The new Staff Card will now operate as your Library Card. Â The new card data has been used to create a new library record which has been merged with your old library record so that all books on loan, your borrowing history etc is preserved. Â The one thing that you will have to […]
Getting started with the library – free training sessions
Getting started with a University Library can be a daunting prospect. To help overcome this Information Services is running two free training sessions on 27th and 28th February 2012 which will cover:  how to search the library catalogue finding printed and electronic books finding printed and electronic journals how to use the short loan area […]
British Library Sounds – discover 50,000 sound recordings
British Library Sounds is a gateway to explore an amazingly diverse collection of sound recordings. Previously known as Archival Sound Recordings this resource was relaunched at the end of January 2012. To access British Library Sounds use the A-Z list of online resources. Â Here are some of the types of recordings British Library Sounds […]
Succeed notifications
Succeed can now notify you via email of events in Succeed such as a new item of content being added to a module that you are taking or that a new assignment, survey or test is available along with other events. A short document has been created on how to set up email notifications:Â http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/teaching/Succeed/help-guides_students.php […]
Succeed downtime
Succeed will be taken down at 8.00am on Wednesday 15th February to make some small changes to the configuration of the system and update a security certificate. The system should be down for no more than 30 minutes.  Apologies for any inconvenience.  Simon Booth Succeed Administrator
Succeed Overloaded
The performance issues experienced with Succeed this morning were caused by the extremely heavy load on the server. This was due to large numbers of students and staff attempting to login at the same time. Â Our current advice is to try again after a couple of hours. We are working on the issue with […]
JSTOR Ireland – new resource added to A-Z list
Students and staff of the University of Stirling now have access to JSTOR Ireland. This is a collection of 75 interdisciplinary journals covering the history, literature, music, art and archaeology of Ireland. More information about JSTOR Ireland and a link to a full list of journals is available here: http://about.jstor.org/content-collections/journals/ireland.  To access JSTOR please use […]
Charles Dickens at 200, 7th February 2012
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known” (A Tale of Two Cities, 1859) Â 7th February 2012 is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. Why not celebrate […]
Brief network outage in Cottrell, Tuesday 7th
As previously announced in the IS Service Message sent on Thursday 19th January (http://blogs.stir.ac.uk/isnews/?p=1868), the completion of building work in the Cottrell 3X corridor requires a brief interruption to the data network (including phones) in the following areas of the Cottrell Building: Â Offices: 1A7, 1A8, 1A15, 1A16, 1A17 and 3A15 to 3A73. Computer Labs […]
Resources for Burns Night – 25th January
If you have left if too late to organise a haggis supper why not celebrate the life of Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns by visiting the Stirling Campus Library and borrowing some of our books about Burns. If you can’t make it into the Library, the National Burns Collection has a wealth of digitised resources available and the BBC […]