No.1
November 2004
Online Library Survey 2004 Prizewinners
Left to Right: Paul Reynolds, librarian in
charge of the Library Survey with winners Robyne Conway, Michael Aguer,
and Jessica Bannister, and the University Librarian, Linda Luther who
awarded the prizes.
Library news
Learning Hubs
The Learning Hubs, which have been in the planning stages for the past year, will be created in the Library over the long vacation. Building will commence in mid-November so the facilities will be available for first semester 2005.
Learning Hub: level 2 Morris Miller Library (enlarge)
Learning Hub: level 3 Morris Miller Library (enlarge)
The Learning Hubs will be located on Level 2 and Level 3 in the Morris Miller Library, and on the entrance level at the Launceston campus. In Hobart there will be reduced access to computers and study spaces during the building period.
Learning Hub: Launceston Library (enlarge)
There will be more significant disruption in Launceston as the whole entrance level will need to be vacated. Entrance to the Library will be via the stairs in the gallery outside the FEU offices. Library staff will need to relocate to the Library training room and eLearning Lab, so these facilities will not be available until the building program is complete in February.
The loss of training facilities in Launceston will have implications for summer schools, but there are other computer laboratories which hopefully can be used at this time. We will be alerting students to alternative computer facilities while the building work is in progress.
Learning Hub Graphics: Morris Miller Library (enlarge)
The plans for the Learning Hubs will be on display in the Morris Miller and Launceston campus libraries from early November. Please come and have a look at these so you can see the facilities that will be available in the new year.
Learning Hub Graphics: Launceston Library
(enlarge above)
(enlarge below)
The Learning Hubs will provide enhanced infrastructure for student learning, in line with the EDGE agenda. They will provide a new vibrant environment at the entrance to the Library.
Please contact Lana Wall in Launceston or Richard Dearden in Hobart if you would like any more information on this project or implications for Library service during the building project.
Linda Luther , University Librarian
Online Library Survey
The library would like to thank all of those who participated in our online survey. This has given us valuable information regarding our performance, services and facilities, and will be used to benchmark against other University Libraries and to aid us in our strategic planning process.
Over 1,700 people responded and the results of the survey will be made
available as soon as they are correlated. The three lucky participants
who won the $100 cash prizes are Robyne Conway, Michael Aguer, and Jessica
Bannister.
See the picture at the top of the page.
"New Titles" Library Web Page
As reported in the last Bulletin, there is now a new Web page listing
recent additions to the Library's collection. The list for the month
of October is now published at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/new_titles/
newtitles.html
Previous months' New Titles pages are archived and are available from the top of this page. The 'New Titles' page is linked from the Library's home page in the "Quick Links" area on the left hand side of the page.
We regret the the display of new books in the Morris Miller Library will be restricted while the Learning Hub is being constructed, so this list of new titles will also help to keep you informed about new arrivals.
Research Support
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The Library has purchased a print copy of the new edition of the Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography. This has entitled us to 12 months
free access to the online edition of the ODNB. Continuing access will
be considered in the light of use and funding in mid 2005. The online
database is linked for our Databases pages at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/
dbases3.html
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography tells the stories of over 50,000 people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to those who died in the year 2000. It also includes over 10,000 portraits.
The online edition also offers access to the complete text of the first 33-volume Dictionary of National Biography. You can move from the new article to the original article by clicking the DNB Archive button in the side bar.
Informit Databases
As a result of the trial of the Informit online databases, we are delighted to announce that we now have a subscription commencing in November. These databases include the ones listed below which have substantial full-text content:
- A+ Education (134715
records)
Full text from 2000. Index from 1978. - AGIS Plus Text (109623 records)
Full text from 1999. Index from 1975. - APA-FT - Australian Public Affairs (323227 records)
Full text from 1995. Index from 1978. - Family Plus - Family & Society Plus (55849
records)
Full text from 2000. Index from 1980. - Meditext (Full text version of the Australian Medical Index)
They will be accessed from our Databases page at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/
index.html
CSA New Interface
CSA have produced a new streamlined and easier to use interface for searching their collection of databases. It will be available from the end of November. The redesign includes:
- Cleaner look, search results load faster
- Results categorized by tabs - peer reviewed, journals, books
- Descriptors moved to the top of the record display and cross searchable
- Short format display includes indexing terms and first few lines of abstract
- No forced AND between first two rows in advanced search. Also you can add rows for searching on more than 3 concepts
- Searchable help
- 3 tutorials - one each for quick, advanced and command searching
Liaison Librarians will be offering demonstrations of the new interface.
The ProQuest database will also be offering new services from
November this year including publication alerts, which will inform you
via email that the latest issues of your favourite journals are available.
You will also be able to set up searching alerts, which will send emails
containing information about new articles that match your saved searches.
It will also offer greater cross database searching, and will be definitely
worth checking out.
From November 1st the Ingenta and Ingenta Select suites of electronic
journals have combined to form IngentaConnect, which has a new easier
to use interface. Ingenta currently indexes over 28,000 titles, making
it one of the largest databases available to the research community.
One of the advantages of the new interface is that it is immediately
obvious which of these titles is available to us in full-text.
Table of contents and search alerts are also available, as well as a more straightforward export of records to EndNote.
New Taylor and Francis Journals for 2005
From the start of November the Library will provide access
to the over 1000 titles published by Taylor and Francis. Taylor
and Francis publish quality scholarly journals across a wide range of
subject areas and an extremely attractive CAUL deal will give us access
to many electronic journals relevant to a large number of our teaching
and research areas.
ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR): what's your
opinion?
Demonstrations to launch JCR were held in Launceston, Morris Miller
and Clinical Libraries on Monday 18 October. Researchers representing
most faculties and Research Office staff attended across the three campuses.
The demonstrations were the perfect opportunity for some critical appraisal of JCR and its benefits to researchers and research higher degree students. In some disciplines JCR has clear benefits in assisting researchers decide what journals to send their publication. By seeing how various journals are ranked by impact factor could help researchers in that decision.
However, researchers from some disciplines found some titles omitted that were central to their research area. In the Help pages, users are cautioned not to depend solely on citation data in your journal evaluations. Citation data are not meant to replace informed peer review. Additionally, careful attention should be paid to the many conditions that can influence citation rates such as language, journal history and format, publication schedule, and subject specialty.
What's your opinion?
Richard Dearden, Information Services Coordinator is collecting opinions
of UTAS researchers to forward to IS : Richard.Dearden@utas.edu.au.
Any enquiries that you have about JCR, please contact your Liaison Librarian:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/about/liais.html
Journal Citation Reports is accessed via Web of Knowledge on the Libraries
Databases list:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/
dbases4.html
Teach yourself how to use JCR from the Library's guide:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/assist/apps/
jcr.pdf
Teaching and Learning Support
Information Literacy Policy
The Library's Information Literacy Policy was passed recently
by the University Senate, and is available for reading at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/about/
infolit_policy.html
If you have an interest in information literacy and how it works with
the University's Policy on Generic Attributes of Graduates, or
if you are seeking resources and ways to embed information literacy into
teaching and learning, please check our Web site at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/about/
liaisgeneric.html
Library staff will be presenting at the Teaching Matters poster display. The focus of the Library's poster will be the information Literacy Policy and it will provide examples of embedding information literacy into the curriculum. Library staff will be available to answer questions and help you with your teaching needs.
The Clinical Library will also be displaying a poster illustrating the incorporation of information literacy within the new medical curriculum.
Materials for Summer Schools
When submitting lists of materials to go on Reserve or eReserve for Summer
School units, please use the new online form available on the library's
Web pages at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/forstaff/
reserve_request.html
Staff are asked to submit their online Reserve requests, not hardcopies
of their course outlines, as early as possible before the beginning of
Summer School. For more information please contact your liaison librarian
or see:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/cat/
staffres.html
Library Training
As we’ve now reached the end of Semester it’s time to start thinking about your library and information training needs for 2005.
Liaison Librarians can deliver library information sessions and workshops on subject-specific databases and EndNote to meet the information needs of you and your students. Liaison Librarians are also available to talk to staff about information literacy, Reserve and eReserve procedures and other library issues.
Please contact your Liaison Librarian directly to discuss your
information training needs.
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/about/
liais.html
For details of our workshops for staff and postgraduate researchers
and our other classes please see:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/assist/
tours_workshops.html
News from Sections:
Art and Music Libraries
The Carington Smith (Art) Library is currently providing office space for an ARC funded Solo Survey Exhibition project. This project, lead by Jonathon Holmes, covers solo survey (ie. the body of work over a period of time) exhibitions of Australian artists from 1970 to the present. The project will include a database of the exhibitions and will be used as the basis for six retrospective exhibitions. The other team members of the project are Brigita Ozolins and Philip Hutch.
We have also just finished hosting a Masters of Librarianship student, Susan Robson, on her 3 week work experience placement. Susan was the third placement in two years that has been hosted by the Art Library and we hope the experience was as enjoyable for them as it was for the Art Library staff.
As has been the practice in the past the Music Library will close over January. The Library will close at 5.00pm on Friday 24th Dec 2004 and reopen at 9.00 am on Monday 31st Jan 2005.
We have also recently purchased new dvd players for the Art and Music Libraries so that our growing collection of dvd's are now viewable from within the libraries.
Phone: 03 6226 4376
E-mail: Art.Reference@utas.edu.au
Circulation
December will be an end of an era, as Jayne Clarke will retire after 30 years of devoted service to the University of Tasmania Libraries. We will all miss her very much as she has always been a devoted friend, and work colleague as well as a big hit with the students and campus staff alike. Thank you Jayne and good luck for the future.
Phone: 03 6226 2227
Clinical Library
Courtesy of the Faculty of Health Science, the Library will be able to provide online access in 2005 to the contents of the BMJ CAUL offer. This includes BMJ online, Clinical Evidence and the 22 specialist BMJ Collection e-journal titles.
A proposal for a poster illustrating the incorporation of information literacy within the new medical curriculum has been accepted for Teaching Matters.
In response to a concern by students using personal laptops in the Clinical Library, 'hasp & staple' security fixtures have been attached to two carrels, on a trial basis. Students with cable locking systems can attach their laptops. Whilst not foolproof, students feel it gives them a bit more security if leaving the laptop for a few minutes to locate an item in the stacks.
A small group of senior academic and research staff attended a demonstration of ISI's JCR and Web of Knowledge Alerting features.
A special project to prepare a backlog of 350 Lade Library nursing title volumes for binding is in progress with a target completion date of early December.
A new procedure for ensuring all errata is inserted our journals, involving identifying them at time of receipt of issues has proved successful. More details from Irene.
Phone: 03 6226 4813
E-mail: Clin.Reference@utas.edu.au
Document Delivery
Users often ask how long does it take to receive copies of journal articles and loan items, usually books. We use a good commercial supplier for copy requests. They pride themselves on a quick turnaround time. The vast majority of article requests are filled within eleven (11) days. If sourced locally article copies can arrive within 1-2 days of being requested. Loans do take longer. We mainly use a Kinetica Document Delivery system to request loan items. Allow 2-3 weeks to fill a standard loan request.
Please feel free to follow up on your copy requests if your request has not been filled within eleven days. Contact us earlier than this if you are keen to receive a copy. We can easily check the current status and get back to you on either copy or loan requests.
Hobart Phone: 03 6226 2230
E-mail docdel.hbt@lib.utas.edu.au
Launceston Phone: 03 6324 3571
E-mail: docdel.ltn@lib.utas.edu.au
Building work for the Learning Hub in the Launceston Campus Library is to start on November 15th 2004. This means that the entire ground floor has to be cleared in the week prior to this. The temporary entrance and exit to the library will be on Level 2 at the top of the stairs next to FEU. There is a lift available inside the entrance to the cafeteria on Level 0 and inside the entrance to the Faculty of Education on Level 1, which can be used to get to Level 2 of the library if using stairs is difficult or impossible.
Library staff will be occupying both the training rooms during the renovations, so these will be unavailable for teaching use during this time. The Help Desk staff will be located here together with Circulation and Reference staff. There will be signs directing users to the temporary entrance.
We apologise for any inconvenience which this work may cause, but the end result will be well worth it. We look forward to the Learning Hub being in place for the start of Semester 1 2005, and we are sure it will be a great asset for the whole Launceston Campus community.
Phone: 03 6324 3276
E-mail: Ltn.Reference@utas.edu.au
The Law Library has created a short survey on the Legal Research Course on WebCT. It is hoped that a large number of students will complete this survey enabling us to use the feedback to improve the course.
The staff of the Law Library were delighted when one of the law students won one of the $100 prizes for completing the Rodski Survey on client satisfaction.
We are really pleased to inform everyone that all Reserve photocopiers - articles, chapters and cases have now been digitised and placed on eReserve. Our thanks go to Moira Mahoney for undertaking all this work.
Carolyn Jarvis has now taken over the administration of the Law Journal Exchange Scheme. The Law Library receives 150 law journals and law reviews free, as part of an exchange scheme for the 2 law journal titles published by the Faculty of Law. The aim is to streamline the procedure and to distribute the journals in an efficient and timely manner.
Phone: 03 6226 2063
E-mail: Law.Reference@utas.edu.au
Morris Miller Library
We regret that during the period of construction of the new Learning Hub computer access will be restricted and the eLearning Lab and the Education Rooms will only be available for limited bookings.
The Reference collection and current newspapers will be re-located to Level 1, and the displays of new books and journals will be restricted. Plans for this exciting new development will be on display in the Morris Miller Library. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you, but feel certain the results will make this a very welcome event.
Cherrill Vertigan
Sadly we have to report the after 30 year of service to the Library Cherrill
Vertigan, the Arts, Commerce and Education Librarian will be retiring
at the end of January 2005. Cherrill has provided vast experience
in reference research and her dedication to customer service has inspired
those who have been fortunate enough to work with her. She will
be greatly missed.
Phone: 03 6226 2225
E-mail: MML.Reference@utas.edu.au
Over the summer months the Science Library will be relocating our collections of Atlases, Elephants, Folios and Indexes and Abstracts within the Library. These relocations will provide space for our monograph and serial collections to grow as well as making these larger formats more accessible to staff and students.
We are still in the process of resolving the Compactus problems and hope to have items returned to Unit 6 shortly. Please see Library Staff if you need any assistance with the Compactus.
More details on the relocation of these collections will be advertised within the Science Library closer to the commencement of the moves. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience to staff and students.
Phone: 03 6226 2441
E-mail: Science.Reference@utas.edu.au
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