Archive for the ‘Christmas’ tag
A Merry Christmas from Bob the Robot
He’s looking very festive…
British Library trips for semester B
Quick message to say that I’ve just emailed the British Library to see if we can book two trips for semester B – Wed 4th Feb and Wed 18th Feb. I finish in less than one hour for my Christmas break so won’t know until Jan if they can fit us in. Will need to book the minibus too. Will let you know the outcome.
Also, just to let everyone know that I’m on jury service from 5th Jan 09 (hoping for a juicy case to get my teeth into!) probably for two weeks, so won’t be back until Mon 19th Jan.
Hope you all have a great Christmas and see you in the new year!
Alison
3 Day Loan Rolling over Christmas dates
The 3 day loan items will roll over Christmas from the 19th December to be back on the 5th January
RE: 4 weeks Easter loan rollover dates
Just to let everyone know that the 4 week loans will rollover after Christmas the dates are:
after the 05/03/2009 they are due back 22/04/2009.
4 week users are FEAN, AUN,PG and PT
Christmas breakfast – come eat drink and be merry..
at our end of year get together. Croissants, fruit and all of the usual favourites will be on offer all for festive sum of £1.50 accepted on the day. Friday 19th September December 9 -10am in the Reader Services work space. See you there and have a very Merry Christmas.
Change to e-book links on HiP
Chris L. and I have made a couple of changes to the way e-book links work on the public catalogue.
I’ve put a message on the public blog about the most obvious difference – MyiLibrary titles now open up in a new browser window – this seemed to be something that annoyed a lot of users (at least – a few Holbeach students complained about it…) because they couldn’t get back to the catalogue using the ‘back’ arrow.
Horizon now also handles the Athens authentication from MARC 856 $u in a slightly different way. We’ve made that change so that we can get the MARC records for the new ebrary e-books onto Horizon with the minimum of fuss, but it shouldn’t affect what users see when they log in to MyiLibrary (or ebrary) via HiP.
(You might spot that, since the change, links ro existing MyiLibrary titles in 856 are getting a double-dose of Athens authentication… this doesn’t seem to cause a problem [cue emails from Eduserv telling me why it's a terrible idea!] and Chris, Di, Bev, Jill and I will have a little project after Christmas to tidy up the existing MyiLibrary MARC records, to bring them in line with the newer ebrary records, and to put a stop to the duplicated Athens authentication within the links.)
I have to give credit here to Dave Pattern @ Huddersfield, who pointed the way forward to do this within Horizon(!) when we were chatting in London a week or so ago. Thanks Dave; works a treat!
One Week Loan Christmas Roll Over
Just to let everyone know that the one week loans are rolling for the Christmas period from the 5/12/08 returning on the 07/01/09
The Buzz #10
W elcome to issue ten of the Library and Learning Resources newsletter “The Buzz”. Many thanks to all the
contributors and keep your ideas rolling in!
The Buzz #6
W elcome to issue six of the Learning Resources newsletter “The Buzz”. Many thanks to all the contributors, each issue has got bigger and better!!
The Buzz #3
Welcome to the third edition of the Learning Resources staff newsletter. Many thanks to all who entered the competition to name the newsletter. We had many responses, even the Vice Chancellor entered into the spirit of things. The winner was ‘The Buzz’ entered by Alison Sharman and she wins a bottle of wine for her effort.
