24 hour opening in Central Library February 26, 2007
Posted by Jenny in Library Notices.Tags: Central Library, Library Notices, opening hours
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From Monday 5th March until Friday 22nd June, the Central Library will be open 24 hours a day (except for Friday nights from 11pm until 9.30am Saturday mornings for essential maintainence).
The only exception to this will be over Easter when the Central Library will be closed from 11pm on Thursday 5th April, re-opening on Monday 9th April.
See the Imperial College Library website for further information.
Zetoc service downtime – Thursday 22 February February 21, 2007
Posted by Jenny in e-resources.Tags: Database, eresources, service downtime, website, zetoc
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Please be advised that as a result of routine maintenance there will be a loss of network connectivity to Zetoc for 5 minutes (up to 20 minutes at risk period) on Thursday 22 Feb at 08.00.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. Please contact the helpdesk at zetoc@mimas.ac.uk should you have any queries.
Science Direct – system down time Saturday 24 February 2007 February 20, 2007
Posted by Jenny in e-resources.Tags: ejournals, eresources, sciencedirect, service downtime
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ScienceDirect will be unavailable on Saturday, February 24th for approximately 9 hours starting at 11:00 GMT.
During this time engineers will be implementing a large-scale rebuilding program on some of the core aspects of the platform’s underlying technologies, which will help ensure that the system continues to provide a high level of reliability in the coming years.
ScienceDirect apologises for any inconvenience that this will cause to users, they hope they can minimise this by providing this advance notice.
Users who log in will see a notice saying that the system is temporarily unavailable.
New books in Physics – February 2007 February 15, 2007
Posted by Jenny in New Books.Tags: Central Library, New Books, Physics
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Click on the link below a list of the new books we have received, in the physics collection located in the Central Library during February.
Most of them should be on the shelves, double check on the library catalogue and place a hold if they are not available.
New books in Maths – February 2007 February 15, 2007
Posted by Jenny in New Books.Tags: Central Library, Maths, Maths Library, New Books
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Click on the link below a list of the new books we have received, both in the Mathematics Department Library and the Central Library during February.
Most of them should be on the shelves, double check on the library catalogue and place a hold if they are not available.
Library implementation of the Information Resources Management and Access Policy (IRMAP) February 13, 2007
Posted by Jenny in Library Notices, e-resources.Tags: ejournals, Journals, Library Notices, Maths, phyics
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The College Library Committee* recently approved a revised collection development policy (the IRMAP) for Imperial College Library. A copy is available on the Library homepage – About the Library/Policy & Strategic Directions/IRMAP
This Policy gives guidelines on the selection, location, retention and relegation of the Library’s information resources, in order to support the research, teaching and learning needs of the College in the 21st century.
The shift will be towards electronic availability of information wherever possible. Print material will be kept on-site where of high relevance, value and use to College; print material of low relevance, value and use will be stored off-site or disposed.
Faculty Support Librarians will be involved in the ongoing analysis of Library resources and will consult wherever feasible with relevant staff and researchers when decisions are made about disposal of resources.
A current analysis is taking place of all print journals held in the Central Library. For further information about this or details of other resources to be analysed in 2007, please contact your Liaison Librarian, Jenny Evans.
Reps on the College Library Committee are:
Faculty of Engineering: Prof D Chadwick, Dr D Lloyd Smith;
Faculty of Natural Sciences: Prof M Robb, Prof A Warwick;
Faculty of Medicine: Prof S Kroll, Dr D Dexter;
Business School: Prof R MacCulloch;
Humanities Programme: Dr F Mellor.
