If students are asking for a journal article (or tutorial reading) which their lecturer was going to put in the library they will find a link to the electronic version by doing a course code search.
More about thesis portal
Some of the links on the thesis portal have changed, because of links changing on sites outside the Library. The link to the Word templates is back (now we’ve found it on the new ICTS site). The links under the Starting a thesis heading have also changed, to go to the correct place on the Learning Skills Centre page. I’ve dropped a link that was previously there to The Thesis proposal because it now comes up at the top of the Surviving your thesis page.
PSL logbook
As the PSL logbook is now obsolete it has been removed from the drawer at the front desk. If you need to refer back to anything in it you will find it alongside the How to Manual on the shelf in the workroom.
COSC CDs
Now that the COSC CDs can be borrowed by students from some AFIS courses I have made a list of the courses and pasted it on the front of the blue ringbinder which holds the signed Student Use Agreements. Please check that the borrower is enrolled in one of the courses listed before issuing either the XP or Vista CDs.
Towel in Men’s toilets
I have phoned Cleaning Services as this needs to be replaced.
MB books requestable online Reminder
All MB books (except for Aotearoa Room materials) are requestable online. Place a request in the usual manner and the book will be available at the MB desk within 10 minutes.
link to thesis template
Now fixed!!! Back on thesis web page.
On the Library’s thesis portal there used to be a link to a Word thesis template under the heading Formatting a thesis. Since the ICTS web site has been upgraded, this link has been broken.
As I can’t find where this template is now, I’ve removed the link. I’ve contacted Sean Lowry (the new Loft supervisor) to ask him if he knows where it has gone to, and if he can tell me where it is, I’ll replace the link.
LIANZA Polls
LIANZA has started doing regular polls on it’s website and the ongoing results are instantly shown but will also be summarised in Library Life each month. The first poll is on web 2.0, something that people reading this have some contact with… 🙂
Copy Centre hours
The Copy Centre at the Education campus will be staffed from 8.30 -4.30 until the end of May.js
ComAbstracts
ComAbstracts is one of two new databases for communication and journalism. It contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communications field. Our subscription includes access to all services offered by CIOS such as the Electronic Journal of Communication, ComIndex, the Visual Communication Concept Explorer and ComVista.
The other new database is the Chapman Archive: the Robert and Noeline Chapman Audio Visual Archive is “New Zealand’s largest and most continuous collection of broadcast news and current affairs available in an ‘as broadcast’ form.” The Archive is a searchable online database of content from programmes broadcast on NZ television and radio, dating back to the 1960s, with regular recording of news and current affairs programmes from mid-1984.
A password is required to access the Chapman Archive (registered University of Canterbury users only).