McClay Library Enhancement Project – 2nd Update (17.06.13)

Work on the various aspects of this project will continue over the next couple of weeks, concentrating on the following areas:

Week beginning 17 June

There will be ongoing work in the atrium and the Short Loan area.

An upgrade to the Smart Card system is in progress. This will involve closure of the Print/Copy Room on floor 3 with the result that there will be no printing, photocopying, cash upload or fines payment facilities on this floor. Alternative facilities will be available on all other floors.

PC replacement work will continue on floor 2.

Week beginning 24 June

There will be ongoing work in the atrium and the Short Loan area.

There may be minor disruption to all Smart Card enabled services during this week while the Smart Card upgrade project is completed.

PC replacement work will commence on floor 1.

International & Postgraduate Student CentrePostgraduate students should note that the International & Postgraduate Student Centre will offer exceptional summer opening between 10.00am to 5:30pm on Saturdays and Sundays between Saturday 20 July and Sunday 15 September. This facility is being made available on a temporary basis to offer alternative study options for postgraduate students during the McClay Library Enhancement Project.

 Thank you for your patience during this project and we will continue to communicate details of the work planned on a regular basis.

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The McClay Library Enhancement Project June-August 2013

As previously announced, building work on this project is scheduled to start as soon as exams are over. The project will deliver 200 additional reader seats and PC spaces on the ground floor of the McClay in advance of the new academic year.
Friday 31 May – Saturday 1 June

In preparation to start work in earnest on 3 June:

The Atrium area will be closed as of Friday 31 May and PCs in this area will be relocated. PCs will also be removed from Language Labs 1 and 2. Catalogue terminals will be removed from the ground floor but alternatives will remain available adjacent to the enquiry desks on floors 1, 2 and 3.

Access to Short Loan will cease at 5.00pm on Friday 31 May. A “fetch on-demand” service will operate from this time until further notice. Please note that during the unstaffed period on Saturday morning 1 June (6.00am-10.00am), no access to short loan material will be possible.

Saturday 1 June – student desks and chairs will be removed from the Atrium area.

Week beginning 3 June

Building work will begin in the Short Loan, Atrium and Student Lounge areas.

The ground floor toilets beside the lifts will close at some point during this week. The toilets in the Student Lounge area will remain accessible.

Collection of reserved items will take place via the Borrower Services Desk.

Replacement of PCs will commence on the third floor. There will be no disruption to PC availability on floors 1 and 2 during this week.

Thank you for your patience during this project and we will continue to communicate details of the work planned on a weekly basis.

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Access Core Medical Oxford University Press Textbooks and Handbooks online today

The Library has recently purchased a number of core medical  Oxford University Press Textbooks and Handbooks which are available to access online from today.  Available via QCat Discover for on-campus and off campus access.

Oxford University Press E-books

Aimed primarily at medical students and trainee doctors, the Oxford Textbooks and Handbooks are popular worldwide for their ease of use and practicality, with each book delivering reliable, up-to-date clinical

information.

Some of the key titles available online include:

Oxford Textbook of Surgery

Oxford Textbook of Critical Care

Oxford Textbook of Public Health

Oxford Handbook of General Practice

Oxford Handbook of Rehabilitation & Medicine

Oxford Handbook of Urology

 

And Many more….

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Summer Vacation Hours

Please note that summer vacation opening hours start Saturday 1st June. Vacation opening hours are as follows:

The McClay Library

Monday – Thursday: 8.00am – 8.30pm
Friday: 8.00am – 5.30pm
Saturday: 10.00am – 5.30pm
Sunday: closed

The Medical and HSC Library

From Monday 3rd June – Saturday 3rd August
Monday – Friday: 8.30am – 5.30pm
Saturday: 9.00am – 12.30pm
Sunday: closed

From Monday 5th August – Saturday 28th September
Monday – Friday: 8.30am – 6.00pm
Saturday: 9.00am – 12.30pm
Sunday: closed

The Biomedical Library

Monday – Friday: 9.00am – 5.00pm
Saturday: 9.00am – 12.30pm
Sunday: closed

Normal late opening resumes Monday 30th September 2013.

All Queen’s libraries will be closed from Friday 12th July to Monday 15th July (inclusive).

 

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Advanced search in QCat Discover issue resolved

The earlier issue with the advanced search function in QCat Discover has now been resolved. It is now fully functional again.

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Springer Protocols now available

Springer Protocols is an extensive online collection of molecular biology and biomedical protocols enabling researchers to recreate experiments in their laboratory. They provide predefined written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments including bias, safety, equipment, statistical methods and reporting. The Protocols are taken from established sources such as Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Biotechnology and Methods in Molecular Medicine.

The resource can be accessed via QCat Discover by searching for Springer Protocols, or at the link below.

https://encore.qub.ac.uk/iii/encore_qub/record/C__Re1000385

 

 

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Free trial for Routledge Performance Archive

The Library has arranged a free trial for Routledge Performance Archive. QUB staff & students have access to the archive until 16th June 2013.  To access follow this link (on-campus only): www.routledgeperformancearchive.com

Please contact Tatyana Malinova (t.malinova@qub.ac.uk) with any comments or questions.

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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics & Society – Now Available

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics & Society is now available to QUB staff and students from here or via QCat.

This resource includes tens of thousands of historical primary sources relating to the social and political climate in Great Britain during the “long” nineteenth century, and consists of more than 1.7 million pages. The collections are sourced from a variety of institutions, including the British Library and The National Archives, Kew.

With British Politics and Society, scholars can research and explore a range of primary sources covering such topics as British domestic and foreign policy, the working class, trade unions, Chartism, Owenism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, and leisure.

 

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The Peace Process: Layers of Meaning – website now available

Peace Process: Layers of Meaning is a hybrid project involving collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London, Trinity College Dublin and Dundalk Institute of Technology http://www.peaceprocesshistory.org/

It includes the Lomond directory of surviving interviews, social investigations and oral histories of the Peace Process.

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Advanced search in QCat Discover

There is a known problem with advanced search in QCat Discover, we are hoping this will be rectified as soon as possible.

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