tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50077841657509265082012-01-27T10:01:39.334ZNews and information from the Academic Services Team: to support your studies, research and teaching at Aberystwyth University.Karl Drinkwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07221158786075866113noreply@blogger.comBlogger631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007784165750926508.post-35276156745632304972012-01-26T16:04:00.002Z2012-01-26T16:09:17.423Z

This term we will do a series of posts introducing you to the members of the Academic Services Team. This time it is the Psychology librarian. Karl Drinkwater I'm one of those people who came to Aberystwyth to do a qualification (in my case an MSc in Information and Library Studies) then stayed, because it was easier than trying to catch a train out of the town. That was over thirteen years ago

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Please can you disseminate the following to colleagues in your Department: Information Services is continuing to review holdings of printed journals collections in line with the IS Collection Management Policy. The list of titles here has been identified for withdrawal under the UKRR scheme having had no demand in the last 10 years. Please review this list and let us know if you believe they

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The Virtual Training Suite is a set of free Internet tutorials to help you develop Internet research skills for your university course. All of the tutorials are written and reviewed by a national team of lecturers and librarians from universities across the UK. The interactive, teach-yourself tutorials take around an hour to complete - you simply work through the material in your own time at

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This term we will do a series of posts introducing you to the members of the Academic Services Team. This time it is the Information Studies and Management and Business librarian. Anita Saycell Having spent many voluntary hours from the age of 14 working in my local public library (not all Essex girls spend their time going out) my library career was starting to take shape. Next step was a paid

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In my last post we had a look at the basics of Primo, the University's library catalogue. Hopefully that should have given you enough information about how to search for a book and locate it in the library. Let's now explore the more advanced and personalised features the catalogue has to offer, and how it can help manage your work in the library more effectively. Before doing anything it's

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Aberystwyth residents are lucky to have the National Library of Wales on our doorstep. The National Library has an amazing collection of resources and at the moment it is offering daily welcome sessions aimed at introducing the library and facilities to any new readers (along with sessions on other topics, all free). You can register for the sessions online and there is information about getting

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During the week beginning 07 November 2011 you have the chance to tell us what we've done right and how we can improve the printing/copying/scanning service. There is an option to be entered into a draw for a prize of a £30 Amazon voucher. Go to: www.survey.bris.ac.uk/aber/suggestions11

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Come to: Step in, step up, steps to success! Win a Samsung netbook! Free snacks Share your study hints and tips, and the challenges too 12:30-15:30 on Wednesday 2nd November in Hugh Owen Library. and bring your questions for: Daniel Butler, University Writing Fellow John Morgan, Student Support Julie Keenan, Careers Robin Chapman, Department of Welsh Information Services Any enquiries to:

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"I have reason to believe your wife's jelly is famous all over Wales." Rare seaside postcards once considered too saucy for publication are among 35,000 images to be launched online for the benefit of education and research. The images have been digitised and catalogued by the British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent. Also newly available are research and teaching aids on cartoons,

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This term we will do a series of posts introducing you to the members of the Academic Services Team. We'll start with the Academic Services Manager and Law Librarian. Take it away Lillian... Knap of Howar, Papa Westray, Orkneys Lillian Stevenson I have been working in Information Services and the Library at Aberystwyth University for a fair few years and like a lot of people studied at Aber too

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Of all the resources the University subscribes to, it’s pretty much guaranteed that you’ll be using Primo right from the start of your degree. As the library catalogue, Primo gives Aberystwyth University students details on all items in the University libraries, as well as a vast range of online databases to further your research. It also acts as the access point for your library account,

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Here's our new video that gives you a step by step guide to finding the book you need.

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Whether you’re studying Politics, Law, History, or are simply curious about the inner workings of Parliament, you’ll find a wealth of information to fuel your research at the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers database (HCPP). Free to all Aberystwyth University students and staff, HCPP provides users with an extensive database of Parliamentary Papers, spanning from 2004 all the way back to

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By Rosie Atherton (former IS Graduate Trainee) As a self-confessed addict to Google Maps, I would thoroughly recommend spending an hour or two immersing yourself in the fantastically absorbing world of EDINA Digimap Collections. EDINA Digimap Collections are subscribed to by Aberystwyth University, allowing all University students and staff the opportunity to become registered Digimap users…

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8,000 rare photographs of Chinese life in the early twentieth century have just launched online through the Visualising China project, a unique virtual archive giving researchers new opportunities to explore and interact with images of China taken between 1850-1950. The site offers researchers free open access to major online collections such as Historical Photographs of China (University of

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Visit the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) or visit via Databases A-Z in Primo http://primo.aber.ac.uk/. In their “focus on Modern Wales” in May, the ODNB added 45 biographies of men and women who, “shaped the history of Welsh culture, politics, industry and sport”. Look out for the bilingual posters in the Hugh Owen Library this week. The new biographies include Lewis Valentine

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Connected Histories provides a single point of access to a wide range of distributed digital resources relating to early modern and nineteenth-century British history. It allows structured searching by names, places, and dates and provides access to millions of pages of text, hundreds of thousands of words and tens of thousands of maps and images. With the click of a mouse, researchers

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ProQuest’s Rebecca Price is visiting Information Services on the morning of Thursday 9th June to provide three update sessions on the new ProQuest platform and the ProQuest resources to which we subscribe. The updates will take place in the Law Library Seminar Room, Level E, Hugh Owen Library: 9.00-10.15 ProQuest: New Platform This session will cover new features and functionalities

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- Search the full text - See articles as part of the page they were printed on - Sort search results by news, feature, image and advertisement - See your search term highlighted on the page image - Pick a date and browse that issue Aberystwyth University subscribes to the Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 so staff and students can access the full text without cost. Read a brief content

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For September 2010 Information Services redesigned the library induction experience for undergraduates. We wanted students' first experiences of the library to be informative but also enjoyable and engaging, so we re-thought every aspect of the induction: location, content, marketing, timetabling, technologies, even seating - hence the famous beanbags! As a result we won the 'Highly Commended'

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Nineteen years ago I attended a workshop organised by the British Council in Manchester. A facilitator at the workshop predicted the death of the “book” before the turn of the next century. Two decades on and the “book” still lives, albeit wearing different cloaks, one of which is the “e-cloak”. There is no doubt that e-books, i.e. digital versions of text-based materials, have captured the

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A two part video created to support the Exam Skills event run by Information Services. Students talk about their examination experiences and study preferences.

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1. Acid damage to vegetation following the Laki Fissure eruption in 1783 - an historical review (Grattan, John et al) (2160/225) Full Text viewed 307 times 2. 'No Longer Lost for Words: Antigone's Afterlife' (Forsyth, Alison) (2160/2435) Full Text viewed 256 times 3. Redesigning health administration for the medical profession (Preston, Hugh et al) (2160/1814) DOI accessed 243 times 4. Talk

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Undergraduates looking to refresh their study skills can now enrol on a non-credit bearing BlackBoard module and choose classes from the Undergraduate Study Practices programme. Classes take place on Wednesday afternoons in Llandinam Building and Hugh Owen Library and focus on writing, communication and information skills Students can self-enrol through BlackBoard and sign up for some or all

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I joined Aberystwyth University in September this year. In my previous job at the University of Leicester, I was involved in a project which investigated student transition into higher education. One major finding of the project was students' characterisation of various types of information presented to them before and during their first few days in University: Objective, highly structured formal

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The imaginative design of spaces to shape learning behaviour is a topic that has always fascinated me. I grew up in an era where the idea was promoted that learning occurred only in a PLACE (Pupil, Lessons, Authority of the teacher, Classroom and Examination). Over the past decades there has been a paradigm shift which now promotes the idea of learning environments as SPACES (Social,

Sahm Nikoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973919777600193641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007784165750926508.post-39333469731803259482010-12-22T09:33:00.003Z2010-12-22T09:43:25.661Z

Some new case studies showcasing information literacy best practice across all library and educational sectors in Wales have just been published by the Welsh Information Literacy Project.They help to underline the importance of information literacy - to find out more have a look at the project website.

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How do search engines work? How can you improve your searches and assess the relevance of the results? Do you want to pick up some basic tips on using search engines?There is an open talk covering these topics on Wednesday 8th December, 2-3pm, in room 0.01 of the Edward Llwyd Building.

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Information Services have a number of e-book readers in loan stock which can be borrowed (free!) for 14 days at a time. As a trial we are putting one of them on open access in the Hugh Owen Library's Contemporary Fiction Collection - on your left as you come into the library.We've loaded it with a wide selection of novels, plays, poems and short stories for you to browse at your leisure.If you

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Below you can view the video of a fifteen-minute talk given to Psychology Department undergraduates by Karl Drinkwater on Thursday 30th September 2010. It covers the basics of what plagiarism is and how to avoid it by adopting good academic practice. Subtitles have been added. For more information about plagiarism and good academic practice, see these pages; and here for SafeAssign information.

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The information here will help to assist you in finding a book in the Hugh Owen Library.You can also now watch our new video that gives you a step by step guide to finding the book you need.

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1. (July #2) Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Falileyev, Alexander) (2160/282) PDF MAP 2. (new) Humanitarian Intervention in World Politics (Wheeler, Nicholas) (2160/1925) FULL TEXT 3. (new) Organic farming (Lampkin, Nic H.) (2160/3130) LINK TO PUBLISHER WEB SITE 4. (July #1) Modern Bedouin

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1. The Effects of Enhanced UV-B on Plant Competition: An Application of Metabolic Fingerprinting. (Rinu, George) (2160/673) IBERS 2. Management Control Systems and Managerial Dysfunctional Behaviour: An Empirical Study of Direct, Intervening and Moderating Effects (Soobaroyen, Teerooven) (2160/567) SMB 3. The 'China Threat' in the Eyes of the Taiwanese: A Reflection on Taiwan's Security Policy

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Top 10 academic items in CADAIR for July 2010: 1. Modern Bedouin exposures to copper contamination: an imperial legacy? (Grattan, John et al) (2160/231) FULL TEXT 2. Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Falileyev, Alexander) (2160/282) PDF MAP 3. Salivary antimicrobial peptides (LL-37 and alpha-defensins HNP1-3),

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JISC Digital Media in conjunction with the Virtual Training Suite (VTS) have launched two new online tutorials: Internet for Audio Resources and Internet for Video and Moving Images. The free to use tutorials have been designed to assist staff and students within the education sector to locate audio and video for use in both teaching and learning. Dave Kilbey, Training Coordinator at JISC

Karl Drinkwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07221158786075866113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007784165750926508.post-66337249296233822502010-05-27T15:37:00.003+01:002011-11-03T11:39:07.803Z

We have recently set up access to BFI InView. It contains over 2,000 non-fiction film and television titles from the 20th century to the early 21st. It is easily searchable and clearly organised under six main Themes, each with an introductory essay by an academic historian. From the BFI website: "Carefully selected from the vast holdings of the BFI National Archive, InView's Collections

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Information Services is continuing to review access to existing printed journal collections. Staff and students increasingly use electronic resources over the print equivalent and demand on space in the Hugh Owen Library is increasing as it begins to service a growing number of departments relocated to the Penglais Campus. This requires a critical review of existing library collections and the

Joy Cadwalladerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050070658791901684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007784165750926508.post-83299129107333126722010-05-07T08:56:00.001+01:002010-05-07T08:56:47.519+01:00

See Newton's Principia as featured in episode one of The Story of Science on BBC2 in Early English Books Online (EEBO). Each page has been digitised so AU staff and students can view the text as it was originally published in 1687. EEBO comprises more than 125,000 of the earliest books printed in the English language and full-text searching has already been added to many of the digitised titles.

Joy Cadwalladerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00050070658791901684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007784165750926508.post-86671106529849143142010-05-05T16:53:00.002+01:002010-05-05T17:00:27.651+01:00

[Image by JISC Infonet]Help the University "Learning Spaces Group" understand what kinds of spaces you need for your studies/research by completing this survey. We'll be using the results to shape our plans.There are only three pages of short questions - we really want to have your input into our plans, so please complete as much as you can.The survey is completed anonymously, can be saved part

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[Image by nickwinch] As you are aware Information Services is reviewing access to existing print journal collections. Staff and students increasingly use electronic resources over the print equivalent and demand on space in the Hugh Owen Library is increasing as it begins to service a growing number of departments relocated to the Penglais Campus. This requires a critical review of existing

Karl Drinkwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07221158786075866113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007784165750926508.post-71789892778226196632010-04-09T09:58:00.000+01:002010-04-09T10:25:35.508+01:00

Information Services will be offering members of staff a chance to attend a day to demonstrate new developments in ICT at Aberystwyth. The technologies shown could well help you work and/or deliver your teaching more effectively. More information. CDSAP Online Course Booking.

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Information Services now subscribes to Who’s Who (and Who Was Who) online at: http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/elecinfo/eiaz/#w or in the Reference section of eLibrary: http://elibrary.aber.ac.uk/ Published annually since 1849, Who’s Who is a, “directory of the noteworthy and influential in all walks of life, in the UK and worldwide”. The subscription includes annual updates, and “Who Was

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Information Services has won the Higher Education Libraries category of CyMAL's Marketing Innovation Awards 2009-10, which aim to celebrate marketing innovation in Welsh libraries. Our entry was based on the Good Academic Practice day we held in the Guild of Students.The event was a collaboration between staff from within IS as well as the Guild of Students, Student Support Services, Royal

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By popular demand, the Hugh Owen Library is hosting a book swap on a permanent basis on Level D by the Welcome Desk. Library users are invited to 'bring a book, take a book'. The service is free of charge. We have a diverse range of titles donated or swapped by users and our collection is ever-changing. All you need to bring is an old book to swap.

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Information Services have implemented a free trial of a new article recommender service ‘bX Recommender’. The recommender service is similar to Amazon’s “customers who purchased this also purchased…” except it is for journal article recommendations. It makes recommendations based on real usage data gathered internationally and points to relevant scholarly articles. More information. If you would

Karl Drinkwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07221158786075866113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007784165750926508.post-2137007309761646152009-12-02T13:05:00.003Z2011-11-03T11:42:21.723Z

Please ensure that you do not use your Aberystwyth University (email) login and password on the websites of e-journals, e-books and other AU electronic resources. You should only use these on a website or dialogue box that is in the .aber.ac.uk domain e.g. shibboleth.aber.ac.uk. Instructions for accessing e-journals etc off-campus are given in the ‘Authentication’ note in E-journals @ Aber or

Karl Drinkwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07221158786075866113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007784165750926508.post-21560649950044078692009-11-11T15:15:00.013Z2011-11-03T11:42:43.360Z

"Mind the GAP - avoid pitfalls with Good Academic Practice" Good study skills lead to better marks and make you more organised and less stressed. Good referencing and reading widely help to avoid plagiarism. Using high-quality sources of information improves the quality of your work. Do you want to know more? If so come to the Guild of Students on Wednesday 25th November for a half day of free

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New videos showing how JISC is helping researchers achieve faster, better and different research through virtual research environments have just been released on YouTube. The videos feature projects from JISC's virtual research environment (VRE) programme, which is trying to find ways to connect people and speed up research processes across disciplines. These include astronomy, physics,

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The Library alerted and sought feedback from academic departments in the summer that we intended to move to electronic-only subscriptions for Oxford University Press, Springer, Cambridge University Press and Elsevier journals from January 2010 onwards. This has now taken place. Please see the lists of journal titles which have been converted to e-only. This is part of a bigger review of

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO): This vast collection of fully-digitised material, including books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more, has recently been expanded. From Gale, the publisher: “Firstly, since ECCO's original release, the ESTC has uncovered a wealth of valuable new material and new holdings of previously unavailable titles. Secondly, rapid developments in scanning

Karl Drinkwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07221158786075866113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007784165750926508.post-10297881243868908462009-05-28T12:48:00.006+01:002011-11-03T11:44:24.897Z

[Image by minhtu under Creative Commons] We are living in an age where time is perceived to be in short supply. We all need information; we would ideally like to receive it at point and time of need. If it is 3am and you are trying to finish a piece of research but need to check a quotation or citation, then you don't want to wait until the library opens in order to do so. Fear not,

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[Picture of the Senedd] The bibliography on Devolution and the New Legislative Bodies in the UK is a useful tool for researchers and others interested in the process of devolution and the working of the new legislative bodies. The bibliography is primarily concerned with secondary sources, including articles, books and reports, which relate to the process of devolution within the United

Karl Drinkwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07221158786075866113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007784165750926508.post-66696439728590514842009-04-15T11:08:00.005+01:002011-11-03T11:45:02.707Z

What is eLibrary? eLibrary is a gateway to quality academic resources, such as peer-reviewed articles and selected websites. It also lets you search a number of databases at once, combining and filtering the results so that you spend less time searching for relevant material to support research and study. Why use it? eLibrary allows you to search and display results from a selection of our

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Isn't it nice when something you want is brought to you, so that you don't have to go out yourself to fetch it? If we apply that thought to research, it is possible to individually visit the websites of a wide range of journals - and to browse the printed copies the library holds - in order to try and keep up-to-date with your field. But it would be a monotonous job that could take up all your

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It's that time of the year again. Last year you let us know that you wanted new computers in the computer rooms, and we provided them. What do you want us to do this year? Information Services User Survey How are we doing? Please tell us what you think Closing date March 31 http://www.inf.aber.ac.uk/user-survey.asp Prize draw - Win a £40 Book Token

Nia Ellisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007784165750926508.post-83120128229216715902009-03-02T11:46:00.000Z2011-11-03T11:50:22.553Z

In celebration of World Book Day students and staff are invited to drop into the Hugh Owen Library, Thursday 5th March between 10am and 3pm to: • Play with the Latest E-book readers • Take part in our Book Swap – Bring a book - Take a book! We also have 100 FREE Canvas bags to give away as part of Cadwyn y Canolbarth’s campaign. Recycle at your library - 'Free books, less waste, and more trees

Matt Huntnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007784165750926508.post-15626206464820371212009-02-23T15:09:00.002Z2011-11-03T11:46:27.714Z

Digitised in 2007 through collaboration between the British Library, Gale/Cengage and the National Science Foundation, the Burney Collection was acquired by the British Library a year after the death of Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), a classical scholar and schoolmaster. The online collection contains 1,270 titles and consists primarily of parliamentary papers, London newspapers,

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Short skills courses in Hugh Owen Library, 13:10-14:00 on Wednesdays, are available as follows: Find everything on your reading list (February 18th) Keep up to date in your subject of study (February 25th) Evaluate online information for your academic work (March 4th) Use software to create easy bibliographies (March 11th) Word for essays and dissertations (March 18th) Course descriptions and

Karl Drinkwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07221158786075866113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007784165750926508.post-41870062300745220862009-01-30T12:29:00.007Z2011-11-03T11:47:01.558Z

As part of our commitment to providing the latest resources, Information Services became part of the JISC National E-books Observatory Project - an experiment aiming to understand how e-books are being used that could help to shape the future of e-book provision in the UK. The project is investigating: the impact of core text e-books on student learning; how students find and use e-books; what

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Introduction to Information Services for newly appointed staff and research postgraduates Date : Monday 12th January 2009 Venue : Hugh Owen Library Training Room A series of short sessions aimed at AU staff and research postgraduates. For more information, click here.

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The recent Happy Days campaign, encouraging everyone to take a fresh look at their library has made two students in Wales £100 richer – and one of them came from Aberystwyth University! As part of the campaign nearly 400 students across Wales volunteered to take part in a survey to state why libraries make them happy, resulting in a top ten list and a collection of personal stories showing the

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