Christmas vacation

Vacation hours
Friday 9th December - Friday 6th January (inclusive)
Monday-Friday 9am - 5pm
Termtime hours resume on Saturday 7th January

Christmas/New Year closure
The Library and Reading Room will close at 3pm on Wednesday 21st December and reopen at 9am on Tuesday 3rd January.

Borrowing
Books borrowed/renewed during week beginning 5th December will be due back during week beginning 9th January

RefWorks for Sciences and Social Sciences

RefWorks is an online tool which allows you to manage your references, insert them into your work, automatically generate bibliographies and easily switch between citation styles. This introduction is open to all but the section on importing references will focus on Science/Social Science examples.
Presenters: Kate Williams and Nia Roberts
Friday 2 December 9.15 - 12.15pm at Oxford University Computing Services, Banbury Road Book Now

This session is part of the WISER series of training events run by Bodleian Libraries. To find out more about the WISER programme - Why not follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/oxwiser or visit the BodWiser blog at http://bodwiser.wordpress.com You can also check the timetable on the WISER web site at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/wiser or join our mailling list by sending an empty email to wiser-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk

For research students

Are you a D.Phil student? - this could be for you

WISER: Your thesis, copyright and ORA (Monday 21 November 9.30 - 10.30am and repeated Friday 25 November 12.30 - 13.30pm) - Oxford DPhil students are required to deposit a copy of their thesis in ORA (Oxford University Research Archive). This session will focus on copyright and other issues that DPhil students need to take into account when preparing and writing their thesis so that they do not encounter problems when they deposit. DPhils are encouraged to attend this session early so that they can make sensible decisions regarding rights from the start of their research. > book your place.

This session is part of the WISER series of training events run by Bodleian Libraries. To find out more about the WISER programme - Why not follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/oxwiser or visit the BodWiser blog at http://bodwiser.wordpress.com You can also check the timetable on the WISER web site at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/wiser or join our mailling list by sending an empty email to wiser-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk

ARTstor and Bridgemen

ARTstor and Bridgeman: Using images in teaching and learning (Tuesday 8 November 2.00-4.00, at Oxford University Computing Services, Banbury Road )

The session examines two major digital image collections subscribed to by the University - ARTstor and Bridgeman Education - geared to research and teaching in the humanities, history of science and medicine, and social sciences. Viewing, presenting and managing images are also covered and there will be plenty of time for hands-on practice. Presenters: Clare Hills-Nova and Vicky Brown .
Please book your place online

This course form part of the series of WISER training sessions run by Bodleian Libraries. To keep up to date with the WISER programme - Why not follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/oxwiser or visit the BodWiser blog at http://bodwiser.wordpress.com You can also check the timetable on the WISER web site at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/wiser

Library Closed Week

The Rewley House Continuing Education Library will be closed to readers from Saturday 27th August to Sunday 4th September inclusive. Library staff will be monitoring phone and email, and any urgent requests will be dealt with.

The Reading Room will remain open as usual. If you wish to return books, these can be left in the book return box in the Reading Room.

New Library system - live!

Our new library system will be available to readers from 9am on Friday 22nd July.

SOLO http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now the library catalogue for printed and electronic materials. There's a link to a SOLO guide from the main SOLO screen and we have some brief printed guides in the Library. Library staff will of course be pleased to help you either in person or by phone or email.

If you have a Single Sign On, you will need to use this instead of your barcode number to renew books, place holds for items on loan or to request items from closed stacks. To access your record, Sign in at the top of the SOLO screen and select My Account. If you do not have a Single Sign On, use your barcode and associated password and sign in as a non Oxford member.

Library staff are now able to renew your books.

New library system

Unfortunately the introduction of the new library system has had to be delayed until 9am on Friday 22nd July.

Mechanisms put in place by Bodleian Libraries to assist readers with obtaining items from the stacks during this period will continue through this week.

Rewley House Continuing Education Library readers who have books due back this week will be unable to renew them. Library staff understand the situation, and there will be no problems with items becoming overdue. We regret the inconvenience caused.

For full information, please see the Bodleian Libraries website at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/notices/2011-4-5

System down time, 8th-18th July

OLIS will be shut down on Friday 8th July for the migration to the new system which will go live on Monday 18th July.

You are reminded that you will not be able to place stack requests after 5pm on Thursday 7th July. If you need an item which is not available elsewhere, please ask library staff or see the request form on http://bodleian.ox.ac.uk/.

During the down time:

• All libraries will remain open for their usual hours



• Access to e-resources will not be affected



• SOLO will be available (except for at least part of Sunday 17th July) to check locations and shelfmarks, but you will not be able to see copy availability
  


• Lending services will continue as normal, but you will not be able to reserve or renew books, or access your patron record
  

OLIS Password

If you are planning to visit a library duriing the downtime, you will still need your OLIS barcode and password to access library PCs and connect to the Bodleian Libraries wireless network. please note that library staff will be unable to reset your password during the down time. If you do not know it, please check with library staff this week. Hint: your default password is your date of birth, entered in the format 05jul2011

Gladstone Link open

The Gladstone Link opened today to readers with Bodleian access. It connects the Old Bodleian and the Radcliffe Camera, access is from either. It provides space for an additional 270,000 items which will be on open access. It also has additional working space, IT facilities and printer/copiers. More information can be found on http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/, the Bodleian Libraries website

Book requests from closed stacks July 2011

Bodleian Libraries is implementing a new Library System this summer which will bring benefits to both library staff and readers.

The system migration will take place during 8th-18th July. During this time:

• SOLO will remain available for checking the holdings and locations of item, but availability will not be updated and new items will not be added
  


• It will not be possible to access your patron record, or to request books to be fetched from closed stacks to reading rooms. If you need to consult items from the stacks, please order them during the first week in July, the earlier the better.
  


• It will be possible to request some Special Collections material manually, please see the Bodleian Libraries website for more information



• Access to e-resources will not be affected.

Loan services will continue as normal, although you will not be able to check your record. No items will be due back during the period 8th-18th July, so you will not need to renew during this period.

Library staff will do their best to ensure that services run as smoothly as possible during the transition period. Further information will be posted on the Bodleian Libraries website and on the SOLO home page

Finding books with multiple versions on SOLO - new and improved!

From today, 26th April, improvements have been made to how books with multiple editions display on SOLO, which should make it easier to see what is available. This includes instances of multiple print editions, or instances where there are print and online editions.

Whereas before there used to be an easily-overlook-able link saying '1 of x versions of this work' on the right-hand side, you will now see a line of text saying 'multiple versions found - to view list click versions on the right'. This should direct you to the link that will bring up a list of all the different editions available in Oxford, automatically sorted in date order with the newest edition at the top. If there is an e-version, this will be shown on the intitial results page, and will be at the top of the list when you click the link.

There is no change to how books with only one edition display.

Earn £20 of Amazon vouchers!

Would you be interested in helping to improve library systems and earning a £20 Amazon voucher in the process?

We are currently looking for undergraduates, postgraduates, academics, research staff and other Oxford Libraries' readers to take part in usability testing of library interfaces during 8th and 9th weeks (7-18 March) . The work will involve carrying out a small number of tasks on the web and will take just under 1 hour.

If you are interested in taking part, please email usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk giving the following information:

1. Your name
2. Your contact telephone number
3. Please specify which of the following categories you fit into:
a. Current Oxford undergraduate
b. Current Oxford postgraduate (taught course)
c. Current Oxford postgraduate (research)
d. Current Oxford academic
e. Current Oxford research staff / post doc
f. Bodleian/Oxford Libraries reader (other than the above)

Oxoniensia

Good news for Local Historians!

The journal 'Oxoniensia' is now available online and access is free except for the most recent 5 years. You can find it at http://oxoniensia.org/ where you can browse or search past issues and also view the contents pages of the most recent 5 years.

You will find Oxoniensia listed on Oxford University e-Journals. It does not yet appear on SOLO but should do so very soon.

Book sale

There will be a book sale in the Library starting on Monday 24th January. Items are either withdrawn library stock or donations not required for the Library.

Standard price for ex-library/second hand books is £1 hardback and 50p paperback. There will also be some 'as new' items individually priced. Proceeds will go towards buying new books for the Library.

This will be an ongoing sale over the next few weeks with new items added regularly.

Beat the winter blues and treat yourself to a bargain book or two!

Inter-Library Loan price increase

The cost of Document Supply (ILL) in all the Bodleian Libraries has increased. Charges were last revised 2 years ago so the increase is necessary to cover the costs of the annual British Library price rise and also the 2.5% increase in VAT which came into effect in January.

The cost of a standard loan, photocopy or electronic document request has risen from £4 to £4.50. This cost is heavily subsidised by the Bodleian Libraries.

A full list of services and prices can be found on the Bodleian Libraries website.

Centre for Oxfordshire Studies

Information for Local Historians:

The Centre for Oxfordshire Studies in the Oxford Central Library in the Westgate Centre, will be closed to the public (together with the Library) from Monday 14th February 2011.

The Central Library will reopen on Monday 7th March 2011 and will include electronic and some printed resources for local and family history. Other resources from Oxfordshire Studies will move to the new Oxfordshire History Centre in Cowley which will combine Oxfordshire Studies, the Oxfordshire Record Office and Oxfordshire Health Archives. The new centre is expected to oepn in May 2011

For more details, and to keep up to date with the changes, please see the Oxfordshire Studies website http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshirestudies

Term time hours resume this weekend

A reminder that the Rewley House Continuing Education Library will be open as usual this weekend:

Saturday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Sunday 1.30pm - 4.30pm