The Card Co-ordinator has advised that he will NOT have a card machine available for making Library Visitor cards during the week of 19th to 23rd February.

It is also likely that he will not be able to make cards for the week of 26th Feb to 2nd March if student enrolment is still heavy.

Lending Services will therefore suspend registration of external borrowers who require new cards during this time.

NB The good news is that this will not affect ULANZ/CTA borrowers under the new system where they use their home institution cards.

Remember – Postgrad student cards have been extended to 1st March. Nobody’s card expires on Feb.12th

The Antarctic Collection has been moved to Level 3 in the space vacated by the Official Publications.

The new Help Desk date stamp is in the drawer on the right side of the desk (closest to the printers). It is blue in colour and quite small. Maybe the person who opens the desk could change the date?

The Times Literary Supplement archive (password required to access archives, linked from Bib# 3763) has been behaving erratically since late last year. Deidre spent a while in December following up on this problem, and though it should be fine now, it was down again yesterday. So if someone reports they can’t get on, tell them it has an intermittent track record and to try again the next day. If it’s still not working then, let Deidre or Library IT know.

A word of warning: if your Canterbury Card comes in contact with your magnetic name tag, it could erase the card’s door access function. This happened to me yesterday, so I’ll have to get a new card.

The student labs will still have Endnote 9 for the start of 2007. While they may move to Endnote X during the year, this will not happen mid-term, nor without discussion with us.

The problem is with the installation routine. ICTS cannot create an installation routine for the Student Workrooms that will work without problems. Apparently this is to do with changes made by Microsoft to their installation package. ICTS have been working with both Endnote and Microsoft on this, but have not obtained a solution in time to incorporate it the installation for the start of term.

Inevitably this means that some people will be using Endnote X while others use 9. However, this should not be as bad as the Endnote 7/9 situation as libraries can be moved freely between Endnote 9 and Endnote X.
Peter Kennedy

Recently I had a query from a history postgrad who wanted to physically browse the Horrie Brown collection. For future reference, I replied to her more or less as follows…

The Horrie Brown collection is a bit of a can of worms. There is no one location for the whole collection – most are in storage, but some specific items are on the open shelves and treated as normal borrowable books, eg:

Australian trade with Middle East and North African countries : basic statistics: shelved on level 10 at HF 275 .A938 m.

Tim O’Sullivan says that those in storage are only available on request, i.e. students can’t browse them on the shelves, but library staff will retrieve the specific requested items. As they are currently in two different storage locations, there are two ways of requesting them:

(1) If the cat. record says:
Collection: Central Library Horrie Brown Colln – Ask at Help Desk:
Request these using a white request card available from the help desk.

(2) If the cat. record says:
Collection: Storage Please use the ABOVE linked form to request this item:
Request these using the Online request form link.

Obviously students need to find what they want using the catalogue. The easiest way to browse the catalogue is to enter in Author alphabetical: horrie brown. This brings up over 5000 results in a very long and unwieldy list.

You can do more specific searches by using the Keywords index, eg. enter:
– horrie brown trade
– horrie brown (nsw or new south wales)

You could also use one of the Subject indexes (or Keywords) and enter:
– australia parliament

Use the Call Number (local) index to browse items which have call numbers in the format beginning with eg. N.S.W. Parlt. Papers, or: Comm. Parlt. Papers. Enter that in Call Number (local) to retrieve a list looking like this:

3.
Comm. Parlt. papers
Teaching of migrant languages in schools : report of the Committee.
Australia. Parliament.

4.
Comm. Parlt. papers
Annual report /
Australia. Parliament.

5.
Comm. Parlt. papers 1
Report /
Australia. Parliament.

A Lift no. 11 – the lift closest to the Help Desk is not working. The fault was reported to Security at 11.15am today.

Alison Mc