One of the LibCen printers requires a maintenance kit B. However, Ricoh do not get automatic messages telling them about maintenance kits, only about toner cartridges. So you do need to phone the 0800 number and quote the serial number to get action on kits. They will send a technician out tomorrow.
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EndNote Styles, Connection files and filters
EndNote X2 is now automatically available on students’ individual logins. However sometimes the correct styles, connection files and filters do not appear. To remedy this, go to EndNote – Edit -Preferences and check that the preferences are pointing to the N drive and the correct X2 styles, connection files and filters.
Colour Printing in Central Library
To print to the new colour printer outside the Copy Centre, students can simply select the following printer from the drop down menu:
CopyCentreColour on cantwso.
Students should be aware that if they send a black & white job to this printer, it will be charged at colour prices (85c)
The ColourPass printer is still available but prints to the PC inside the Copy Centre and requires the student to ask Copy Centre staff to release the job.
Article published in HiTech News
Congratulations to Cuiying whose article entitled Using RSS feeds and social bookmarking tools to keep current has just been published in Library Hi Tech News 25 (9), 2008. The article is based on a teaching session for staff and postgraduates developed by Cuiying and Kerry Gilmour in 2007, and taught several times over the last couple of years.
Telephone directories in CL
Telephone directories have been shifted from behind the Help Desk to the end of the Reference Collection above the electoral rolls.
Canterbury Card update
This year, Canterbury cards may be ready to go as soon as 30 minutes after they are made for students. There will be no credit on cards this year, but students should be able to login to a student install PC and use their student email, UC Student, library catalogue etc. Charging will only kick in when they leave the Canterbury website.
Printing is still 9c per page but is expected to drop to 7c in the near future.
Janette
Breakout Database
There have been enquiries lately about the Breakout scholarships database. Neither the library nor the Scholarships Office subscribe to this resource now. Students are advised to consult the UC Scholarships web page or visit the Scholarships Office on Level 3 of the Registry.
Janette
StudyLink Office
The campus StudyLink Office is located in the UCSA building – it is well signposted.
ICT/Library Service Desk
Today is the first day of the new shared Library and ICTS Help Desk based in the Central Library. Please note that students should no longer be sent to the ICTS Help Desk (building behind the bookshop) as their needs will be serviced in the Library. As a well as an ICTS staff person on the desk there will be an ICTS rover. Students will be able to book the rover to come to their PC in the Central Library and assist with wireless connections, EndNote installations etc (More details on this service later). Hours of the joint desk are 8.30-6 Monday-Friday.
Janette
Publishing LibGuides
We are at the point where many LibGuides are almost ready to be linked to our subject page replacing the old subject guides. We would like to get as many guides as possible live on libguides before 23rd Feb. To get your guide ready for this process, do the following:
1. Publish your guide
Go to: Status – Change Guide Status
Add the course code to the Friendly URL – if there isn’t an obvious course code consult Library IT
Select the subject category from the list provided and click the Associate Tab. Repeat process if you want to add your guide to more than one subject category. We have tried to shorten the list of subject categories because of space display issues on the libguides home-page. However, open for discussion – send suggestions to Janette
Change the status to Published visible to everyone
2. Add a description
Go to Guide settings – Change Title/Description
Type a brief description which will appear at the top of your guide and in the index
e.g. This guide is to assist international students who are studying English language at UC
3. Add tags
Go to Guide settings – Add or Edit Tags.
Add the course code and guide name, also names of topic guides or other synonyms
e.g. American Studies uses tags – amst, american_studies, american_literature, united_states etc.
For phrases use underscore eg. stable_isotopes. Use lower case
4. Click on any Tabs with drop down menus. You need to be in Preview.
Click on the blue tab itself not any of the drop down options.
A home-page should have been automatically created at the point of publication for every tab where there are drop down options if this page has not been set up with anything else.
If there is content on the page that you don’t want, simply delete the boxes and a home-page will be created. If unsure check with Library IT or a colleague.
5. Check profile images
If these are fuzzy, ask Library IT to resize.
6. Proofread everything and check every link
7. Notify Library IT that your guide is ready to be linked. Library IT need to know the name of the Guide, the friendly URL and the current subject guide it is replacing. If it’s not a current guide
Alison J, Catherine, Deborah or Janette are happy to assist with these steps.
Note: we are keeping the existing subject guide home-page until all subject guides have been converted to libguide format. Then the subject guides home-page on libguides can be fully implemented.