If you have left if too late to organise a haggis supper why not celebrate the life of Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns by visiting the Stirling Campus Library and borrowing some of our books about Burns. If you can’t make it into the Library, the National Burns Collection has a wealth of digitised resources available and the BBC website has a further collection of useful materials.
We have recently enhanced the features in Succeed by adding a new sign-up tool. This does not replace the existing group tool that was used last semester but is much simpler in its execution. The built-in tool did cause some confusion amongst staff and students in its working and we believe that the new sign-up feature is easier to set up for staff and to use for students.
The new tool also offers some features that have been requested such as the ability to have different numbers of students signing up to different sessions -a feature that the Succeed tool does not have. Students can also remove themselves from a session they have signed up to (this feature can be switched off). Lastly a reserve list can be created for a session (or not).
The new tool also provides a downloadable, nicely formatted, spreadsheet of who has signed up for what.
Details on how to use the new tool can be found here:
http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/docs/succeed/crib_sheets/7_signup_sheets_building_block.pdf
The only feature the new sign-up tool does not support is ensuring that a student can only sign up to one amongst a group of classes. This feature will probably be included in a future update of the tool.
Simon Booth
Succeed Administrator
January.
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.
January). In order to have equipment removed from the work site in time, it is necessary for Systems and Network Services to bring down the data and telephony services mentioned in the notice from 20:00 on Friday 20th January.
Services will be restored by 0830 on Monday 23rd.
that this will be carried out one morning during our at-risk period (07:30 to 08:30). Further information regarding this second shutdown will be published by Property Management once the timings and services affected are confirmed.
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.
Succeed will not be available between 10am-12noon this Saturday 14th January to install three service packs (sp5, sp6, sp7). Details on these upgrades were given in the last Issue:
http://intranet.stir.ac.uk/issue/ISSUE87_December2011.pdf (p7)
Simon Booth
Succeed Admin
Jonathan Eisen, Professor at U. C. Davis and blogger, has collated posts written by the authors describing “The Story Behind the Paper” for selected science research papers. All of the papers discussed in the series are Open Access, so you can read how the paper came about and then read the paper itself!
Professor Eisen is an evolutionary biologist with interests in many areas of scientific research. His blog, The Tree of Life, contains this series of papers as well as his discussions on, amongst others, topics of Open Access, research and conferences.
These “Story Behind” posts give a great insight into the inspiration for research projects and how these projects produce published papers. The backgrounds to these papers are fascinating but may also be very helpful for researchers at the beginning of their careers, publishing, perhaps, for the first time.
These stories explore the interconnected relationship publishing has with learning, teaching and researching in an engaging and relevent way.
Elizabeth Andrews
Subject Librarian
16:00.
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.
The Library and Social Study Zone on Stirling Campus will be closed from 2pm on Friday 23rd December until Thursday 5th January. If you wish to renew a book you will need to do so via the ‘my library record’ feature on the library catalogue. This is available from http://libcat.stir.ac.uk
There is lots of help material on our website http://www.is.stir.ac.uk plus direct links to our services (Succeed, staff and student email, library catalogue).
Computing labs 2a15 and 2a17 in the Cottrell building will remain open throughout the closure period for those looking for computer access / study space.
We wish all of our Customers a Happy Christmas and New Year.
Information Centre
Introductory training sessions on Succeed have been arranged for the following dates (all January 2012)
- Wednesday 11th (14.00-17.00)
- Friday 13th (10.00-13.00)
- Tuesday 17th (14.00-17.00)
- Thursday 19th (10.00-13.00)
These are aimed at staff who will be using Succeed for the first time in the spring semester or who missed out on the last set of sessions.
To book onto a session please contact Kirsteen Young via email or Ex 6876
Beautiful hand-crafted paper sculptures have been left in Edinburgh libraries with notes saying they are gifts “in support of libraries, books, words, ideas”.
To view images of the sculptures visit Robert Krulwich’s blog posts: Who Left A Tree, Then A Coffin In The Library? and The Library Phantom Returns!.
There is also a Flickr photostream of images taken by Chrisdonia here.
Elizabeth Andrews
Subject Librarian