Tell us what you think about your library services. Complete our survey for the chance of winning an iPad!

We are conducting an electronic survey to help us with our developments and improvements of the Learning Resources Centres. The survey takes about ten minutes to complete and all those completing the survey will be entered into a prize draw for the chance of winning an iPad. The survey is available until 28th November,
To access the survey click on this link or go to

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Win an iPad!

Tell us what you think - Your views are important!
Complete our survey for the chance of winning an iPad!

•Do you like studying in the LRCs?
•Can you always find the thing s you want when you go into the LRCs?
•Are the LRC staff able to help you find the things that you want?

For three weeks, from November 8th, Library and Student Support (L&SS) will be running a large-scale survey called LibQual to gather your opinions on the quality of our library services and facilities available in the Learning Resource Centres (LRCs). Everyone who completes a questionnaire will be automatically entered into a prize draw for a chance of winning an iPad.
To access the survey click HERE

Or to go to the L&SS LibQUAL Web pages:
www.ljmu.ac.uk/lea/libqual
Thank you for your participation!

WIN an iPad!

Tell us what you think - Your views are important!

Complete our survey for the chance of winning an iPad!

• Do you like studying in the LRCs?

• Can you always find the thing s you want when you go into the LRCs?

• Are the LRC staff able to help you find the things that you want?


For three weeks, from November 8th, Library and Student Support (L&SS) will be running a large-scale survey called LibQual to gather your opinions on the quality of our library services and facilities available in the Learning Resource Centres (LRCs). Everyone who completes a questionnaire will be automatically entered into a prize draw for a chance of winning an iPad.
The survey will be available on the L&SS Web pages from November 8th. http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/lea/libqual

One language, many voices - not the name of this years worst X-factor group.....

The British Library is preparing to launch an exhibition called 'Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices'. Linguists within the British Library say pronunciation is a matter of fashion and are asking the public to help it track how pronunciation is shifting in Britain, as our language evolves.

Volunteers are being asked to record a chapter from the Mr Men book Mr Tickle, to see how certain words and accents have changed over time. The British Library wants as many people as possible to record the opening paragraphs of children's book Mr Tickle to track differences in vowel sounds. It says youngsters are now more likely to say "haitch" than "aitch" when pronouncing the letter H.

When saying the word "mischievous", they prefer to pronounce it "mischeevy-us" rather than "mischivus", curators add. Youg people are also more likely to have different way of saying words such as garage, schedule, migraine and harass.

'The concise Oxford dictionary of current English.' can be found in Avril and Aldham LRCs class number 423 con

Anxious about an assignment? Exasperated by an essay?

Having problems finding information, evaluating it or referencing it? Help is at hand via the Academic Support Desk in your LRC or the Study Support Team - visit our webpage: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/needhelp/69038.htm for further info. We’re here to help!

Electronic Library - Anytime, Anyplace, anywhere

Too busy to come into the LRC to do research? – get full text access straight to your desktop.

Whether home or away take the Electronic Library with you.

Book an appointment with a Research & Learner Support Officer to help you make the most of the Electronic Library.

Visit http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/lea/elibrary

Ask at the Academic Support Desk for more details

Twitter profile name updated

We have updated our profile name on Twitter to correspond with our other social networking profiles. Our profile name has changed from LJMU_Library to ljmulibrary, our facebook and youtube accounts remain unchanged.

Faster than the speed of Sound

14 October 1947 U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. Because of the secrecy of the project, Bell and Yeager's achievement was not announced until June 1948.

Aviation Engineering can be found at 629.13

What time is it? No it's not Chico time, its....Maritime

On 13 October 1884 Greenwich, in London was established as the Universal Time meridian of longitude - from which all World time zones are based. There are an infinite number of possible meridians, and any one of these could have been chosen. However, the Greenwich Meridian was pre-eminent because it had already been adopted by both the UK and USA and was therefore being used by 72% of the world's shipping.

Find books on longitude in Mathematical Geography 526.

Telecommunications

Happy 45th Birthday to the BT telecoms tower. 45 years old and still standing tall, 189m tall to be precise! Telecommunications books can be found in the 621. class.

Why not call in at Avril Robarts and see the BT tower on the cover of - 621.3821 FLO - Telecommunication Networks - Flood, J. E

National Poetry Day - the prose and cons

It's National Poetry Day today, why not take out a book from our poetry section, sit in the gardens and relax with some rhyming couplets?

Books on poetry are in the 821. class, so why not ponder for a moment and think.....shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Our personal favourite (seeing as the theme for this year's poetry day is 'Home') is 821.914 CUR 'Three songs of Home' by Tony Curtis

Bookable 'SMART' Seminar rooms in all LRCs

Did you know that all of our Learning Resource Centres have Seminar rooms that can be booked, for your use.
There are eight seminar rooms across the three sites with the largest holding groups of upto 60. There are various facilities in the rooms, including interactive SMART boards, large PC connected LCD screens and ceiling mounted projectors.

Book yourself in to rehearse presentations, for brainstorming sessions and group discussions.

http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/lea/94522.htm

have a look at what facilities are available at each site, book yourself in at the Hub and make use of the flexible working spaces.

Want a book we don't have?

Why not try Interlibrary loans - you can now request these via the Library Catalogue. Log into your Library Account and select "Request Interlibrary loan" - you can get access to full books, chapters from books and journal articles this way.

If you need any help with this ask at the Hub in the LRCs

Summer books due back on 17th Sept

Welcome back, we hope you had a nice summer? Now its time to get back into the swing of things, we thought we should remind you not to forget about your library books. Many of you will have had books out over the summer, these will all be due back on September 17th.

We don't want you to get any late fines so we thought it might be good to check if this includes your own books so that you can either return or renew them in time. If you're returning them, pop in and show off your summer tan, make us all jealous!

We'll try to send courtesy notices the day before your books are due so you don't forget.

Do you know your Zone?

Our LRCs are broken down into different Zones to help you study. If noise doesn’t bother you and you want to have a snack and a drink while you work, choose the Social Zone. If you want a quieter environment choose the Quiet Zone. If you prefer silence choose the Silent Zone.

What time was my first lecture???

Make sure you don't miss your lectures, have a look at our online timetable generator. Click HERE to find out when your lectures are and where they are!

L&SS Commitment to Staff and Students

We are ready for another busy year & want to make sure we give you the best service we can. We've been working hard over the last year to establish ourselves as a new service area of the University. As part of this development we have been looking at the University values and behaviours and how we can apply these effectively to our own service area.

For more details have a look at L&SS Values.

IT Disruption 3/9/10 to 5/9/10 - Read a book instead

There will be some disruption to the IT facilities across the university 3/9/10 - 5/9/10 The books will still work though :) Read the full story HERE

IM Marsh - LRC Reopen

The refurbishment at IM Marsh Campus is now complete on the Learning Resource Centre. It re-opens today with a new Student Zone. Why not pop down and have a look around?

Oxford Dictionary of English adds new words

Some of the new words added to the ODE this week include: 'microblogging' - the posting of very short entries on a blog (just like this one). 'social media' - websites and applications used for social networking. 'netbook' - small light laptop. Did you know that each of the Learning resource centres has loan Laptops available! Simply take your LJMU student card to one of the LRC Hubs and our staff will be willing to help.

Moving with the times

With different refurbishment projects underway around the LRCs in preparation for the start of the new academic year, Aldham Robarts LRC and Avril Robarts LRC have had 250 new PCs delivered between them, to replace some of our older student PCs.

CIS service disruption - Sunday 29/08/10 & Sunday 5/9/10

Due to electrical work being carried out by Property Services, there will be loss of service in various building as detailed below.

Sunday 29/8/10 08:00 - 12:00
Shutdown at Aldham Robarts and John Foster buildings will affect the following the whole of the Mount Pleasant Campus.

Sunday 5/9/10 08:00 - 12:00
Shutdown at I.M.Marsh that will affect the whole of the I.M.Marsh Campus


CIS apologise for any disruption that this may cause

Blackboard - Working

Blackboard is now working. CIS apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Blackboard - currently unavailable

Blackboard is currently unavailable, CIS are investigating and will have the service back up and running as soon as possible.

Follow-me Printing System - WORKING

The follow-me printing system is now back up and running. CIS apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Follow-me Printing System

The follow-me printing system is currently experiencing some technical problems. This should be rectified within the next ten to fifteen minutes.

Aleph Library Catalogue - now working

The Aleph Library catalogue is now up and running again. We apologise for any inconvenience you have experienced while the system has been down over the last 24 hours

testing the feed to the facebook site and the twitter feed

The push seems to have made it through to the twitter feed, with a few amendments it should now make it to the facebook page.

L&SS Customer Services

The start of the L&SS Customer services blog