Hi all, please add items to this blog whenever necessary. Thanks.
Bindery, Missing items and storage request cards
New forms now available in the usual place at the Help Desk.
Education News “blog”
Yes, plunge taken – the Education team are trialling a blog which we are calling “Education News.” This is intended to be a mixture of sectoral, college and Library news, a way of making the library a focal point for the community. We’ve avoided use of the word ‘blog’ in order not to scare the punters off, but we’ll see how it goes…
http://blogs.libr.canterbury.ac.nz/edu.php
– glen
Cheque
A cheque has been handed in- see the lost property book in the drawer. CS
Lending Services staff are happy to search for Central Library items that borrowers report absent from our shelves. Our process is to search Library Catalogue first to establish the facts e.g. the items location and status, then ask a few questions such as how long the borrower has looked for the item. The next step is to give the item a ‘missing-tracing’ status on Horizon and place a request for the person who wants it. If you do not have access to Circulation, please send the person to the Lending Desk. Please do not fill out a card – this a time consuming process which we no longer use. The online process generates a search list and is much quicker.
Wet floor in Women’s toilets
I have phoned Security to contact the Cleaners re a puddle in the disabled users toilet. Toilet is closed until it is cleaned.
problem with current year access to Springer journals
Thanks to Peter Hosking for this info….
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We currently have a problem with current year access to a number of our Springer subscriptions.
Springer have an unusual policy: they say that we have to request access each year. So although we have had access in previous years we have to ask them again this year to give us access.
Most of our subscriptions are with Swets and Ebsco so we have asked them to claim this access. This is taking some time.
regards
Peter
Painting on Level 2 & 3
On Thursday and Friday (26th and 27th April) contractors will be carrying out some trial painting on Level 3.
Further details on Camelot
Paper recycling
I have removed the rubbish bin from the left side of the desk and replaced it with a paper recycling tray now that we can recycle all paper receipts.
Electronic theses
Some former students may wish to submit their thesis electronically but no longer have a username and password. Here’s some information from Peter Kennedy:
The digital thesis upload link requires students to login – this is just to prevent others playing, but doesn’t serve any other role. Two groups of students cannot use this link.
The first group comprise those former students that no longer have a login, but need to deposit a current thesis. We email out to them this link which does not require a login:
The second group comprises those depositing a thesis retrospectively. We send them out this link:
which is a simpler form because they completed most of the documentation at the time they submitted their original print thesis.
In all cases we will also accept theses on CDs although we would normally ask them for additional details, namely Supervisor, email address, and keywords – the rest should be available from the thesis itself.
Any other enquiries to Julie Lewis or Library:IT