13 August 2008
Wouter Gerritsma, a subject librarian at Wageningen UR Library in the Netherlands, has compiled a useful set of links to websites which list science blogs.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
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Posted by Roddy MacLeod
6 August 2008
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 August 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
1 August 2008
During August, Riccarton Library is open for extended hours to cover the period of examinations and final work on dissertations.
From Monday 4 August - Friday 5 September, our opening hours are:
Monday - Thursday 09.00 - 20.00
Friday 09.00 - 17.00
Saturday - Sunday closed
Full details of our opening hours are at http://www.hw.ac.uk/library/openinghours.html
Gill McDonald
Deputy Librarian/Reader Services Manager
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Posted by Gill McDonald
31 July 2008
Added to the library recently were books on innovation management, market research, numerical earth models and several other topics.
For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.
Added to Riccarton Library were two more copies of the 4th edition of Innovation management and new product development, by Paul Trott. You can search inside this book at Amazon.
Added to the library at Galashiels was a copy of Market research in practice: a guide to the basics, by Paul Hague, Nick Hague & Carol-Ann Morgan. You can search inside this book at Amazon.
Added to the Petroleum Engineering Library were two titles, Numerical earth models, by J.-L. Mallet, and Arabian plate sequence stratigraphy, by Peter R. Sharland and others
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
7 July 2008
Congratulations to all students who are graduating this week. We hope you enjoy the ceremony - and the strawberries!
We’d particularly like to congratulate Hamza Khan and Vas Ramanujam, who both worked as Student Shelvers in the Library, and who graduate in Actuarial Maths & Statistics this week. Well done!
Gill McDonald
Reader Services Manager
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Posted by Gill McDonald
1 July 2008
Some of the keen eyed amongst may have spotted the book cover images now displaying in the Library catalogue.
This is a trial run of a product we are looking into at the moment to add content to our cataloge records. Only covers for books from certain publishers will be displayed, so you may notice more in some subject areas than in others. We will also be looking at adding tables of contents and summaries to the catalogue to provide even more information to users searching for relevant titles
While we look at ways to make the catalogue more user friendly and improve the content within it, we are also looking into the possibility of linking through from the catalogue to Google Books, which some of you may be familiar with already, and will evaluate how this enhances the catalogue
If you have any comments on how useful the addition of book covers, and other information, to the catalogue might be I’d be happy to hear them so please leave a comment.
Iain Young
Resources Manager
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