald A. Norman, and a further copy of the 3rd edition of Property investment appraisal, by Andrew Baum and Neil Crosby. There’s more information about Property investment appraisal at the publisher’s website.
A copy of Foundations of F#, by Robert Pickering, was also added. There’s a preview of this book (table of contents, selected pages, etc) at Google Book Search.
Information on how to place a reservation for a book is available.
Information on suggesting books for the library is also available, or you can let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for new titles.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
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Posted by Roddy MacLeod
4 March 2008
March 6th is World Book Day, an event promoting the enjoyment of books and reading. World Book Day was designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and is marked in over 100 countries around the globe. Read more at the World Book Day website.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
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