SuperIndex is now called New Zealand Index

and now has Index new Zealand on it as well

Have a look at it
18 October 2006
A new name for Superindex! With the addition of the National Library’s INNZ (Index New Zealand) database to Superindex, we have renamed the entire collection New Zealand Index

billion

→ cardinal number (pl. billions or (with numeral or quantifying word) same)
1. the number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a million; 1,000,000,000 or 109. • (Brit. dated) a million million (1,000,000,000,000 or 1012).
2. (billions) (informal) a very large number or amount.
– DERIVATIVES billionth ordinal number .
– ORIGIN C17: from Fr., from million, by substitution of the prefix bi- ‘two’ for the initial letters.

“billion cardinal number” The Concise Oxford English Dictionary. Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson. Oxford University Press, 2004. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Canterbury University. 11 October 2006

Postgrad borrower records have been extended for three months and most students’ records will expire around February 12th, although there are some variations.

JISC Collections Academic Database Assessment Tool
A major new resource giving librarians access to a wealth of information on key academic resources is launched today. The free resource, developed by JISC Collections in association with Nick Andrews Consultancy, provides quick and easy comparisons of the major bibliographic and citation databases currently in use by the academic community, including Web of Science, Scopus, ABI Inform, British Humanities Index and many more.

With feedback from the library community regularly suggesting that the high cost, profusion and complexity of these databases make the task of evaluating them difficult and time-consuming, JISC Collections commissioned and funded the new resource, bringing together a national user panel of librarians and information professionals to guide its development.

The Academic Database Assessment Tool provides details of the journal titles in each database, their date coverage, currency, as well as their functionality, editorial policy, indexing and a great deal more, and allows direct comparisons to be made between the resources and the different platforms on which they are available. Information can be exported into spreadsheets, allowing up to date lists of titles to be created.

Initial testing of the resource – which will continue to be developed in response to feedback – has been extremely positive, with librarians and publishers already welcoming it as an important resource which for the first time allows comparisons of the most popular databases.

Now we have no supernumeraries, please be aware of paper supplies. We particularly don’t want to run out of paper overnight or during the weekend.

The current stapler has ‘died’ this time! Marylin has ordered us a new one -it should be here in a couple of days. Pease refer students to the Copy Centre in the meantime.

Which campus map do you prefer? The one with the dotted lines, which we have been using all year or the campus parking map? There are examples of both on the Help Desk.

We have several exciting e-reference trials at present. Have a look at them and use them with students if you think they are appropriate. Any comments to Janette please.
Look for the link from the Library news on the home-page.

The Card Co-ordinator, Peter Street, has now moved (along with his card making operation) out of the Registry Concourse.

His new location is Room 109 of the Science Lecture Block. To find him, go through the main door, turn right, then left at the end, and Peter is the second room on the left.

http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/unimaps/NavMap/navigate.asp?navto=c4

Due dates for items loaned to research students truncate to an expiry date of 12/11/06. This is completely different from previous years where all research student got a standard expiry date of 28/2/next year.

The practical problem for the Library is that these research students will no longer be able to do online renewals as their expiry date falls before the current 60 day loan date.

Please advise them that they will have to do phone or in person renewals at a desk (through Horizon Circulation rather than Library Catalogue).