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 […]
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 […]
WebCT Users’ Group
The seventh meeting of the WebCT Users’ Group is being held on Wednesday 28th January 2009 at 12.30 in the Iris Murdoch Centre. The format is lunch at 12.30 followed at 13.00 by a presentation by Mark Toole, Director of Information Services. Mark’s presentation will be on Elgg, open-source social networking software that is being used […]
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 […]
Changes to Access to Archives and Special Collections
As a result of building work in the university library many of our rare and valuable collections will be inaccessible from December 2008 to August 2010. In September 2010 the library will re-open with improved archives stores and a new reading room. Â Arrangements have been made for access to a number of our most […]
StirGate: Finding journal articles just got easier
StirGate, from the University of Stirling Library, is a new way of searching for journal articles, web sites and other useful publications. With one simple search you can browse up to 100 library resources.  These are the top 100 resources selected from our A-Z list of Online Resources and Subject Research Guides.  Using StirGate […]