IS News Blog

The following are a selection from the suggestion cards that have recently been received at the Stirling campus library. If you have any suggestions or comments you can always comment on this post, email the library (library@stir.ac.uk) or fill in a suggestion card.

 

• Is it possible to have someone enforce the silence rule in the library?  Groups of 6-8 sit chatting about topics not related to work in voice levels that would be OK in the Atrium but not in a quiet study area.  This will only become worse when the update is done as the carrels are being replaced.

 

I’m sorry your study has been disturbed in this way.  We do try to keep the upper floors of the Library quiet, and will also do so in the new Library.  The carrels will be going, but we will have clear demarcation of quiet study, less quiet study and group study according to the layout and furniture of the areas.  It is an approach we have seen working well while visiting other new Library buildings during the design phase of the project.

 

• Could you please place the machine for putting printing money on your student card next to the printers or copiers?  It’s really annoying to have to stop copying/printing and to have to pack up all your stuff, leave the library, come back in and then copy/print.

 

The moneyloaders are in the current locations for reasons of security and accessibility.  The library opening hours are normally restricted which has been a major factor in placing one of the moneyloaders in the Atrium.  The Atrium moneyloader is a back up for the Cottrell money loader so needs to be outside the library.  The alternative is to use the online payment system on the Portal which allows students to credit their accounts by debit or credit card with £10 or more.

 

• Children should not be allowed in the library.  It is supposed to be a quiet place not a place for children to run about and scream.  It’s not an alternative to daycare.

 

We don’t exclude children for the Library, but our regulations state that they must remain under supervision at all times, and that all users must conduct themselves in ways which do not disrupt the work of others.  Children running about and screaming clearly is disruptive, and should be reported to library staff.

 

library@stir.ac.uk

This message applies to Stirling Campus.

 

As you will be aware, while building work is in progress in the main Library building, an Interim Library Service will operate from the North Extension studies area. More details of this are at http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/newlibrary/interim.php

 
 

This service will begin operation on Monday 29th June. To minimise the inevitable disruption this transfer of services will cause, we plan to close the Library for the preceding three days; Friday 26th June to Sunday 28th June.

 

Please advise us of any particular concerns you have, and we will do our best to accommodate your requirement.

 

Sorry for any inconvenience this will cause.

 

 

Mark Toole

Director of Information Services

The STORRE Managers have great pleasure announcing that on Friday 15th May 2009 the 1,000th item was committed to STORRE: Stirling Online Research Repository (http://storre.stir.ac.uk).  

 

The 1,000th item to make it into the repository was:  

Title:   Research Frontiers in Wholesale Distribution (Editorial)
Authors:  Quinn, Jim; Sparks, Leigh
ID:   http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1187  

 

So well done to Professor Leigh Sparks, and to all the other authors who have submitted items to STORRE to help us reach this grand total. Keep it up!  

 

Of course, putting your research publications in STORRE is not all about the numbers. Rather STORRE serves to promote the University’s research output, and increase it’s impact and citation, by making it freely available to the wider research community.  

The whole STORREy
STORRE first opened its doors for business in June 2005. In September 2006 it became mandatory for Research Students to deposit an electronic copy of their successfully defended research thesis in STORRE, and so by April 2008, when the policy requiring all Journal Articles accepted for publication be deposited in STORRE was announced, the repository had a grand total of 206 items; 143 eTheses and 63 Journal Articles.   Since the introduction of the Journal Article mandate last year, STORRE has been further expanded to accept other refereed works such as Book Chapters, Conference Papers, Working Papers, and Research Reports, and another 796 items have been committed to the repository.  

 

At the time of writing, STORRE contains:  

Journal Articles: 588
eTheses:  253
Book Chapters:  55
Conference Papers: 66
Working Papers:  40
Research Reports: 1

 
There is more information on how to submit items to STORRE available at http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/research/repository/research-deposit.php, but if you have any questions relating to STORRE, or would like someone to speak to your department about STORRE and the submission process, please don’t hesitate to contact us.   Here’s to the next 1,000!  

 

Michael White, Clare Allan
STORRE Managers

The Stirling campus library opening hours for the last week of semester and the vacation period are now available on the IS website.

 

Lending and Enquiry Services

Kathryn Mackenzie, Research Assistant for ‘The Cinema Authorship of Lindsay Anderson’ project has started a blog charting the progress of her work cataloguing the Lindsay Anderson Collection, and which will also discuss wider issues in the area of film and arts related archives. See:  http://archivesandauteurs.blogspot.com/

The Stirling campus library is currently piloting extended hours opening.  If you’ve been in the library during the extended hours you may have been invited to complete a survey about your reasons for visiting.  We’d also like to hear from people who are not using the extended hours, and we’ve set up a quick poll to find out your views.  You can find the quick poll on the IS home page.

 

If you’d like to share any thoughts on the extended hours please add your comments below, or email kst1@stir.ac.uk.

 

The extended hours will continue to Thursday May 28th. During the extended hours the Library will open for 24 hours every day except Friday and Saturday nights when closes at 7pm.

Kirsty Thomson

Subject Librarian

On Stirling campus the journals in the “current display” display sections of Levels 3 and 4 in the Library are today being removed in preparation for the Interim Library.

 

Current journal issues will now be shelved with the normal run of journals.

 

While the refurbishment of the main Library building takes place (summer 2009-summer 2010), the Interim Library service will operate from the current studies area (s19, s20, s21 areas). A new entrance will be created from the Atrium into the Interim library.

 

For more information on the New Library Project see the Project web pages.

 

Sonia Wilson

Serials/Acquisitions Librarian

**FOR STAFF AND STUDENTS ON STIRLING CAMPUS**

 

Information Services has released another newsletter to inform staff and students of the upcoming changes to the Library service as we get closer to the refurbishment of the main building. The newsletter includes information on the location of the interim Library service, the services which will be available for academic year 2009-2010, the availability of materials in support of teaching and information on arrangements for study space and PC provision while the main building is being worked on.

 

Click here to view the newsletter

 

Don’t forget that you can see photos of the work in progress, join in discussion topics and find out about the final New Library building on our facebook page – search for ‘University of Stirling New Library Project’ in facebook or follow this link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/University-of-Stirling-New-Library-Project/52701324641?v=box_3 We will update the facebook page over the summer during the setup of the Interim Library.

 

 

Information Services
http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/newlibrary

Please note that there will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Monday 11 May, 10.00am in Cottrell Building 2B87, Stirling Campus.

 

All staff and students are welcome to attend. IS departmental and SUSA representatives are particularly encouraged to come along.

 

The agenda will include an Update on the Library Transformation Project, University Information Strategy and the IS Strategic Plan, as well as Teaching Facilities in Pathfoot (as requested).

 

Derek Hodge, Lecturer in Film, Media and Journalism will chair the Forum

 

It would be helpful to receive any further agenda items for the Forum in advance, therefore please send them to IS Office (liboff1@stir.ac.uk) if possible, by noon on Friday 8 May 2009.

 

Please find attached links to the previous minutes, strategy papers and library project.

http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/aboutis/groups/index.php

http://www.foi.stir.ac.uk/documents/information-strategy.pdf

http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/docs/policy/ISStrategicPlan2009-13.pdf

http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/newlibrary/index.php