L&LR staff blog

I spent Friday at Leicester University at the meeting of UKCORR (UK Council of Research Repositories).  Presentations about Journal ToCs, SHERPA ROMEO, CADAIR among others were all very interesting but it was even more useful to discuss issues with other people in same position as us.  REF, implications of mandate and, especially, eTheses seem to [...]

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 [...]

I visited Edinburgh University Library, which is half way through a £60 million refit.  So far, the ground, 5th and 6th floors have been completed.  To enter the ground floor, you go past a reception desk staffed by security, to a spacious area that includes an exhibition space, help desk, self service machines (with full [...]

The Reader Services team went to see the Boots library at Nottingham Trent’s City campus on the hottest day of the year.   The team met several members of staff in the library, and discussed how their role had adapted and changed with the introduction of self-service and the implementation of roving.   While most agreed that [...]

Interesting meeting for UKCORR

I’ve finally got a year’s worth of e-book usage data from both the ebrary and MyiLibrary platforms. I’ve been commenting on the growth in usage throughout the year (since Michelle formally launched ebrary Academic Complete back in January), so here (without comment) are all the stats from August 2008 and July 2009.   MyiLibrary (user [...]

Edit (8th July) – slideshare.net does not seem to like displaying these slides on-screen, so here they are to download in MS PowerPoint format. Here are the slides (on slideshare.net) of the 5-minute lightning talk I just gave at Mashed Library 2009, on using ticTOCs data to display e-journal ToC feeds, and on creating a new-titles [...]

There is a problem with online renewals at the moment. The counter is changing when users try to renew but the date is staying the same. The lack of this function is basically caused by a bug in HIP which causes problems when a My Account sub-tab is edited. The Sirsi-Dynix team are working on this [...]

The following details outline the organisation of an event in June.  If anyone else is interested in helping with organisation or on the day please let Oonagh Monaghan know at omonaghan@lincoln.ac.uk Steering group: Helen Farrall (CERD), Pat Hughes, Oonagh Monaghan, Lesley Thompson Publisher/supplier communications: Di Walker, Vicki Winchester-Fraser Helpers on the day: Alice Frear, Marie [...]

At the last meeting of the Staff Development Group it was decided that each session offered would be allocated a facilitator. The session ‘Advanced Horizon Skills’ is on the list and can be faciltated by Pam Young and Niki Rogers, however, to be able for us to write out a session guide we need to [...]