ICTS are having a meeting at 4pm today and due to staff sickness they are unable to cover the Help Desk from 4-6pm. The 6060 number will still be operating in case there are problems we can’t handle. The meeting will also affect coverage in the Loft.

Janette

UC Careers & Employment – new location
Level 1, Forestry Building, Forestry Road, 9am–5pm, Monday to Friday

Out of scope materials from the Engineering Library will be moved to Central Library today. Information Librarians have spent the last three weeks weeding the material in preparation for this move. The items will be stored temporarily on the empty shelves on Level 4 at the end of the PQ sequence, until labelling is sorted and they can be integrated into the main sequence. Library IT will make a global change to the collection code on the catalogue.
The material from EL is largely in the following areas: G, HD, HF, QE, QH, QE, QH, R, S, SB, SF, SK.
There may be a short period when this material is unavailable.

Janette

Some students are having problems using EconData (DX for Windows)
If they need to clear their profile, do this:

userid – profile
password – no password required

UCSA booksale will be held next week in the UCSA Study Room:
20-21st July – drop off books 8.30-4.30
22nd-23rd July – sale 8.30-4.30
27th-28th July – collect unsold books and cheques

Just a reminder that Course Mart is open on Level 1 of Central Library building for the sale of course readers. It will remain open for the first two weeks of term (closing Friday 24th July) when sales will revert to the Copy Centre.

Exam results are due out on Friday.

Janette

If you are asked about essay topics for Prep (Certificate of University Study), all the students should have been to classes in the week preceding Easter (but not all came!). These are the topics
commercial and environmental aspects of aquaculture
pros and cons of using 1080 pesticide to protect native species
negative and positive aspects of computer gaming.
overprotective parents

They need to find 3-5 sources only – newspapers and government web sites are ok, according to the tutors. In the tutorial we covered the library catalogue, Google Advanced for govt sites and the multidisciplinary databases – General Onefile, EbscoHost, ProQuest.

The trickiest topic is the overparenting one. There are 2 books on 3 hour loan
Worried all the time.
Paranoid parenting

Useful terms for database searches
helicopter child* or helicopter parent* or helicopter kid*
parent* and overinvolve*

Essay is due on Monday. Feel free to send any students to Dave, Cuiying or me.

Janette

ICTS are having a customer services group meeting between 2 and 3pm this afternoon, so there will be nobody at the Help desk nor probably in the Loft. If the issue is urgent, send the student to the ICTS building (old Help Desk location)
Janette