Library Survey 2012

The Library is participating in an internationally organised survey in order to compare its services, resources and study facilities with other universities in the UK and beyond. Your views are crucial in this process and so we invite you to complete the LibQual online survey.

To access the survey, click on the link below. 
https://www.libqual.org/survey/RWSVJA32HUL53VNY 

The survey will take around 10 minutes to complete. The closing date for submission is 28 February 2012.

Thanks for your help.

Judging a book by its cover: what bindings can tell us about books

Friends of Aberdeen University Library

The Friends’ Annual General Meeting, to be held from 7 to 7:30pm in the Old Senate Room on King‘s Campus, on May 26^th, will be followed by a chance to listen to a talk by expert Jane Pirie, Information Officer and Rare Books Cataloguer from Special Libraries and Archives, about the ancient art of bookbinding. Come along and learn about the materials and techniques used, and see some of the beautifully crafted examples from our collections.

Thursday 26th May 2011

in the Old Senate Room, King’s College

At approximately 7.30 p.m.

(following the Friends AGM, at 7.00 p.m.)

All welcome

Light refreshments will be served after the meeting

 

 Sheona Farquhar, s.c.farquhar@abdn.ac.uk

New digital details on 1800s photo collection

The new station at Inverurie from the George Washington Wilson Photographic Collection

The University’s Special Libraries and Archives has made available online over 35,000 high resolution digital versions of images originally taken during the latter half of the nineteenth century by the Aberdeen photographic firm George Washington Wilson & Co.  Find out more here.

Thanks to digitised images from the George Washington Wilson Collection staff at Special Libraries & Archives have been able to track down some answers to a transatlantic money mystery. Read more here.

Browse this and other collections from Special Libraries & Archives here.

Elaine Shallcross
(e.shallcross@abdn.ac.uk)

A new issue of HeadLines now online!

University Librarian Chris Banks at the new library "topping out" ceremony

 

A message from Chris Banks …

“This time last year we’d just celebrated the ground breaking for the new library and this issue goes to press just a few days after the topping out ceremony. Last year I sported a hard hat; this time it’s a shovel! And this time next year we’ll be up and running in the new building. This bumper issue of HeadLines has something for everyone…”

 

Issue 6 of our ezine HeadLines is available at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/ezine/issue6/headlines6.php

We hope you enjoy the read.

Documentation Team
Library & Historic Collections
factsheet@abdn.ac.uk

Reflections on our collections

Could you pen some reflections on our collections, a limerick on librarianship, a haiku for the ‘ice cube’ or a villanelle on QML? For the chance to be printed in a publication to mark the opening of the new library please send us your terse verse or whimsical wordplay on our libraries, museum and special collections and archives. Dirty doggerel will be read with amusement but not published!

[written by Georgia Brooker].

Please send your contribution to factsheet@abdn.ac.uk

Springer e-books trial includes the Protocols Series

From now until October 2010 the SpringerProtocols are available on a trial basis from two websites:

1. www.springerprotocols.com – this is a portal site which offers only the Protocol content with additional Web 2.0 features and search capabilities.  The supplier recommends this way to access the Protocol material to make best use of the content.  When searching here you’re only looking at the Protocols.
2. www.springerlink.com – this is where the full e-books trial is held and Protocols can be searched for along with other e-book content.

Further information can be obtained from Principal Information Consultant, Susan McCourt (s.mccourt@abdn.ac.uk).

Use our services? Your opinion matters

There is still time to complete the Library & Historic Collections annual survey. Whether you visit the library building to study or only use our online resources from a distance, we welcome your views on what we do to support your studies.

Please link to the survey from the email sent by Library & Historic Collections on Tuesday 27 April. The survey closes at midnight on Saturday 8th May. Many thanks.