A warm welcome to Sergio Vittori our new weekend team member. Sergio has been helping out as a Sunday Assistant for the last 6 weeks, but he has now been offered the job on a permanent basis.
Congratulations!
Welcome to Sergio
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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Twitter Competition March 2011
Can you guess the title of this book and film?
Do you need a clue?
The book and film were set in the year 1665.
To enter the competition just tweet the answer to the question above. Good luck!
Terms and Conditions
Eligibility
1. This competition is open to staff and students of Newcastle University.
2. All entrants must be resident in the United Kingdom.
3. RS competitions are not open to employees or contractors of the University Library, any person directly or indirectly involved in the running of the competition, or their direct family members.
Your entry
All entries shall be submitted via Twitter to a openly accessible web page and you acknowledge that there is nothing confidential in your entry. The web page must remain openly accessible at least for the duration of the competition.
You agree and acknowledge that the University Library may link to your entry from any Library website.
Winning entries
The competition will be judged by the NULIBRS twitter team. The team’s decision shall be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
The University Library shall provide a prize of one Library bag to the first person to answer the question. In the event of more than one person answering at the same time the winner will be decided by a drawing of lots.
There will be no cash alternative.
If your entry is judged to be the winner of the first prize you further accept and agree:
• The University Library may showcase your entry on the homepage or any other page of the Library website and Twitter page.
• The University Library reserves the right to make any changes it deems necessary to your entry to ensure that it complies with all applicable University Library guidelines and policies.
Winners will be informed by Twitter and e-mail.
Prizes unclaimed after 28 days will be deemed to have been forfeited and the University Library reserves the right to re-offer the prize in any future competition.
Disclaimer
Proof of sending is not proof of receipt.
No responsibility is accepted for ineligible entries or entries made fraudulently.
General
The University Library reserves the right to cancel the competition at any stage, if deemed necessary in its opinion, or if circumstances arise outside of its control.
You will be deemed to have accepted these rules and to agree to be bound by them when entering the competition.
You will also be deemed to have accepted and agreed to be bound by any extra rules that appear on the site where the competition is hosted.
Student Aide recruitment
Just to let you all know that we have put up posters around the library to recruit student aides (the student shelvers who work in the evenings and weekends), for the next academic year.
Students who wish to apply can collect an application form from the reception/porters desk. Please could the staff on the Reception Desk tell any interested students to hand in the application form, together with their CV, for the attention of Joan Hulme.
They can hand in their applications at the Service Desk or at the Reception Desk. Closing date is the 8th May.
Recalls over Easter vacation
The Easter vac changes will be made to the recall procedures from 25th March. This will mean that after that time we will still send out recalls to let people know that their book is requested but we will not adjust due dates.
During the vacation Holds are still just kept for one week, and Holds to collect with other borrowers waiting are still just issued for a week.
Marianne
Lockers – no more available
There are currently no more lockers available. There are a number of lockers available to students who are referred by Student Wellbeing. Unfortunately at this moment in time these are the only students who can apply for lockers. I will not be taking a waiting list of post graduate students as quite often by the time a locker is available the student no longer requires one or has left the university.
Kim
JSTOR article-level linking problem
There’s a problem with article-level linking to JSTOR at the moment. If you get any queries about this, the advice is to remove any citation information from the Find it window, link through to the general page for the journal required and then to manually navigate to the article wanted.
It’s been reported to Exlibris, but may not be resolved until next month’s update (about 10th April). I’ve put a note on all the JSTOR titles, but I know from experience that people don’t always read these…
I’ll remove the note once the problem is resolved.
Jan Clark
Store due dates problem on Aleph
First thing this morning the long loan and Store due dates for all categories except staff and associates went slightly awry (the result of a change I made on the system yesterday…….sorry).
The long loans were fixed by 9.30 but the Store due dates are still not right. It is still issuing to Aug 2012 (unless the user’s record expires earlier and then it issues to their expiry date). The tables are now correct and we’ve restarted the server but it won’t correct itself so we’re hoping it will be fixed overnight. If not we’ll have to contact Ex Libris on Monday.
Once it’s fixed we’ll run a report to pick up any users with the wrong date but in the meantime if there are any Long Loan renewals from early this morning, or Store books with the wrong date please just change it.
I’m not sure if changing the dates this morning will affect any holds made during that time of so if there are any oddities, this might be why.
Liz ïŒ
Liz Lockey
Reader Services
x 7670
New status on Library Catalogue
We’ve added a new process status to Aleph. If you see a book on the opac with a status “Out of Collection Exhibition” it means the book is being used in a library display, usually by LIM.
At the minute there is a new display on Level 2 with lots of books on climate change. Readers can take the books to borrow but they will have to come to the desk to have the status removed first. We thought it was better to do this than leave the books saying In library and staff (possibly) spending a lot of time looking for them when in fact they are not missing.
Thanks
Margaret
