Last day to return your books – staff & PhD students

A final reminder to staff & PhD students – your books are due back today, Friday 30 May. If you want to keep them, we can renew them for you when you bring them back.

You can check which books you have on loan through the Library catalogue at http://hw.lib.ed.ac.uk/ – select the Patron Functions button to access your details.

Gill McDonald
Reader Services Manager

New books in the Library – 29 May

Added to the library recently were new books on Europeaan politics (2 titles) cosmology (3 titles), physics, chenistry, etc. For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue. Of general interest are:

The Landscape of Qualitative Research is the third edition of the book and discusses research methods in the social sciences; the contents can be viwed on Amazon. Teaching Academic Writing is a new title and of relevance in all disciplines.

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.

Arnold Myers
Senior Information Scientist

Library Cafe

There will be a cafe on the entrance floor (Level 2) of the Library from September serving the same range of drinks and snacks that you can buy at Cafe Brio.  We have called it Dewey’s after the classification scheme that the Library uses to arrange its books on the shelves, so do drop in for a 641.8157 (the number for muffins) next session. September will be month of special promotions.

Michael Breaks

University Librarian

Final reminder – staff & PhD students – books due back this week

A final reminder to staff & PhD students – your books are due back this week – by Friday 30 May. If you want to keep them, we can renew them for you when you bring them back. Over 500 people still have to return their books – bring yours back today and beat the queues on Friday!

You can check which books you have on loan through the Library catalogue at http://hw.lib.ed.ac.uk/ – select the Patron Functions button to access your details.

Gill McDonald
Reader Services Manager

Internet Resources Newsletter

If you’re interested in new and noteworthy websites of relevance to students, academics and researchers, or news from the scholarly publishing industry, or new academic and library blogs, and much more, then check out the June 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

Good luck with your exams – need some tips?

The Library has lots of books with good advice for exam revision. Look on our shelves at classnumber 371.3 for titles like:
How to pass exams / by Fred Orr.
Good study guide / by Andrew Northedge.
Revision strategies.
Student’s guide to exam success / by Eileen Tracy.
Sail through exams! : preparing for traditional exams for undergraduates and taught postgraduates / by Peter Levin.
and lots more…..

Good luck!

Gill McDonald
Reader Services Manager

Reminder to students – all Standard Loans now due for return

Undergraduates, Masters & Diploma students

All Standard Loan books which you have borrowed this term are due for return by Friday 6 June.

All your books should be returned to the Service Desk in either Riccarton or Martindale Libraries. As all books have to be returned at the end of the year, it is not possible to use the self-service feature in the catalogue at the end of this term. If you wish to keep your loans over the Summer Vacation, tell the Service Desk staff and they will issue the books for the summer.

All Standard Loan books which you borrow for the summer are due for return in the first week of next Semester – by Friday 19 September.

If you have any questions about borrowing, contact the Service Desks in the Riccarton or Galashiels Libraries.

Gill McDonald
Reader Services Manager

New books in the Library – 22 May

Added to the library recently were books on new urbanism, shipping, maritime economics, management accounting and several other topics.

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

Selected new titles in Riccarton Library include Invisible city: poverty, housing and new urbanism, by John Ingram Gilderbloom, and Modern transport geography, edited by Brian Hoyle and Richard Knowles. You can search inside this book at Amazon. Both books are on standard loan.

A further copy of the 5th edition of Operations management, by Bigel Slack, Stuart Chambers and Robert Johnston has also been added to Riccarton Library.

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

Staff & PhD students – 10 days to return your books

Reminder to staff & PhD students – it’s time for the annual return & inspection of Standard Loans. This year your books are due back by Friday 30 May. If you want to keep them, just bring them back and we can renew them for you. Over 600 people still have to return their books – why not return yours today and beat the queues next Friday?

You can check which books you have on loan through the Library catalogue at http://hw.lib.ed.ac.uk/ – select the Patron Functions button to access your details.

Gill McDonald
Reader Services Manager

Library open on University holidays – 19 & 20 May

Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 May are University holidays on the Riccarton campus. Riccarton Library will be open as normal on both those days from 09.00 – 21.45. Thanks to those staff who have volunteered to work on their holidays to keep the Library open in the run-up to the exams.

Martindale Library will also be open as normal, as these days are not holidays in Galashiels.

Gill McDonald
Deputy Librarian