It’s that time of year again when we come together to celebrate the joy of reading and the power of stories. Book Week Scotland 2024 is just around the corner, running from Monday 18th, November to Sunday 24th, November, and this year’s theme is “Hope”. Book Week Scotland is an annual celebration of books and […]
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UoS Guest Wi-Fi – Residences switch off
UoS Guest Wi-Fi is a public Wi-Fi service provided by an external company (BT) to many of our campus buildings. This is in place for visitors to the University and is intended for short term internet connection. During the summer months, when the University Residences are in use for holiday guests, we expand the Guest […]
Preparing your Autumn 2024 Reading List
Teaching staff are invited to create a new Autumn reading list or ‘roll over’ and update a previous list by clicking on the ‘Reading List’ option in your Autumn 2024 Canvas module. The reading lists are popular with students and a great way for them to engage with key texts and other materials. The interface […]
Library and IT suggestions
Your opinion matters, We welcome and encourage you to let us know how you can improve your library and IT experience at Stirling. With your valuable input, we can continue to provide the best possible service for you. In this blog post we will feedback some of the suggestions and our responses that we have […]
A new look for the Reading List system
The reading list system has received a make over and will look a bit different from Monday 17th June. Ex Libris who supply the Leganto reading list system say the revamp aims declutter and simplify processes for instructors and increase visibility of actions like digitization requests and adding student notes. The student interface has also […]
Library Opening Hours – Summertime
The library has moved to vacation hours. This means the library will close at 8pm on Fridays. There are no other changes to our opening hours. Our vacation hours are: Day Time Monday – Thursday 8:00am – 12:00 midnight Friday 8:00am – 8:00pm Saturday and Sunday 10:00am – 8:00pm
Digital Experience Survey – you said, we did
Every November Information Services invites students to complete the Digital Experience Insights Survey and to tell us all about your experiences with digital technologies in study and learning. This article summarises the main findings from the November 2023 return. As the survey gives us a valuable insight into how you use our main technologies and […]
Well deserved award for Dr David Telford (Director of Information Services)
During the UCISA Leadership Conference Awards Ceremony, a few weeks ago, a new award was announced inspired by the unexpected passing of three well respected Colleagues, who dedicated their time, effort and experience to improve the sector under the banner of UCISA. This new award is given to recognise outstanding contribution to UCISA. Deborah Green, […]
Upgrade Your RefWorks Writing Tool
If you use the RefWorks Write-N-Cite (WCN) writing tool to import references to your Word documents you need to upgrade to RefWorks Citation Manager (RCM) as soon as possible. WNC is no longer supported and will stop working at the end of 2024. RefWorks advise that you use RCM for all new documents. You may […]
Library Pizza Party
As part of the ongoing programme of engagement with our community, we held a pizza party in the library – yes, free pizza! OK, so the pizza may have been a sweetener (or should that be savoury-er?) to get some of you along to discuss some of the current plans for the library service and […]