Last January, JISC conducted probably the largest e-book survey ever undertaken, with more than 23,000 responses from students and staff at UK universities.They are now distributing an exit questionnaire to see how things have moved forward in that time and how attitudes and behaviour towards e-books have changed. To give your views on provision of […]
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Work begins on transforming the university’s library
On 22 December the University Court gave the final go ahead for the £13.9 million project to transform the library. By the summer of 2010, the University will have on the Stirling campus a 21st century library to support the learning and research activities of all students and staff. As it is the existing building […]
Borrow more books
The Stirling Campus Library loan allocation has been raised to 100 books for academic staff and research postgraduates. The increased allocation, which applies only to “long loan” books is available now, and the books may be borrowed until August 2010. Â This is part of the planning for the Interim Library Service, which will operate […]
Portal downtime Friday 16 – Sunday 18 January
Due to the need for extensive, essential maintenance to the database, the staff and student portal will be unavailable from 17.00 on Friday, 16th January, and for the whole of Saturday, 17th January. The portal will remain at risk on Sunday, 18th January.Access to WebCT, webmail and some other functions will still be available at […]
Library opening hours and vacation loan periods
Stirling Campus: The Library reopens on Monday 5th January and vacation hours will apply.   Vacation loan periods will apply as follows:  LONG LOANS – will be issued from Friday 5 December 2008 and will be due for return Fri 29 May 2009. POP LOANS - will remain weekly loans RESERVE BOOK ROOM (RBR) – […]
Latest edition of ISSUE (IS newsletter) now out
The latest edition (number 74, November 2008) of the Information Services newsletter, ISSUE, is now available in printed format (from the Library) and also on the IS web site at:  http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/aboutis/issue.php  Articles include: an interview with the new Director of Information Services, Mark Toole; Library Project update; article about StirGate (new search tool); Web of […]
Information Services Open User Forum
There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Wednesday 3 December 2008 at 2.00pm in 2A13, Cottrell Building, Stirling Campus. Â All are welcome. IS representatives in academic and administrative departments and SUSA representatives are especially encouraged to attend. Â Please send any items for the agenda to IS Office (liboff1@stir.ac.uk) before the […]
Spotlight for November – PsycARTICLES
Looking for journal articles on psychological topics? The Library provides access to PsycARTICLES, a full text database which contains over 130,000 articles from 58 journals published by the American Psychological Association. PsycARTICLES is a useful resource for anyone studying or researching psychology, behavioural sciences or mental health nursing. See our user guide to PsycARTICLES . […]
Portal downtime Tuesday 28th October
Due to an essential upgrade, the portal will be down on Tuesday 28th October from 9.30am. The upgrade should take no more than an hour, after which normal portal service will be resumed.  During the portal downtime, the following services will be accessible directly:  WebCT: http://webct.stir.ac.uk Library catalogue: http://libcat.stir.ac.uk Staff webmail: https://mail.stir.ac.uk Student […]
New enhancements in Web of Science in recent upgrade
The latest upgrade to Web of Science included a number of changes. Major changes include: Â ISI Proceedings – Science (for scientific and technical conference papers) has been renamed “Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science” Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science is now integrated into the Web of Science search along with the other Citation […]