Really… the Library? Session for academic staff

 

Academic staff are invited to attend a lunchtime session to find out more about the resources and services the library provides to help with teaching and research. 

Topics covered include:

Full-text books, chapters and articles in Vision courses

Workshops to complement your teaching

Sessions for students to reinforce independent learning

Advice for students on citing, referencing and plagiarism

Support for your research

Endnote libraries from home / conferences

The session will be held in the Anderson Room of the library on Wednesday 26 August, 12.15-13.45.  Please feel free to bring your lunch, tea and coffee will be provided.  For catering purposes, please let us know if you’d like to come along.

 Contact Marion Kennedy email: M.L.Kennedy@hw.ac.uk or call ext. 3583

 Catherine Ure
Subject Librarian

Academic staff – have you sent us your Reading Lists?

6 weeks from now, our students will be back and ready to read. A common complaint is that the Library does not have the books you’ve recommended, or does not have enough copies.

Send us your Reading Lists now and we still have time to buy any new books needed before semester starts.

Send your Reading Lists to Eve Dick; contact Eve with any questions about ordering books or other material for the Library.

Interested in improving student access to key texts?

E-books can be accessed 24/7, on and off-campus. We already have over 200 e-books; we can find out availability and cost of e-versions of your recommended texts and help you decide whether we should buy them for our growing collection.

You can upload digital copies of essential chapters/articles into your Vision modules – check out our Scanning Service or contact us for more details.

Gill McDonald
Deputy Librarian

Academic staff – send us your Reading Lists

As you prepare your courses for 2009/2010, please remember to send the Library a copy of the Reading Lists you will be giving to your students.

Why do we need your reading lists?

We need to be sure that the Library has copies of all the books you will be recommending to your students next year. We need details of all your recommended reading so that we can ensure we have copies of all the books you recommend, and that we have enough copies for the number of students in your classes.

What do we do with your lists?

We check to make sure we have all the books on your lists.

We order any books which we do not already have.

We order additional copies of books where you indicate large numbers of students in your classes.

We can find out whether anything on your list is available as an e-book.

We inform you if any of the books on your list are out of print, or otherwise unavailable, so you can consider alternative recommendations.

How are these books paid for?

We use the central Course Book Fund to buy books to support teaching. Books on your reading list will be charged to this fund.

What should you do?

Please send your lists to Eve Dick in Riccarton Library. Please give the approximate number of students expected to take the course, so we can order multiple copies if necessary.

Did you know?

We can also make digitised copies of essential chapters, articles etc. available for uploading into Vision through our Scanning Service. Contact us for more details of how you can make essential reading available to your students 24/7.

Please remember

We need advance warning of any books which you will recommend to your students – tell us before you tell them!

Thanks!
Gill McDonald
Deputy Librarian