Returning students will notice that over the winter vacation the new University Library access control system was put into operation. Almost all University Libraries have access control in place. The main reason Stirling hasn’t done so till now is that unlike many other University libraries we do not have a neighbouring University whose students might […]
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Staff printing information – PaperCut User Portal
There is a facility within the PaperCut print management system that allows staff to login and look at various aspects of their print account. The most useful feature is the ability to look at the print jobs you currently have pending for release and the ability to cancel any jobs no longer required. To login […]
Reading lists at Stirling (for staff and students)
Reading lists have changed this semester, as we are now using new reading list software called Aspire. As before, you will be able to access your reading lists for your courses from within Succeed. Reading lists are now called Resource lists (to reflect the large number of non-book material, e.g., DVDs) and are accessible […]
ZETOC User Survey Results
A survey of users of the ZETOC service was undertaken late last year. A summary of the results is now available on the ZETOC website. ZETOC is an alerting and searching service which researchers can use to help locate and keep up to date with information in their areas of interest. ZETOC Search searches […]
Interruption to network connectivity in multiple locations, Tuesday 29th January
In order to carry out a number of maintenance tasks on an essential piece of network equipment, there will be a brief disruption to all network services, shortly after 07:30 on Tuesday 29th January. It is expected to last for approximately 5 minutes. During the outage, users in the following locations will be unable to […]
Warning about “phishing”
There seems to be an increase in “phishing” attempts as we approach the holiday period. This is where an attempt is made to capture your network username and password by sending a fake email as in the example below. Please be very careful not to open up a link contained in an email and enter […]
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online
The Library has recently taken out a subscription to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online. This is an extensive resource, which provides scholarly biographies of the people who have shaped British history and culture. It is particularly useful if you are studying History, but will also be relevant for other subjects with a […]
Getting to grips with the Library – new students start here
Got a reading list and no idea where to start? Not sure how to find a book in the Library? Want to know how to read an ebook? Need to find journal articles for an essay and not sure how to do this? All these questions, and many more, will be answered at one of our […]
New Library Resource – 19th Century UK Periodicals Online: New Readership Series
Thanks to JISC, we now have free access to one series of 19th Century UK Periodicals Online. From the JISC Collections website http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/ “This resource, subtitled New Readerships: Women’s, Children’s, Humour and Leisure/Sport, consists of almost 100 academically selected titles and approximately 1.2 million pages. It focuses on the birth of modern magazine publishing […]
Love books and reading? Two book festivals are coming to Stirling in September
Book lovers in Stirling will be spoilt for choice this September with two book festivals taking place locally. The Off the Page festival will run from 8th – 15th September 2012 and events will take place in the Smith Art Gallery, the Tollbooth Arts Centre and local public libraries. The programme can be viewed here, it includes adventurer Mark Beaumont, […]