Oxford Scholarship Online - Philosophy Collection

Hello,

Did you know that for the 2010-2011 Academic Year I have subscribed to the Oxford Scholarship Online PHILOSOPHY collection of Ebooks? It includes over 700 titles published by Oxford University Press in the following collections:

Aesthetics, Ancient Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, General, History of Philosophy, Logic/Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics/Epistemology, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy

Please have a look - as well as going straight to the Philosophy collection as a database you should find individual titles as ebooks on Star. Here is the link:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/oxfscholar.html

Click the CONNECT button and login to MUSE.

If you find it useful (or indeed if you don't) please send in your feedback. You can email me c.scott@sheffield.ac.uk (Faculty Librarian) with  your views or Yonatan Shemmer y.shemmer@sheffield.ac.uk (Departmental Library Coordinator). We would be pleased to know what you think so we can decide whether or not to continue with this service next year.

We look forward to hearing from you, Clare

Feedback from Lending Services survey

Many thanks to everyone who took part in the Lending Services survey. We had a fantastic 1140 responses.

You can have a look at the results by following the link to the Library webpages:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/services/survey2010.html

Western Bank Library - Virtual Tour

Don't forget about Western Bank Library if you are a student in the Faculty of Arts. If is full of research material in print that is not available online. It has recently been refurbished and includes some nice well lit study spaces, as well as group spaces, on Level 4. Western Bank Library houses all the print journals, the microfilm and microfiche in the Wolfson centre on Level 4, as well as newspapers, record societies and other material of historical interest. Western Bank Library also houses Special Collections and the National Fairground Archive, where you might find interesting primary sources. If you are new to Sheffield why not take a look at the virtual tour of Western Bank Library

http://www.librarydevelopment.group.shef.ac.uk/wbl_tour/wbl_tour.html

Clare

Welcome to all our new and returning students!

Find out about Library and IT services.  Come to one of the brief presentations on Level 1 in the Information Commons week beginning 20 September, at 11am, 1pm, 2pm or 3pm.  These are followed by optional tours by student ambassadors and demonstrations of equipment.  Just turn up - there's no need to book.  Student ambassadors and staff are also on hand at our other Library sites to help you find your way around.  You can find more information for new students at http://www.shef.ac.uk/infocommons/students/gettingstarted and http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/services/new.html.

Need your inter-library loan material quickly?

University staff and postgraduate researchers can now submit requests for books and documents held outside the University Library electronically. From the Library tab in MUSE, click on the myInterLibrary requests link, complete the web form and press ‘send’. We’ll let you know as soon as your item becomes available.

If you’re an undergraduate or postgraduate on a taught course you can continue to make your request using the paper forms, and you should obtain an authorisation voucher from your department.

This is a three-month trial and feedback would be very welcome. Your comments can be emailed to library@sheffield.ac.uk

More information about the service can be found at http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/services/ill2.html

eBook Reader Pilot

We’re currently evaluating the potential use of ebook readers within the Library and are running a trial service from July to November 2010. An Amazon Kindle is available for you to try at Western Bank Library or a Sony Pocket Edition Reader is available at the Information Commons.

Tell us what you think of our ebook readers and you could win your own Kindle or Sony Reader! For more information about the pilot see the Library website.

Lending Service Survey

Many thanks to everyone who took part in our lending service survey.  We received over 1100 responses in total from the online and paper survey!  We're looking at the feedback now and will get back to you after we've analysed your comments.