I’m at Birmingham City University on Monday for mashed library event No.3, a.k.a. #Middlemash. I’m giving a lightning talk in the morning covering the work we’ve done on using RefWorks to create new-book RSS feeds; I’ll also be trying to raise interest around Joss’s and my project to develop WordPress MU as a platform for [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Inter-library loans are changing
Attention Inter-library loan users! Our new system will go live Monday 7th December 2009. There will be some changes which you will be guided through when you access the LLR portal page. In the meantime if you want to keep your past inter-library loan history please ensure you have printed it off/saved it by the 7th December 2009! It will be unavailable [...]
Health and Social Care off-air recordings listed on Blackboard
To help promote off-air recordings to Health and Social Care staff and students, Kevin has set up an area on Blackboard where we can list recent programmes recorded. Each item shows the programme title and brief summary of the content, with the title acting as a hyperlink to the library catalogue entry. The collection includes both [...]
Video to DVD transfer project completed
Started in April 2008, the transfer of off air recording videos to DVD is now completed wth the successful transfer of the award-winning Three Colours Blue / Trois Couleurs: Bleu (1993) starring Juliette Binoche. Now students and staff will be able to enjoy watching films, documentaries and lectures in a more modern format on PCs [...]
The case for opening up library data: #jiscmosaic at Wolves
I made the (deceptively long) journey over to the city campus of the University of Wolverhampton yesterday (18 Nov 2009) for the concluding JISC MOSAIC project event. I was without an Internet connection all day so wasn’t able to waste time contribute to the backchannel by tweeting from the event, so here’s my writeup. Interlude 1: [...]
Test posting from the University Repository
An image which I deposited to test a new ‘post to blog’ feature in the University of Lincoln Repository (http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk): this feature has been developed for the University by EPrints services and uses the XML-RPC publishing protocol. View this item on Lincoln’s IR: http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/2037/
Changes to the Inter-library loan Service
The Inter-library loans service is changing! We are currently in the process of updating our Inter-library loans software which will mean a few changes in appearance and in the way you place requests. The new service should be in place soon so watch this space for more updates and information. Most of the Acquisitions [...]
Milestone for Dave Masterson
The Hull LRC team celebrated Dave’s 40th birthday a week early with a lunchtime buffet last week as the man himself was taking this week off – obviously planning enough time to recover from the rest of his birthday celebrations. Happy birthday Dave !
A-to-Z tweak: magazines from Google books
Yesterday, I spotted (thanks @calire) that Google books have created a page that lets you browse their available magazine titles. I can’t resist a free journal. So I copied-&-pasted the entire page into MS Excel, used a handy function to extract the underlying URLs from the hyperlinked titles, did a bit of search-&-replace to make [...]
