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