The Spanish subject guide has been added to the UK website Intute, maintained by a consortium of UK universities and partners, under Spanish Studies. It is described as follows:
“The library of the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) has made available a subject guide of Spanish Studies which brings together a healthy number of resources within this field. The site is not just designed to facilitate the process of finding resources at the library of the University of Canterbury, but it may also be used as a means to access: bibliographies of Spanish literature; guidelines on citation styles; lists of journals and databases; films; websites; and news and events. Some tips on assignment research are also provided. The site includes information on the Julio Campal Experimental Poetry Collection at the university library. It provides resources on contemporary Hispanic poetry, and visual and experimental poetry in particular. All together this is an indispensable resource for students of Spanish and Latin American Studies.”
A series of focus articles that examine technology developments, and what they mean for access to vital scholarly research, has been published online in the journal European Review. Representatives of four main players in the scholarly world have been invited to present their views: publishers, research funding organisations, community of researchers, and libraries. They give successful examples of Open Access, but also consider the problems and barriers as well. Max
Erin Kimber is now the history information librarian, expanding her role from NZ history only based in MB.
As for me, after being responsible for history for about a decade, I think it’s high time to give someone else a go, and I’m very pleased that we now have Erin to take it on!
320 COMS 1st year students have been given a library pathfinder exercise, requiring them to use the COMS subject guide and catalogue, and find various types of resources on the shelves. The main object of the exercise is to get them into the library and using it.
Feel free to help COMS students with it if any come to help desk – there’s nothing difficult about it. However a little confusion may be caused because it is last year’s exercise, from before the COMS guide was rejigged as a libguide. I have now sent a revised version through to the Dept.
There are now information links for each of the Ebsco databases being trialled, on the database trials page. For instance, the info page for Communication & Mass Media Complete includes a coverage list, a couple of reviews, and a summary of contents, as well as a database description. This makes it much easier to find out what each database offers, for anyone who might be interested in sending in feedback.
History students may come to the help desk asking for help with this exercise, particularly question no. 3a, AJHR. It asks them to look up ‘Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents’, 1954, and gives a hint to “use the relevant index – a separate volume – and look up Children, or Moral Delinquency.” However the index is not a separate volume, it is in the back of vol. 4 for 1954. The report is at H.47 in the same volume.
