tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41125004855835937882024-02-19T00:55:47.431-08:00Librarians' Blog for ArtsThe University Of Sheffield. The University Library.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger254125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-5821305364471320822016-08-15T07:18:00.000-07:002016-08-15T07:18:02.377-07:00The Corvey Collection<div>
The history of the Corvey Collection - which has recently been added to the University Library's digital collections as part of <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/ncco" target="_blank">Nineteenth Century Collections Online</a> (NCCO) - is a fascinating one. It was once the private library of the Landgrave of Hesse-Roterberg and kept at his princely residence, a converted Benidictine monastery - the eponymous Castle Corvey. The library was partially digitized by the University of Paderborn before it was discovered by Anglophone scholars in the mid-90s. The full story is available <a href="http://gdc.galegroup.com/gdc/ncco/archive/actionWin?resetBreadCrumb=&query=&prodId=NCCO&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&limiter=&showDisambiguation=true&u=su_uk&displayGroups=&p=NCCO&action=e&catId=YISJQL160172609&scanId=" target="_blank">here</a>. As an electronic collection it is now available to University of Sheffield researchers and consists of over 17,500 full-text, downloadable monographs - mainly novels - covering the period 1790-1840.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/The_former_Corvey_Abbey%2C_c._1925-1930.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/The_former_Corvey_Abbey%2C_c._1925-1930.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">By Photo uncredited, c. 1925-1930 (Postcard.: Verlag Julius Henze Buch- u. Kunsthandlung (Co.)) (eBay.com) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Romanticists and Gothicists will no doubt be attracted to the idea of a 19th Century aristocrat reading novels alone in his Castle while going gently mad*, but it is worth emphasising how truly remarkable the collection is. It contains many English works of the period that are not thought available elsewhere and a great number of foreign language works. The editors of the collection are also keen to point out the number or works written by women included. The works are produced in facsimile so include original illustrations and type-settings.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Therefore, as well as scholars of the 19th Century, there is also great potential for those studying female writing, or for scholars of visual or print culture. There are a number of translated works not previously held by Sheffield that will be of interest to language scholars. All the text is also downloadable in OCR format for those engaged in digital humanities or text-mining research.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<b><u>Using the Collection</u></b></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Use the advanced search option to search for individual titles or authors, or search for phrases contained within the full-text. You can also search for individual media and illustration types via the advanced search. As part of NCCO all the content can be searched with that of the other modules.<br /><div>
<br /></div>
<div>
*(NB There is no proof that anybody went mad from reading these novels)</div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18145238493297208834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-73754630905340265452016-08-08T07:08:00.002-07:002016-08-08T07:08:35.697-07:00Sketch Engine<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/sketchengine" target="_blank">Sketch Engine</a> is a new library resource bought as part of the strategic funds process. It provides access to dozens of corpora that can be searched and manipulated with Sketch Engine's unique functionality. The corpora are millions and billions of words in size and allow linguists and lexicographers to study the relationships between words, types of words and phrases in over 80 languages. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is a specialist resource for computational linguists and very much supports the work in digital humanities that is being undertaken at the University of Sheffield and led by the Humanities Research Institute, but it is also hoped that it will open up new interdisciplinary opportunities for the study of language in relationship to other subject areas. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
Increasingly academic libraries are involved in advocating for content to made available in ways that can be interrogated with computational research methods. Sketch engine represents one commercial example of this but, as a sector, we are aware of these growing areas of research and are working to break down the restrictions that publishers often place on material that obstructs this<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sketch engine comes with its own comprehensive user guide. University of Sheffield users, if logged in to MUSE, should use the institutional login</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18145238493297208834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-42223597638129972512016-08-02T03:58:00.001-07:002016-08-02T04:01:28.651-07:00Dublin Castle Records 1798-1926<br />
The Library has recently made a number of strategic purchases to support Teaching, Learning and Research across the Faculties and Departments of the University. One of these new additions to our collections is the digitized archive of <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/au" target="_blank">the Dublin Castle Records</a>.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioj_UWOCaHvJgvgf2we11ysIfeycIao8C-ciwPEAG-9E_2KVCEexDZdmvnKogrkrS4XzgdlyMgqiAyPEdFNL3JRJBUST4OROT6gh0Kvg7bcGN3EY15G9Wphp73J4K8HcaRmp5pWmU8W2dq/s1600/Dublin%252C_Castle.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioj_UWOCaHvJgvgf2we11ysIfeycIao8C-ciwPEAG-9E_2KVCEexDZdmvnKogrkrS4XzgdlyMgqiAyPEdFNL3JRJBUST4OROT6gh0Kvg7bcGN3EY15G9Wphp73J4K8HcaRmp5pWmU8W2dq/s400/Dublin%252C_Castle.png" title="Dublin Castle (Wikimedia)" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
The Dublin Castle Records are the records of the British administration in Ireland and this collection covers the period from the rebellions of 1798 through the Nineteenth Century to the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War. They include the records of the Royal Irish Constabulary with the monthly reports and statistical breakdowns from divisional police commissioners and county inspectors detailing Irish responses to British policy. Also included are confidential papers and surveillance reports on outlawed nationalist organisations as well as dealing with broader and related themes such as labour disputes, land unrest in the West of Ireland and the militarization of Ulster Unionism. The key figures from the movement for Irish independence are present as are Irish cultural figures who came into contact with the administration during this period.<br />
<br />
T<span style="font-family: inherit;">he archive is of obvious interest to anyone studying Irish political history. It is an essential record of the Irish Revolution increasing the ability <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">of students to undertake effective research for course assignments, dissertations, and MA and PhD theses. Beyond this there is potential for those engaged in the study of policing methods, political activism or broader studies of the 19th Century and beyond.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Using the archive...</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The archive is digitized from the collection held in the UK National Archives. It is divided into larger thematic documents with these documents being full-text searchable, although be aware that many of the handwritten documents will not take the full search. It is possible to download as PDFs sections of the text for work offline or in combination with other platforms. The Dublin Castle record is hosted on the wider Archives unbound platform and it is thus possible to combine searches with other archives held there.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18145238493297208834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-18417559069971133852016-07-11T06:10:00.000-07:002016-07-11T07:35:46.496-07:00Access thousands of play texts online using Drama Online<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-8f880900-da09-0b7a-c1c0-93165a75be0c" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-8f880900-da09-0b7a-c1c0-93165a75be0c" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfzTw182uJ5TMxmrfv_VwBVTcTmfntledP195CVRKH6Atkkd1IcpkvJzBd3n4vsp4Ddjw8WIX-Cii61wFjd2g7DBTIpavnlAitlI_wtxFKrO6UEwH6u7dcGwQ07aTkXNGUPj9rlRVTDDjc/s1600/Love%2526Information.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfzTw182uJ5TMxmrfv_VwBVTcTmfntledP195CVRKH6Atkkd1IcpkvJzBd3n4vsp4Ddjw8WIX-Cii61wFjd2g7DBTIpavnlAitlI_wtxFKrO6UEwH6u7dcGwQ07aTkXNGUPj9rlRVTDDjc/s320/Love%2526Information.jpg" width="208" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/dramaonline" target="_blank">Drama Online</a> is a fantastic resource for anyone studying or performing theatre, which can be accessed through the University of Sheffield Library. The collection features full text digital versions of over 2000 plays from over 500 playwrights. These include, among others, William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Caryl Churchill, Bertolt Brecht, debbie tucker green, and John Osborne. The coverage is growing with the works of Samuel Beckett and over 100 additional plays from Nick Hern Books - a leading UK publisher of performing arts materials - being some recent additions.</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Plays can be browsed by genre or time period, as well as by the playwright or practitioner name. You can also search for plays with a particular number of roles or scenes. Drama Online includes biographical information about each playwright and contextual information about each play and its original performance. </span></div>
<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The plays themselves include embedded commentary and textual notes. Signing up for a personal account gives you access to the annotation tools. You can bookmark particular lines and add your own tags and notes. If necessary you can also print your notes along with the section of the play they refer to. Drama Online have produced some helpful video tutorials about the different functionality of the site. These are available on the left hand side of the <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/dramaonline" target="_blank">Drama Online homepage</a>. </span></div>
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To get to Drama Online simply search StarPlus for <b>Drama Online</b>, follow the links to full text access and to <b>Connect to Drama Online</b>. Next time you can leave that <i>Collected Works of Shakespeare</i> at home!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Image credit: Nick Hern Books </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03451182285290189113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-2079524511408067282016-06-23T06:07:00.000-07:002016-06-23T06:07:08.425-07:00Where is the Library with ebooks?<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">EBooks and the Library</span></b></span></div>
<b id="docs-internal-guid-e8937f49-7d47-6af6-be2f-2908759cf060" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Library buys books, this much everybody understands, but when it comes to buying ebooks for a university library the complexity of the market can sometimes be hard to convey. It is a shifting complexity where libraries and universities are being dictated to by publishers in a way that often makes it hard to deliver the books in the way we want to our users. As an illustrative example of this, it is worth sharing a recent case study from work with the Department of History. </span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People have differing preferences between print and ebooks. In libraries, we are information professionals and interested in delivering info by the most effective means. We work on a case by case basis and have been driven by user behaviour. There are plenty of examples where the printed book is the better medium, but it is not the purpose here to indulge in that debate. Rather, it is analyse a few of the assumptions about ebooks and dispel a few myths by way of a real life example</span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a rule, we like ebooks. They provide wider access than print - and often more economically than buying multiple copies. We can deliver them to whole year groups at a time because they are covered by licenses we don’t have to ask for permission or pay expensive fees (as we do when scanning/photocopying print book chapters for reading lists). Ebooks do not take up physical space in the library and push out less used books from our research collection. Increasingly, students want to be able to access a book when they need it off-campus, from home - which could be anywhere in the world - and they want the functionality of an electronic resource that can be integrated with the way they study. For these reasons, at Sheffield we have a strategy of preferring ebooks unless otherwise specified. </span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Although Amazon like to imply that every book can be made available as an ebook it is not the reality. Even if it were, kindle ebooks (and their competitor formats) are licensed specifically so that cannot be shared by a library’s community. For academic books the picture is more patchy still. Just as some hardbacks never make it to paperback, so many books are not produced in e-formats. Academic Ebooks exist under different platforms and different formats with ever-changing license models designed for the commercial needs of the publisher rather than the end-user needs of readers. It would be fair to say it is a market that has yet to fully mature and settle.</span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">‘Case study’</span></b></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">History delivers a L1 UG module where students study a seminal text in depth. As they would be looking at whole text over a semester, supplying the reading via <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/eoffprints" target="_blank">e-offprint approach</a> was out. Rather than the department buying them as disposable textbooks we set out to deliver them as ebooks via the library. This then gave a list of texts that are not obscure and that were assumed to be well-regarded enough for the publishers to make available as (library purchasable) ebooks. The preferred ebook format is the replenishing credit model (outlined further below) as this provides the broadest access to our students, generally at the best price. </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is a specialist team within the Library who take care of book supply, and will order books in the most appropriate format. As subject librarians we are less involved in that part of the process, and it is easy to make assumptions about availability. The results then are illustrative of the complexity of ebooks.</span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /></b><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; clear: left; color: black; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="196" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Gxl4o8A9leyZ1No3Ji5414nvNnYMRTFtssoWe-9pqkox-JPIXuB2QP9LoyA_qmDYiFjg4Ja17uQenJmmwUrpszfk_1phOG0yepsJvl7S66ZcUkU-k6_Rfz2yGurviRNTKrpqSy3W" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="320" /></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;">
<table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><colgroup><col width="139"></col><col width="77"></col></colgroup><tbody>
<tr style="height: 32px;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E-Book (Credit)</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ACLS</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E-Book (User)</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kindle Only</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No E-Book</span></div>
</td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7</span></div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17/31 are available as (Library) Ebooks. So, we are only able to deliver just over half electronically (only 16/31 are currently available for kindle download). For the others we will rely on ‘old-fashioned’ multiple print copies and the reservation system (which will automatically order extra copies based on demand). Ignoring Single-user ebooks (which are problematic see below) we are only able to deliver 13/31 in our preferred way, which is surprising when the expectation was we would be able to deliver the vast majority.</span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also, it is worthy noting that of the 17 books that are available as ebooks they are delivered via at least 6 different platforms again showing the complexity that needs to be navigated when dealing with the ebook market.</span></div>
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">What are some of the models?</span></b></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Credit Model (replenishing)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">The library has a number of credits (200-400) which equate to the number of times a resource is viewed. (they can be downloaded) These credits last for a year and are replenished. If you run out you buy another ‘copy’. This model provides the most flexibility, and is generally the most economic - copies are expensive but provide a lot more coverage than a print copy. Large classes can all view a resource at the same time</span><br />
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Single-user / Multi-user*</b></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One user can view the resource at any one time, or you can buy extra copies for multiple users at any time. If another user turns up they have to wait in a queue until one of those reading logs-off and frees us the license. If, as often happens, a whole class needs to read a resource in a relatively short period it makes it hard to provide coverage without buying multiple - much more expensive than print - copies.</span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>*There has been a trend amongst some publishers to swap to this model unilaterally without telling us. Meaning we often go from having sufficient coverage to inadequate coverage</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Packages</b></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5 of the books are part of a package we subscribe to. In this instance <a href="http://www.humanitiesebook.org/" target="_blank">ACLS Ebooks</a>. Most of these are not available as a library or commercial ebook. They were digitised as a result of a scheme by American Council of Learned Societies. These are books the publishers often find uneconomic to digitise. These are then made available to universities for a subscription fee.</span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Free / OpenAccess Ebook</b></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plenty of books are made available free through things like <a href="http://www.doabooks.org/" target="_blank">DOAB</a>. Or they have been made available OpenAccess because the author (or their research funders) has paid the publisher. This then is integrated into the wider library catalogue by our metadata colleagues</span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Download only</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Essentiually like the model used for kindle, but without the associated ability to share. It is akin to the library buying a copy and giving it away from the collection. It is not a sustainable model, and in may cases the publishers won’t sell to libraries as they will not agree to their licensing terms</span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Low Credit (Non replenishing)</b></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Offering numbers of credits that are too low to be useful, also we do not maintain the book within the library collection it gradually degrades and then disappears </span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>No Ebook Option</b></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite the fact that modern publishers type-set electronically and will send this version to be printed, some still find it uneconomical (ie they can make more money bay not doing it) to make the text available as an ebook.</span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">What next?</span></b></span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Libraries are interested in provided access to resources in as economical way as possible, hopefully via a method that suits our users. The ebook market is a fact of life that sometimes makes achieving this harder. However, we will always get the books needed and in many cases that is still by relying on print. We are also - as a sector - involved in advocacy for a more transparent market.</span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Increasingly people expect ebooks, and ebooks available in a format that is useful to them. The OpenAccess agenda that began in academic journal publishing is now developing fast for the publication of monographs. Academic books are produced from the research of academics working within our universities, it is strange that these institutions are then required to buy this back at inflated prices. In this respect commercial publishers are a barrier to the wider consumption and impact of this research. The vagaries of the ebook market demonstrate this. So if you are a researcher thinking about publication you should consider what restrictions your publisher is likely to place on your work. </span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- If you would like to discuss publishing options further there is a dedicated <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/openaccess" target="_blank">OpenAccess team</a> within the library</span></div>
<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- If you have any problems with existing ebooks please report them to our eservcies team via the link on StarPlus.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18145238493297208834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-11063857056538198062016-06-08T03:20:00.001-07:002016-06-08T04:59:23.889-07:00Migration to New WorldsThe library has recently bought a new digital archive - <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/migration" target="_blank">Migrations to New Worlds</a>. It focuses on the the movement of people's from the Old World (largely Europe and Asia) to the New (the Americas and Australasia). The earliest material dates back to the late 17th Century with the major focus being on the period of mass migration during the 19th and 20th Century.<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiE9IUJthqBlyTE9x6MEslqnvSp2_JjUXEy_-eWWhWswSrh-vZG0FIMR_bupYrV1BFJIIcpv_Li-8SO79GYE-HjHNmP7YHKOSOfQVhtqBVdAK-20wqFoWbpcdA4MqIIXAIY5rqaGg6_0mw/s1600/SS-Oregon.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiE9IUJthqBlyTE9x6MEslqnvSp2_JjUXEy_-eWWhWswSrh-vZG0FIMR_bupYrV1BFJIIcpv_Li-8SO79GYE-HjHNmP7YHKOSOfQVhtqBVdAK-20wqFoWbpcdA4MqIIXAIY5rqaGg6_0mw/s400/SS-Oregon.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">S.S. Oregon (Screw Steamer). Rigging (No.274), 1883-1884, © National Museums Liverpool: Maritime Archives & Library (from Migration to New Worlds - Adam Mathew)</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
It is a fully digitized archive with many of the items being transcribed as well to allow for full text searching. It has been arranged and cataloged thematically to allow easier searching of the archive Its resources are drawn from a wide range of sources including the British Library, the National Archives, and a range of maritime museums and archives that specialise in the subject of migration and settlement. (<a href="http://www.migration.amdigital.co.uk/Introduction/ParticipatingLibraries" target="_blank">see full list here</a>)<br />
<br />
The resources have a broad scope and include personal accounts and correspondence, shipping papers and logbooks, scrapbooks, legals papers and other ephemera. There are also photographs, watercolours, maps and ship's plans with the images from all the documents being available separately for embedding as content into your research or teaching. The archive also includes a number of audio and video oral history recordings, alongside more interactive resources that can be used as useful introductions to the subjects for new learners.<br />
<br />
A recording of the publisher's webinar on Migration to New Worlds is available <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy5aqbynpds&feature=youtu.be&utm_campaign=1316562_WF%20Jisc%20Migration%20Recording&utm_medium=email%2Cb.a.steel%40sheffield.ac.uk&utm_source=%2CUniversity%20of%20Sheffield%2CBrenda%20Steel%2CSouth%20Yorkshire&dm_i=2D0N,S7V6,57CMFW,1ZXWT,1" target="_blank">here</a><br />
<br />
It should be of interest to anyone studying the history of migration but also more generally to historians of America or Australia. There are applications for gender and family studies within immigrant communities. Linguists should find a breadth of material available, and there are no doubt many other research opportunities for individuals studying aspects of the 19th and 20th century experience.<br />
<br />
If you require any more information or would like a more in depth introduction to the product please get in touch with your subject librarian Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18145238493297208834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-39740842174962221132016-03-21T05:59:00.001-07:002016-03-23T07:30:24.085-07:00Are you ready for the REF?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/openaccess/ref"><img alt="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/openaccess/ref" border="0" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUer1XcLojhMIRXtxzRwKQOalw3onRklUipU_PqLyJA21IOP_URA4GvlZAsTt1jtfPfAE-HUCKm6yM-g1yMTH4tlWIBNmycJdMEzwfmzVVum6ZzwANPFWX-OTOMCHtbfGv4ZfGHPyAd3AJ/s320/readyforref.png" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To be eligible for the next REF, all your articles and conference papers published after the <b>1st April 2016</b> must be deposited in an open access repository within three months of acceptance. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To meet these requirements, you can deposit your Author Accepted Manuscript in <b>MyPublications</b>. We will then upload it to <b>White Rose Research Online</b>, our open access repository.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To find out how to do this, and learn more about Open Access, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">visit our </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/openaccess" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Open Access webpages</a>. </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You may also wish to</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">read </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ris/how-it-all-works">How it all works</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, a new series of guides for researchers. <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ris/how-it-all-works-downloads">Issue one </a>gives
an excellent introduction to the key issues relating to Open Access and
research data, and the services available to help you maximise the
impact of your research outputs.</span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ris/how-it-all-works"><img alt="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ris/how-it-all-works" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXZYcNds9Ap2BsanyFEYhpoYDCD4WBM2IfC0gEZyiHLg_rSbLUwIi5UQlZuT32-4YKoGMGa6Nj0Eo_VMZ0cEFAUM7lj_hcSIqjFOvIkKJlELB3LYFIBQOERaswRMvdaO86bOQHb1GAMup0/s1600/How_it_all_works.jpg" /></a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03451182285290189113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-76090826901457998012016-01-21T06:59:00.000-08:002016-01-21T06:59:56.004-08:00Is it ever ok…? Libraries and learning spaces<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KZwaEVkcyNs/VqDyICAdnSI/AAAAAAAABd4/021SyTEx3Xg/s1600/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KZwaEVkcyNs/VqDyICAdnSI/AAAAAAAABd4/021SyTEx3Xg/s400/1.png" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Tell us what you think<o:p></o:p></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">We would like to hear your comments regarding the responsible use of learning spaces. For example, do you have any thoughts on the following? <o:p></o:p></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br />
<ul style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Is it ever ok to leave your belongings at a study space while you are elsewhere?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</li>
</ul>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" />
<ul style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Is it ever ok to sit at a PC space while you are not using the PC?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</li>
</ul>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" />
<ul style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Is it ever ok to leave litter and food waste at a learning space?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</li>
</ul>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Please go to this <a href="http://shef.ac.uk/learning-spaces/ok" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">web page</span></a> to add your thoughts, submit your own solutions and vote on other people's ideas. The most popular ideas will be formally considered in consultation with Students Union officers. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-4025257367922308842016-01-14T03:34:00.002-08:002016-01-14T03:34:37.481-08:00Exam Plus - helping you to succeed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eozUMGmZjxM/VpeHvZJWQCI/AAAAAAAABZ0/eGFStkfRBVw/s1600/CampaignBanner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eozUMGmZjxM/VpeHvZJWQCI/AAAAAAAABZ0/eGFStkfRBVw/s640/CampaignBanner.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
The Library has launched <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/examplus/intro">Exam Plus</a>; everything you need to succeed in your exam in one place.<br />
<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Find a Space</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Find Skills</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Find a PC</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Find Help</li>
</ul>
<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-57391370294207741172016-01-07T07:43:00.003-08:002016-01-07T07:46:16.446-08:00Using your e-shelf<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nJIw6vJvKgE/Vo6INRMJnyI/AAAAAAAABRg/dMjybnnAwIs/s1600/screenshot-find.shef.ac.uk%2B2016-01-07%2B15-45-26.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="88" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nJIw6vJvKgE/Vo6INRMJnyI/AAAAAAAABRg/dMjybnnAwIs/s320/screenshot-find.shef.ac.uk%2B2016-01-07%2B15-45-26.png" width="320" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
Our new video shows you how to make the most out of StarPlus by using your e-shelf. <a href="http://library-isr-dev.group.shef.ac.uk/eshelf-2/?platform=hootsuite">You can view it here</a><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-83506635368659281232015-12-18T07:36:00.002-08:002015-12-18T07:39:12.925-08:00Christmas Vacation 2015<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you’re away from Sheffield for the Christmas Vacation remember that the Library can offer support to students in various ways:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" />
<br />
<ul style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxnjFHzXQOuR_Rwf95kW0ntMlO0tLphFsn5LMMDLSkYpljpc7hyXM8Khh7qi16xrIcMgtTfheuoE1SIwQRRTN1dwZWujMQzUAx3kyAw0HFiqq6HH3EypqF0SGVHvKBd_GGs3-tj7ReU4o/s1600/Christmas+tree+2015.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #888888; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxnjFHzXQOuR_Rwf95kW0ntMlO0tLphFsn5LMMDLSkYpljpc7hyXM8Khh7qi16xrIcMgtTfheuoE1SIwQRRTN1dwZWujMQzUAx3kyAw0HFiqq6HH3EypqF0SGVHvKBd_GGs3-tj7ReU4o/s320/Christmas+tree+2015.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="162" /></a>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://librarydevelopment.group.shef.ac.uk/index.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Information Skills Resource</a> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">features helpful tutorials on literature searching, referencing, plagiarism and more<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
</ul>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span><o:p></o:p></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" />
<ul style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you have a question about the Library, take a look at </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://libraryhelp.shef.ac.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Library Connect</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, a database of frequently asked questions</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" />
<ul style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you’re having trouble accessing electronic resources check the</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;"> <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/intro/eserviceindicators" style="color: #9a8abf;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">eResources service status page</span></a></span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" />
<ul style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For further help you can contact the Library HelpDesk in the following ways:<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Email: </span></b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="mailto:library@sheffield.ac.uk" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">library@sheffield.ac.uk</span></a> </span></b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Phone: 0114 222 7200 <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(Please note that the HelpDesk will not be staffed during Christmas closure days: Friday 25 December to Sunday 3 January inclusive)</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Merry Christmas! </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-18937124875230991782015-12-17T06:45:00.000-08:002015-12-17T07:51:06.720-08:00Penn Corpora of Historical English<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of interest to students studying the history of English, (</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">especially the historical syntax of the language), the </span><a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/penn" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Penn Corpora of Historical English</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are running texts and text samples of British English prose across its history - from the earliest Middle English documents up to the First World War. This online version includes:</span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-3820ceef-b05e-1931-1f17-acd46343a56f"><br /></span>
<br />
<ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 31px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English, Second Edition (PPCME2)</span></div>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 31px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English (PPCEME)</span></div>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 31px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English (PPCMBE)</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div>
<span style="color: #414042; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #414042; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #414042; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Click under 'Quick Links' to visit the resource. Remember to make sure you're logged into Muse</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-21511796212656526322015-12-10T07:39:00.000-08:002015-12-10T07:39:57.801-08:00Christmas Vacation Loans<span style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: black;">As you know, we usually renew your books for you automatically. But over the Christmas holidays things are a bit different.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Renewals<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<br />
<ul style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We will try to automatically renew your loans on 12 December, but just in case there's any problems, such as another student requesting your book, please remember to check your library account through StarPlus, and renew any items due for return before going home for the holiday period.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Once the book has been renewed, you’ll be able to keep it over the vacation period, and as long as no-one else requests it, we will continue to renew it for you once term starts.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">However, if someone does make a request for a book that you have on loan, we won’t be able to renew it after the vacation and you will need to bring it back to us by 18 January.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 11.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Requests</span></strong></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 11.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
</div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><br />
<ul style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 21.3pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If we don’t have a physical copy of the book you need, remember to check StarPlus to see if we have it as an e-book.</span></div>
</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 21.3pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you have made any requests for books that you no longer need over Christmas, please remember to cancel them online.</span></div>
</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 21.3pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you need any more information about borrowing items from the University library, please contact <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:library@sheffield.ac.uk" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">library@sheffield.ac.uk</a></span></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-51250039656588791512015-12-10T07:28:00.001-08:002015-12-10T07:28:49.968-08:00Trial electronic resources<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">The Library has arranged trial access to the following online resources. These services can be accessed by University of Sheffield staff and students for a limited time only:<o:p></o:p></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2011</span></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4VSIZyVsx364pINg3lCdu9WUOjsLgIxb2bTHLrk3e5SHz9hJaBwQKGo9HGI-xC0QNIbBcvsibn-7iQ9KfcN1sksG4T5EDxu9XngYJBKBR0vP-54eMbK_VciICWP2FjnumPiNkijbH_iE/s1600/The+Economist+Historical+Archive.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4VSIZyVsx364pINg3lCdu9WUOjsLgIxb2bTHLrk3e5SHz9hJaBwQKGo9HGI-xC0QNIbBcvsibn-7iQ9KfcN1sksG4T5EDxu9XngYJBKBR0vP-54eMbK_VciICWP2FjnumPiNkijbH_iE/s200/The+Economist+Historical+Archive.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">The Economist was established in 1843 to campaign for free trade and freedom of the individual. The complete archive (1843-2011) is available, with editorial, advertising and tabular matter all fully searchable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Trial access is available from this <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/trialecon" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">web page</span></a> (see <b>Quick links</b> on the right hand side of the page). The trial ends on 31 December 2015.<o:p></o:p></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010</span></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmAf2KOlK6Wwfo6b2CndYGJkwMu184wffY6J-9C60-RHZU1u-WCGr9wB7NtPmdkmGt0hUKNm1moAB0GU96HAuc3hleKqhhGER2zFsIAX_-N-MBRcx__C5gsRxD0ncIY9vYW-pKD-7JH18/s1600/The+Financial+Times+Historical+Archive.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="86" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmAf2KOlK6Wwfo6b2CndYGJkwMu184wffY6J-9C60-RHZU1u-WCGr9wB7NtPmdkmGt0hUKNm1moAB0GU96HAuc3hleKqhhGER2zFsIAX_-N-MBRcx__C5gsRxD0ncIY9vYW-pKD-7JH18/s200/The+Financial+Times+Historical+Archive.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="color: #414042; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="color: #414042; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: black;">The complete searchable facsimile run of the daily business newspaper, from 1888 to 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Trial access is available from this <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/trialft" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">web page</span></a> (see <b>Quick links</b> on the right hand side of the page). The trial ends on 31 December 2015.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>The Japan Times Digital Archive, 1897-2014<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman';"></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Japan Times Digital Archive includes digital and searchable scans of all pages published in The Japan Times between 1897 and 2014. The Japan Times is the English language daily newspaper published in Japan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman';"></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Trial access is available from this <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/trialjtarchive" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">web page</span></a> (see <b>Quick links</b> on the right hand side of the page). The trial ends on 22 December 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman';"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Feedback<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman';"></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">We welcome your comments on these trial resources: <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/trialfeedback" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">online feedback form</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman';"></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">You can also request a trial by using this <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/requesttrial" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">online request form</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman';"></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">For a full list of trial electronic resources, please see this <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/trial" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">web page</span></a></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-29427370043952456312015-12-09T07:39:00.000-08:002015-12-09T07:39:00.887-08:00The Map Collection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vwgnAN6ygI8/VmGzmPo-kUI/AAAAAAAABNg/LPqPzeH0jms/s1600/Maps_web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vwgnAN6ygI8/VmGzmPo-kUI/AAAAAAAABNg/LPqPzeH0jms/s640/Maps_web.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
Western Bank Library houses the library's map collection. The whole country is covered at a scale of 1:25,000 and 1:50,000. Larger scale maps are available for local areas (North Derbyshire, South Yorkshire) at a scale of 1:2,500 and 1:10,000. Sheffield is covered in greater detail; 1:500 and 1:1,250. There is a wide range of historical maps (mainly 1850´s onward) as well as geology maps for England, Scotland and Wales at a scale 1:50,000. The collection also includes<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Aerial photos covering Sheffield and Rotherham for 1992</li>
<li>A good range of atlases and gazetteers</li>
<li>A small collection of foreign maps used for teaching and research.</li>
</ul>
<div>
Alongside the physical map collection the library also has a subscription to <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/digimap">Digimap</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
For information on how to consult maps in Western Bank Library see our <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/subjects/mapulr">Map Collection Subject Guide</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-6728081207676787632015-12-04T03:41:00.000-08:002015-12-04T04:53:17.300-08:00Extra Help Week, 7 - 13 December<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iD7bC3xdSoQ/VmF7pYwBXZI/AAAAAAAABNQ/QuD_Sa-cAYM/s1600/WebBannernew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iD7bC3xdSoQ/VmF7pYwBXZI/AAAAAAAABNQ/QuD_Sa-cAYM/s640/WebBannernew.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Extra Help Week (7-13 December) is the perfect opportunity to catch up on tips and info you may have missed at the start of semester. In our library sites;</span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #414042; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Even more staff than usual will be available to answer your questions</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #414042; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: white;">There will be a pop-up advice service in the Diamond on Level 1</span></span></span></li>
</ul>
<div>
<span style="color: #414042; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">And if you're not in the library ask us on-line</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #414042; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">We’ve launched a new on-line help system called </span><a href="http://libraryhelp.shef.ac.uk/" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Library Connect</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #414042; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">We're on twitter; <a href="https://twitter.com/UniSheffieldLib">@</a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="https://twitter.com/UniSheffieldLib">UniSheffieldLib</a> Use the hashtag #libraryhelpwk</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #414042; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;">Call: 0114 222 7200</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #414042; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;">SMS: +44 (0)1952 783022</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #414042; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;">Email: library@sheffield.ac.uk</span></span></li>
</ul>
<div>
<span style="color: #414042; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #414042; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-79557522886062505172015-11-25T09:00:00.000-08:002015-11-25T09:00:01.934-08:00Doctoral Open Days at the British Library<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">The British Library is hosting a series of open days that are aimed at first year PhD students. Each one will introduce you to the library and its services by focusing on one aspect of the collections.Courses available are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><b>Asian & African Collections</b></span> – 18 January 2016 </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><b>News & Media</b> </span>– 25 January 2016 </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><b>Pre 1600 Collections</b></span> – 01 February 2016 </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><b><span style="color: #4c1130;">Music </span></b>– 05 February 2016 </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><b><span style="color: #4c1130;">Social Sciences</span></b> – 12 February 2016 </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><b><span style="color: #4c1130;">17th & 18th Century Collections</span></b> – 19 February 2016 </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><b><span style="color: #4c1130;">19th Century Collections </span></b>– 22 February 2016 </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><b>20th & 21st Century Collections</b></span> – 26 February 2016 - </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>Further information</b></span></div>
<ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">For the full list of open days and to book your place on one, please see this <a href="http://www.bl.uk/events/doctoral-open-days" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">web page</span></a></span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"></span></div>
</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Booking is essential</span></div>
</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Each open day costs £5.00</span></div>
</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Lunch and refreshments are provided</span></div>
</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">To make the most of your day, you may wish to register for a free <a href="http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/inrrooms/stp/register/stpregister.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Reader Pass</span></a> before the event</span></span></li>
</ul>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-90808896594448086062015-11-23T09:00:00.001-08:002015-11-23T09:00:04.623-08:00Critical thinking video and tutorial<div style="color: #414042; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
Thinking critically about your sources - analysing, evaluating and synthesising information - is an essential part of your studies at University-level. Your work will benefit from using the best evidence and information available, and showing you have researched your question and have reliable evidence to back your arguments.</div>
<dl class="tutorial-links" style="color: #414042; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px; list-style: none; padding-right: 60px; padding-top: 20px;">
<dt class="movie_pnk"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-1VdPI_mqQ" style="background-image: url(https://librarydevelopment.group.shef.ac.uk/Assets/tutorial_icons/movie/moviebtn50_pink.png); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #39363d; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 1.1em; font-weight: 600; list-style-type: none; margin: 10px 0px 0px 100px; min-height: 50px; padding-left: 60px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="What is Critical Thinking? (YouTube video, opens in a new window">What is critical thinking, and why is it important?</a></dt>
<dd style="margin: -25px 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 25px; padding-left: 160px;">Watch below, or click on the link above to see it via YouTube.</dd><dd style="margin: -25px 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 25px; padding-left: 160px;"><br /></dd><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q-1VdPI_mqQ/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q-1VdPI_mqQ?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<dd style="margin: -25px 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 25px; padding-left: 160px;"><br /></dd>
<dt class="tutorial_pnk"><a href="https://librarydevelopment.group.shef.ac.uk/shef-only/info_skills/critical_thinking.html" style="background-image: url(https://librarydevelopment.group.shef.ac.uk/Assets/tutorial_icons/tutorial/tutorialbtn50_pink.png); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #39363d; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 1.1em; font-weight: 600; list-style-type: none; margin: 10px 0px 0px 100px; min-height: 50px; padding-left: 60px; text-decoration: none;">Evaluating information and critical thinking</a></dt>
<dd style="margin: -25px 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 25px; padding-left: 160px;">Learn how to think critically about your information sources, and evaluate information that you find to ensure that it is reliable, accurate, of good quality, and relevant to your assignment.</dd></dl>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-55106921335656989752015-11-19T06:55:00.000-08:002015-11-19T07:34:29.703-08:00Millions more items now available at Boston SpaFurther to our Boston Spa minibus post from last week, the British Library has recently announced a huge increase in the number of items available for visitors to Boston Spa. In fact 85% of the collection items requested in the London Reading Rooms are now also available to Readers in Yorkshire.<br />
<br />
More details can be found in <a href="http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/living-knowledge/2015/10/millions-more-legal-deposit-items-now-available-at-boston-spa.html">this blog post </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-45652053189255585012015-11-13T04:41:00.002-08:002015-11-13T04:41:54.340-08:00Join Up Your Skills<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/skills" style="color: #9a8abf;"><img border="0" height="166" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9tjveiKNc-0/VkW250B46fI/AAAAAAAABM8/F4STvr8o1gc/s400/JUYSbanner.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414042; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414042; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A new venture run jointly by <b>301 Student Skills & Development Centre, the Careers Service, University of Sheffield Enterprise</b> and the <b>University Library</b> launched this month. We can work with you to strengthen a variety of vital skills which boost your academic credentials and enhance your personal and professional development. Discover how to get more from your time at University: <b><a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/skills" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Join Up Your Skills</a></b></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-45513871701770192022015-11-13T01:50:00.001-08:002015-11-13T01:50:59.661-08:00Reading lists<br />
<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwqnlXan1ctXWXBLTBa8CfaRF335diL2lU4nED6qBnNOaP44sNlrMErfjNt4eZ_sf2bmq0TReY8TVxirVwbIdvrcvPlFQKEz-XYOMxtOrnmhtG7pz4MEN6owQXe0nWOjW1CgtEVADeZIk/s1600/myResource+Lists.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwqnlXan1ctXWXBLTBa8CfaRF335diL2lU4nED6qBnNOaP44sNlrMErfjNt4eZ_sf2bmq0TReY8TVxirVwbIdvrcvPlFQKEz-XYOMxtOrnmhtG7pz4MEN6owQXe0nWOjW1CgtEVADeZIk/s400/myResource+Lists.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Library provides an online reading list service, </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://myresourcelists.shef.ac.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">myResource Lists</span></a></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, with links to electronic resources such as journal articles, ebooks and websites in addition to items physically held in the library. You can search for your reading lists by module code, lecturer or department<b>.</b> For more information, please see our short introductory video on the </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://myresourcelists.shef.ac.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">myResource Lists</span></a></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> homepage.</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You can access myResource Lists (on and off campus) in the following ways:</span></b><b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" />
<ul style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0cm 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px 2.5em;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">via the link in your MOLE course menu<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">via the <i>My services</i> menu in MUSE<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">From the Library </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">web pages</span></a></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, under the <i>A to Z</i> link<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">From the<a href="http://find.shef.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=SFD_VU2&reset_config=true" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">StarPlus</span></a> homepage</span></li>
</ul>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
<br /></div>
<ul style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0cm 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px 2.5em;" type="disc"></ul>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><strong>What if I have any problems, or can’t find a myResource list for my course?</strong></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Email:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> <a href="mailto:readlist@sheffield.ac.uk" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">readlist@sheffield.ac.uk</span></a></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/services/suppacadst" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Help for Academic Staff</span></a></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-75896367318762708232015-11-12T07:40:00.002-08:002015-11-12T07:40:48.096-08:00British Library Boston Spa Minibus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E_5Jgxu-fnI/VkSyxvc78WI/AAAAAAAABMs/QaHUeZil5qY/s1600/Boston_Spa.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="142" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E_5Jgxu-fnI/VkSyxvc78WI/AAAAAAAABMs/QaHUeZil5qY/s200/Boston_Spa.png" width="200" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The Library runs a regular free minibus service to the
British Library Document Supply Centre at Boston Spa to give staff and students
of the University the opportunity to use the extensive collections housed
there. Visits are scheduled for the first <b>Tuesday</b>
of every month and the next trip is on the 6<sup>th</sup> of December. <o:p></o:p></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
The British Library requires pre-registration to use their
libraries and material must be ordered in advance. More details can be found on
the<a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/services/illbus"> library’s web page</a><o:p></o:p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-4689278194864425742015-10-16T05:15:00.000-07:002015-10-16T05:25:29.331-07:00Trial access to Christian-Muslim Relations Online II, 1500-1900The Library currently has a trial for <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/trialcmr">Christian-Muslim Relations Online II, 1500-1900</a>. This database comprises thousands of comprehensive entries on individual works and their authors, together with introductory essays to the periods and areas covered, making it the fullest available source in this field.<br />
<br />
Trial access is available directly from our <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/trialcmr">Christian-Muslim Relations Online II, 1500-1900</a> page. Access is available to University of Sheffield staff and students on campus only and the trial ends on 10 November 2015.<br />
<br />
We would be very glad of any feedback you may have on the resource. Please let us know <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/trialfeedback">via this form.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-42834297631576778172015-10-09T06:50:00.000-07:002015-10-09T06:50:05.997-07:00Should we trust Wikipedia? <h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066b3; font-family: 'TUOS Stephenson', Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.38462rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.11111; margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></h4>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bfxLWOK8Wq8/VhfFzemNuvI/AAAAAAAABMM/cYy8ji9Az1c/s1600/BOOKWEEK-WEBBANNER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="100" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bfxLWOK8Wq8/VhfFzemNuvI/AAAAAAAABMM/cYy8ji9Az1c/s400/BOOKWEEK-WEBBANNER.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066b3; font-family: 'TUOS Stephenson', Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.38462rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.11111; margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px;">
<br /></h4>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #414042; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.875rem; padding: 0px;">
As part of Academic Book Week, The Diamond will host a panel debate on Wikipedia. </div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #414042; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.875rem; padding: 0px;">
As ubiquitous as Google, Wikipedia can be the first port of call for research outside academia as well as for undergraduates studying at University. This debate brings together librarians and scholars from a range of backgrounds to discuss the validity of this vast, easy to access swathe of information, and to address questions of academic authority and integrity in a world of digital self-publishing.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #414042; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.875rem; padding: 0px;">
Chaired by Professor Nicola Dibben (Music), the panel includes former British Library Wikimedian-in-Residence Andrew Gray, University Librarian Anne Horn, Digital Humanities experts Bob Shoemaker (History) and Michael Pidd (HRI Digital) and PhD student Hannah Robbins (Music).</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #414042; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.875rem; padding: 0px;">
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Date:</strong> Wednesday 11th November 2015<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Time and location:</strong> 5-7pm. The Diamond, University of Sheffield<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Booking:</strong> <a href="https://wikipediadebate.eventbrite.co.uk/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066b3;">Please reserve your place</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112500485583593788.post-5650649274651800322015-10-09T06:30:00.000-07:002015-10-09T06:30:34.825-07:00Information Skills Workshops in the Diamond<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v-6IKvuNKPs/VhfBCUNA8xI/AAAAAAAABMA/mkQBXF0oTNc/s1600/skills%2Bworkshops.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v-6IKvuNKPs/VhfBCUNA8xI/AAAAAAAABMA/mkQBXF0oTNc/s400/skills%2Bworkshops.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
The Library is offering several exciting Information Skills Workshops in our new learning environment, The Diamond. Available for October and November are;<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Getting started with finding information</li>
<li>Finding information for your assignment</li>
<li>Searching for Researching</li>
<li>Evaluating information</li>
<li>Plagiarism & Referencing</li>
</ul>
<br />
<div>
More details and a bookable calender is available on our website here</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/infoskillsworkshops">https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/infoskillsworkshops</a></div>
<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066b3; font-family: 'TUOS Stephenson', Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.84615rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px;">
<br /></h2>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0