Christmas vacation

Please note that due to rewiring works, the Rewley House Continuing Education Library will be closed for longer than usual over Christmas/New Year. We apologise for the inconvenience these essential works will cause.

Key dates:

• Saturday/Sunday 8th/9th December:   Last weekend opening of term
• Thursday 13th December:   Last evening opening of term
• Monday-Wednesday 17th-19th December: Limited service - lower floor closed to readers, but staff will be able to fetch books.
• Thursday 20th December - Sunday 6th January: Library and reading room CLOSED
• Monday 7th January: Library re-opens, term time hours

For Continuing Education students, books borrowed during the week beginning 10th December will be due back by 11th January. An extra 4 books may be borrowed for the vacation.
We wish you all a very happy festive season

Bodelain Libraries 2012 Reader Survey

By now you should have received an e-mail asking you to assist in assessing the quality of our library services by filling out a Web-based survey.  If you have already completed the survey, thank you!   If you have not yet filled out the survey, please take a few minutes to go to URL below and help us in this important endeavour by taking the survey.  Only you can tell us how well we are serving your library needs.  Please complete the survey no later than the 16^th of November

http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/libqual-survey

When you complete the survey, please respond by giving your assessment of our services based on the Bodleian Libraries library that you use most frequently (you’ll be asked to specify this as part of the survey).  Please use the survey comments box if you have feedback on other Bodleian sites or on the Bodleian Libraries generally.

Please complete the survey even if you rarely visit one of our libraries - the survey also covers feedback on our extensive range of online services such as our electronic journal collections.

If you have any difficulty in accessing or completing the survey, please contact our survey team at libqual.survey@bodleian.ox.ac.uk   More information about the survey and a PDF version for you to print out and submit as well as our survey FAQ can be found at www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/survey 

The information you supply will be stored on servers in the United States. No data in the survey identifies you as a person;  however, the network address of the computer you are may be captured.

Course:finding and using images

ARTstor and Bridgeman: Using images in teaching and learning

Tuesday 20 November, 14:00-16:00 at IT Services, Banbury Road

The course 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. There is no charge for this course

Booking at: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TIMS

For Graduate Research Students

Are you starting out on your D.Phil? Would you like to know more about It and Library services and tools which could help you? This course may be for you!

Research Skills Toolkit

A free hands-on workshop for research students introducing key tools, techniques and resources.   Topics covered in this 2 hour session include:

·         Reference management software

·         Literature searching and advanced search techniques

·         Keeping up to date with emerging research

·         Managing your thesis with Word

·         Analysing data with Excel pivot tables

·         Podcasting with Audacity and Weblearn

·         Free software for image manipulation

·         Measuring research impact

·         Your thesis, copyright and submitting to ORA

During the sessions you will also meet with subject specialists for help and guidance on further training.

These workshops are open to graduate researchers and take place in week 8 of Michaelmas and week 1 of Hilary Term. There are workshops targeted at different subject areas

Read more here and book your place – places are limited, book your place now.

Courses for Postgrads and researchers

The following courses are being run by Bodleian Libraries staff at  IT Services (formerly OUCS) in Banbury Road

WISER: Finding Stuff – Conferences (Tues 23 Oct 3.30 – 4.30) (wk 3) - Conference papers can be tricky to find but are very valuable because they describe cutting-edge research. This session will enable you to find forthcoming conferences in your field and also to locate the published papers of proceedings which have taken place.

Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers and academics.

Presenters: James Shaw and Sue Bird > Book Now

WISER: Your thesis, copyright and ORA (Wed 24 Oct 3.45 – 5.00) (wk 3)

Repeated Mon 29 Oct 12.30 – 13.30 (week 4)

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.

Who is this session for? Research Postgraduates who are required to write a thesis

Presenter: Catherine Goudie > Book Now

WISER: Finding Stuff – Theses and Dissertations (Fri 26 Oct 10.45 – 12.00) (wk 3) – This session will help you to find theses submitted at Oxford and in other institutions in the UK and overseas. 

Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers and academics.

Presenter: Angela Carritt and Craig Finlay > Book Now

Keeping up with Bodleian Libraries training opportunities: Why not follow join our mailing list by sending an empty email to wiser-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/oxwiser or visit the BodWiser blog at http://bodwiser.wordpress.com

Open Access Week

To celebrate International Open Access Week, 22nd - 28th October, various events are being held in Oxford. For more information, see the Radcliffe Science Library website Radcliffe Science Library website

Queen Victoria's journals

Queen Victoria’s journals are now available online at http://www.queenvictoriasjournals.org/  This is a collaborative project created by Bodleian Libraries, the Royal Archives and ProQuest. As well as the digitised journals, the site contains supporting material.

The site is freely available within the UK, and on a trial basis for worldwide users until 30th June.

For more information, follow the news link on the Bodleian Libraries home page http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

New service: Scan and Deliver

Bodleian Libraries have launched a new service, Scan and Deliver, which enables you to request electronic scans of items held in the Book Store at Swindon to be sent to your desktop.

1. You may request up to one chapter from a book, or one article from a journal issue.
2. Items are requested using SOLO (you must be signed in using your Oxford Single Sign On).
3. There is a charge of £4.75 per item, payable at the time of placing the request using your PCAS account.

For full details, see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/scan-and-deliver

For Research Students

Are you a D.Phil student registered with the Department for Continuing Education?

From Friday 4th May you will be able to borrow 10 books from the Rewley House Continuing Education Library instead of 8, and they will be loaned for 4 weeks rather than 2. Renewals will still be possible provided no one has requested them.

We hope that you will find this change helpful for your research

Monday 7th May

The Rewley House Continuing Education Library will be closed on Monday 7th May, the May Bank Holiday.

Most other Bodleian libraries are open as normal

Keep control of your references

Check out the following guides to alternative tools to help you keep track of your research:

'RefWorks for managing references and citations' http://ox.libguides.com/RefWorks

'Zotero citation management' http://ox.libguides.com/Zotero

New resource: Old Maps Online

Old Maps Online http://www.oldmapsonline.org/ is a portal to a number of international map collections. It currently has around 60,000 maps with more collections to be added during 2012, including maps from the Bodleian Library. This resource is freely available - no password needed

Moving bookstack repairs

Repairs and maintenance of the moving bookstacks on the lower floor of the Library will be carried out on Friday 10th February.

There will inevitably be some noise, and disruption of access to books. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, but it is essential that this work is carried out as soon as possible. Also apologies for the short notice - the work was originally scheduled for the following week, but the company had a cancellation and as Fridays tend to be quieter in the Library, we accpeted tha last minute change.

Library access for disabled readers

The Rewley House lift is being refurbished starting at the end of January. The work is expected to last approximately 3 months. During this period it will not be possible to provide access to the lower floor of the Library for readers unable to use the stairs. Library staff will of course be pleased to fetch books for borrowing, or study in the reading room, but browsing the shelves will not be possible.

The Library apologises for any inconvenience caused by this work

Would you like to become WISER?

Bodleian Libraries offer a programme of short, free, workshops covering a range of library tools and resources that are open to all, although pre-booking is required.

For more information see the WISER LibGuide

Term time hours

A reminder that term time hours resume next Saturday, 7th January.

For full details of opening hours, please see the Library website

Inter-Library loan price rise

The January 2012 ILL price increase has now been implemented.
This represents an annual increase since the charges were last revised in January 2012, and are in line with a recommendation that was passed by the Curators to apply a 25p annual increase to our charges for Inter-library loans and document supply.

The ILL charge increases are as follows:

• Loan, photocopy, or delivery of an item by secure electronic delivery for University members from £4.50 to £4.75
  


• Urgent requests for University members from £10.50 to £10.75
  


• Worldwide searches for University members from £12.50 to £12.75.
  

The full revised price list can be found on the Bodleian website at: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/ill/prices

After this price rise, the annual price increase will take place in line with the beginning of the budget year so there will be a further rise of 25p from August 2012.