This year the Library has provided access to 3,946 new e-books and 661 databases and made them available on Discovery and the library catalogue. All this requires people to make sure the “metadata” is all present and correct.
Due to essential maintenance to the Library catalogue on Tuesday, 30 June, shelf marks, printed book and journal availability information will be unavailable from the catalogue, Discovery Service and reading lists in the early morning. All services are expected to be working normally by 10 …
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Update 12/04/2015 You can now renew your books online, over the phone (T: 023 9284 3228) or via online chat. If you are visiting the Library, you can also renew your books using the self-service kiosks. The library catalogue is also working normally. E-resources …
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Update: 19/03/2015 The catalogue terminals are now working again. We regret there is a temporary problem with our catalogue terminals. IS have been informed and we hope to have them up and working again as soon as possible. The catalogue …
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An essential firewall upgrade taking place this coming Saturday, 17 January means University IT systems will be unavailable between 9-12 am. Systems may be available intermittently and will be running at risk from midday until normal service resumes at 4pm. …
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Update 24/11/14 – The catalogue update passed without incident and is working normally. Thank you for your patience. The Library catalogue will be unavailable from 8pm on Friday, 21 November for planned essential maintenance. If you need to borrow books …
by Anna Delaney The new archive catalogue for the College of Education Collection is now available. You can view the catalogue on the archive page of the library website (link to http://www.port.ac.uk/library/infores/print/universityarchives/) as a PDF. The college, also known as …
Beware of this catchy tune which can get into your head all too easily: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/29/librarians-do-gaga.html
Today’s TOTD is only for library geeks, and I mean real geeks. This website allows you to generate your own library catalogue cards. It’s fairly pointless but here at the library we love it! Give it a try and if you …
You’d think it was only librarians who wanted to catalogue books – but apparantly not. Library Thing has over 300,000 users who have more than 20,000,000 books listed between them! http://www.librarything.com/ Scary! But sometimes useful and often interesting.
