Due to electrical work in Cottrell this weekend, student print suite labs 1A11a (dissertation printing) and 2A18 (standard printing) will be closed from 5pm on Friday 20th January until 9am Monday 23rd January. During this period, the following printing facilities are available: 2B50 Cottrell Standard mono printing Friday/Saturday/Sunday 24 hour access Library […]
Electrical work in Cottrell this weekend
This message relates to the notice published in the 16th January Information Bulletin by Property Management regarding the electrical and data shutdown this coming weekend (21st and 22nd January). In order to have equipment removed from the work site in time, it is necessary for Systems and Network Services to bring down the data and […]
Succeed Downtime
Succeed will not be available between 10am-12noon this Saturday 14th January to install three service packs (sp5, sp6, sp7). Details on these upgrades were given in the last Issue: Â http://intranet.stir.ac.uk/issue/ISSUE87_December2011.pdf (p7) Â Simon Booth Succeed Admin
Behind the Scenes of Science Research Papers
Jonathan Eisen, Professor at U. C. Davis and blogger, has collated posts written by the authors describing “The Story Behind the Paper” for selected science research papers. All of the papers discussed in the series are Open Access, so you can read how the paper came about and then read the paper itself!  Professor Eisen is […]
Service disruption to web services
Owing to the upgrade of a key data storage system there will be disruption to many of the University’s web sites/services on Friday 30th December. Services will be shut down from 07:00, and are expected to return between 12:00 and 16:00. The main University web site ‘www.stir.ac.uk’ and the portal should not be affected. […]
Holiday closure dates
The Library and Social Study Zone on Stirling Campus will be closed from 2pm on Friday 23rd December until Thursday 5th January. If you wish to renew a book you will need to do so via the ‘my library record’ feature on the library catalogue. This is available from http://libcat.stir.ac.uk  There is lots of help material […]
Succeed Training
Introductory training sessions on Succeed have been arranged for the following dates (all January 2012)Â Wednesday 11th (14.00-17.00) Friday 13th (10.00-13.00) Tuesday 17th (14.00-17.00) Thursday 19th (10.00-13.00) Â These are aimed at staff who will be using Succeed for the first time in the spring semester or who missed out on the last set of […]
…in support of libraries, books, words, ideas…
Beautiful hand-crafted paper sculptures have been left in Edinburgh libraries with notes saying they are gifts “in support of libraries, books, words, ideas”. To view images of the sculptures visit Robert Krulwich’s blog posts: Who Left A Tree, Then A Coffin In The Library? and The Library Phantom Returns!. There is also a Flickr photostream of […]
New reading lists for Spring 2012
New reading lists for Spring 2012 Â Within the TalisList reading list, references link to the book or journal details in the library catalogue, so students can immediately check availability, place holds, etc. References to our electronic journal articles can link directly to the article. Lists can include references to paper materials, as well as […]
21 years of additional content in The Times Digital Archive
The Times Digital Archive has been expanded and now covers the period 1785 – 2006. Previously the archive covered 1785 – 1985. The interface has also been upgraded and advanced searching is now much easier. The archive is available from the A-Z list of online resources. Â The Times Digital Archive provides students and researchers […]