L&LR staff blog

Joss has beaten me to blogging this, so rather than think for myself I’m just going to quote him in full.

Yesterday, I submitted a proposal to Talis under their Incubator fund. If successful, I would have the pleasure of working with Paul Stainthorp, E-Resources Librarian at the University of Lincoln, and Casey Bisson,  Information Architect at Plymouth State University. The bid is to develop an idea which I’ve posted about before, based on Casey’s work on Scriblio and our adventures with WordPress MU, in particular, JISCPress.

Anyway, rather than re-iterating the bid here. You can read it in full by clicking here.

Comments are very welcome. Thanks.

The 1 to 1 Learning Development sessions are now being held in the meeting room on the ground floor of the Library on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 11-12. The 15 minute sessions are drop-in only and they’re aimed at undergraduates.

We’re advertising the service on its own Portal page (under Library Services); we’ve put copies of the leaflet on the ground floor, second and third floor desks and we have a portable sign which we’ll  keep in the meeting room and put out first thing on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings.

Judith and Marishona

There will be no Admin Office cover on Wednesday 27 January due to annual leave.  If you wish to contact the admin team, a voicemail message can be left on Sally’s number (01522) 886427. You can also email libraryadmin@lincoln.ac.uk and we’ll respond as soon as we can.  Thanks.

Check out how to wireless print at our demo for staff  on Friday 5th February @ 9am in GCW UL101.   Tim Ingham from ICT Services will give a short presentation on what to do and how to do it.  All welcome.

On 26 January, the Digimap Classic mapping facility in the OS Collection available via the University Portal in the Library & Learning Resources e-library will be removed and will no longer be available for use.

Digimap Roam (released in October 2009) replaces Classic as the standard mapping facility in Digimap OS Collection.  Key features of Roam include: 12 fixed scale map views, click-and-drag navigation or “slippy maps” and enhanced printing options enabling you to generate printable PDF maps in landscape or portrait and A4 or A3 size.  Digimap Roam is a significant improvement on Classic, providing many enhanced futures and an easier to use, more intuitive user interface.

Roam will therefore provide similar outputs to Classic, but will also offer more advanced features. Access is exactly the same via the Portal as for Classic. Other services available through Digimap are unaffected.

We welcome two new members of the Reader Services evening team.  Imran Mohammad is working on four nights a week and started before Christmas.  Imran has worked with us for a while as security and agency staff.  Rachel Farrow (ex-PAL) will work on Monday and Tuesday nights, starting today.