Hi all,
Just forwarding the contents of an interesting tweet by @MLBurgess linking to his blog where he talks about e-books and how to make them more appealing to students.
http://mlburgess.tumblr.com/post/6106262080/ebookposter
One of things that the RSAslib team have found, when helping students on the info desk or at the Service Desk, is there is still quite a lot of reluctance, by some students, to use an e-book, even if it is the last book, or the only copy.
Rosemary
When a Smartcard is returned to the Robinson Library can you please refrain from blocking the readers’ card with the message ‘SC in box’. We have decided NOT to do this because when the student collects the Smartcard after the desk has closed or from the Porters on the Reception Desk the block cannot be removed. When the student then tries to borrow a book they are unable to do so.
Can you please put a message on Aleph (not a block) to say that the Smartcard is in the box AND also put a message on the Smartcard Database to say the card can be collected from the Robinson Library so that staff in Kings’ Gate know to send the student to us.
When a Smartcard has been reported lost then please remember to BLOCK readers’ record on Aleph and expire the Smartcard and chip date and write message in notes field on Smartcard Database.
Many thanks,
Janice (Registration Team, Robinson Library)
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Can you guess the title of this book and film?
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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.
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.
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
We have had a student who just wanted to borrow a laptop cable as he has his own laptop. Please don’t issue one of the cables numbered 1-30 as these are intended to be issued with our laptops.
I have a couple of spare cables which can be used for this purpose (cables 37 and 39). The issue cards are in the box with the other issue cards and the cables are in a pamphlet box next to the rest of the cables.
Just issue/discharge to the reader in the normal way.
Thanks
Marianne
Some of the weekend team presenting Michelle with her leaving present.
