Library Matters

Glasgow Caledonian University is an Eduroam site.  Our classification is as a “Home and Visited” site. This means that visitors to GCU can authenticate their laptops through their own institution, as long as it is an Eduroam site. This will give the visitor Internet access. Conversely, any GCU staff member who visits another institution will be able to authenticate their laptop back to GCU from the ‘visited’ institution. Instructions are available on our Information Services web page.

“Boxed in? A debate exploring issues of identity, self, community and belonging for disabled people”. A panel of experts will discuss a wide range of issues around disability; issues of definition, perception, belonging, image, multiple-identities and what these and other issues mean for individuals and communities.
Date: 22nd of February 2012
Time: opens at 5.30pm, debate from 6pm – 7.45pm and then drinks reception until 8.30pm.
Where: Glasgow Caledonian University, Saltire Centre

A memorial event for Professor Mike Smith will be held on level 0 of the Saltire Centre on the 10th of February between 5.30 and 7pm. This means that there will be disruption to service on level 0 from 3pm onwards.

CINAHL is giving problems when submitting a search. We have reported the problem to the supplier and hope to have it resolved soon.

The Library is please to announce a 6 month trial to the complete Cambridge Books Online collection, through our membership of the SHEDL (Scottish Higher Education Digital Library) Consortium

The trial gives access to over 11,000 Cambridge University Press eBooks. Cambridge publishes eBooks in almost all academic subject and records for all the titles have been added to our library catalogue. The trial provides:

* 24/7 access on site, at home or on the move
* Powerful quick search, advanced search & browse capabilities
* Extensive user functionality including hyperlinked references and personalisation features
* Enhanced discoverability tools
* Unobtrusive DRM and a usage policy which allows limited printing, copy/paste, and download to PCs, mobile devices and tablets

The trial ends at the beginning of July. To explore the whole collection

Go to – http://ebooks.cambridge.org/

Take the institutional login link at the top of the page and use your Athens username and password to access content

Feedback on the trial is welcome

Learning Development Centre drop-ins will take place in the rooms 1 and 2 of the Carnegie Suite on level 1 of the Saltire Centre. They will run from 12-2pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday every week during Trimester B until the end of exams. They will be staffed by one Academic Development Tutor and one ICT skills/Learning Technologist. Each School LDC will cover one day (SEBE will cover every Monday from 16th January 2012).

Get help from your librarians. We will be

The Subject Librarians have a drop in session Monday to Thursday in the Carnegie Suite – Room 5.

People have been having trouble linking in to the full text of journal articles and eBooks. The quick and easy solution to this problem is to close explorer, and use firefox browser instead. Don’t use the desktop icon to start Firefox, use the start menu. 

• Move your cursor to the start icon at the bottom left of your screen (in the labs this is a round icon).
• Click the icon and the start menu will appear.
• On some computers, firefox will be on the list of programs, double click on it to start.
• In some labs, you need to start firefox by typing firefox in the run box on the start menu at the foot of the screen. The icon will then appear above the box, double click it to run the program.

A subject librarian will be available to help you at the base from 5pm till 8pm, Monday to Thursday.