Monthly Archives: February 2011

Architecture theses

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All the Architecture theses and dissertations in the Library are now catalogued and included in the Theses collection on Aleph. It is now possible to do a single search of the Theses collection on the catalogue to find Architecture theses and dissertations.

As part of the process there has been a change to the theses that are kept in the SAPL room on level 3. At the request of SAPL the examples of UG dissertations have been moved from the compactus and they are now shelved in the SAPL room. The shelfmark is SAPL Room AT[number], e.g. SAPL Room AT100.

This collection has been refreshed with the addition of recent dissertations in place of some of the older dissertations which have been returned to the School of Architecture. A new AT list is available at the Information Desk on level 3.

The historical local collection of Architecture theses that was in the SAPL room has been transferred to the compact shelving on level 1. This collection has the shelfmark SAPL Local [number] with numbers running from 151-366. Some of the older dissertations which were of local interest have been added to the original collection.

Jessica

Searching for articles in trade magazines

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We have had a couple of queries from Marketing students looking for articles from trade or magazine publications. They have to find some peer reviewed articles and then compare them with trade articles.
There are two different routes to look for some relevant material:

The student knows the name of the trade magazine e.g :
Marketing news
Marketing week
Adweek

Then uses Find It to access the title and then does a keyword for articles within it. Keywords seem to be Integrated Marketing Communications.

The other option If they don’t know the name of a publication, if they keyword search in Business Source Premier once you get a list of results you can then refine to narrow down to trade publications only.

Hope that helps in case there are any more queries at the information desk

Thanks
Louise

Disability status on Aleph

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The new status for readers who are allowed longer loan periods has now been set up in Aleph so their loans can be issued on self-issue and the extended loan will be automatically applied (so they won’t have to come to the desk to borrow and can use self issue when the desk is closed). Sheila is changing the status for all new users, as their details are sent each week from Student Wellbeing, and will change it for all the existing students shortly.

In the meantime, if anyone comes to the desk for an extended loan, if Sheila is there she’ll change their status, or if you don’t usually do registration changes, ask one of the other supervisors.

The status needs to be changed in the Local patron tab to either status 15 Undergraduate RWD or 16 Postgraduate RWD and also the Profile in the Global tab has to be changed to either 15 UG DISABL or 16 PG DISABL. If you do make a change please let Sheila know the name/number of the student.

The extended loans are available to students with a disability, who have been referred to us by Student Wellbeing (so it doesn’t apply automatically to everyone with a disability). They can borrow items for longer than the standard 4hr STC loan or Next Day Loan period, not including 4 week loans. They can borrow STC for 24 hrs from the time of loan and NDL until closing time 2 days later. Until now they have had to come to the desk to have their loans extended.

Liz

Printer ribbons

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If you change a ribbon because it has snapped can you please take note of which machine and the date so we can monitor how often this is happening.

Can you also make sure that when you change the ribbon that you pull off the paper which is attached to the sticky wheel (which grips the Smartcards). There is a blue coloured strip attached to the wheel which you need to pull off along with the paper. This may be the reason why the ribbons are snapping but we are not sure. Please keep the snapped ribbons for me to check.

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Janice

Replacement smartcards at King’s Gate & refunds

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There have been a couple of cases recently when students have been accidentally given replacement smartcards at King’s Gate even though the original lost card has been handed in at RL. In such cases KG will refund their £10 – give the student one of our compliments slip, and note on it that it’s for £10 refund for a lost card. It must also be stamped with the Library stamp.

Thanks,

Liz