July 2011

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Online ILLs for all staff/PhDs/MPhils begin 1/8/11

13 July, 2011 in General news, Inter-Library Loans

A quick, convenient online inter-library loan (ILL) ordering system extends to all research postgraduates and staff from 1 August 2011.

Staff/PhDs/MPhils - use Unicorn online

Student using Unicorn Library system

Researchers and staff will use Unicorn to request ILLs

Using your Unicorn Library account, the new system improves on both  previous arrangements: paper-based requests and the pilot online system. You can dispense with:

  • signing additional paper copyright declarations;
  • signing or obtaining signatures of authorisation; 
  • attaching blue ILL vouchers.

Accounting for the nominal £3 contribution to the real cost of each request (the Library bears the rest) will be centrally arranged between departments and the Library.

Taught students - continue with paper requests

We hope to extend online ordering to undergraduates and taught postgraduates sometime in the future. However, currently taught students must continue to submit paper requests with a blue ILL voucher from their department and a tutor’s signature.

More information

From 1 August 2011, full instructions will be on the Library’s Inter-Library Loans webpages. Futher enquiries to Nick Hollis, Circulation Services Manager.

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New dictionaries and encyclopedias – June 2011

5 July, 2011 in New reference works

Need to look something up? Your Library gives you access to many different respected resources - both in print and online - like dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Here is just this month’s list of new reference works!

New printed reference works at Main Library

Encyclopedia of dairy sciences / editor-in-chief, John W. Fuquay ; editors, Patrick F. Fox, Paul L.H. McSweeney.
Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2011.
2ND FLOOR REFERENCE–637.03-FUQ

Oxford advanced learner’s dictionary of current English.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
3RD FLOOR DICTIONARIES–423-HOR

Green’s dictionary of slang  / Jonathon Green.
Edinburgh : Chambers, 2010.
3RD FLOOR DICTIONARIES–427.09-GRE

The history of western philosophy of religion / edited by Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis.
Durham : Acumen, 2009.
3RD FLOOR REFERENCE–201-HIS

Encyclopedia of gender and society / edited by Jodi O’Brien.
Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, c2009.
4TH FLOOR REFERENCE–301.424-ENC

Encyclopedia of world terrorism.
Armonk, N.Y. : Sharpe Reference, c1997.
4TH FLOOR REFERENCE–323.2-ENC

21st century economics : a reference handbook / edited by Rhona C. Free.
Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, c2010.
4TH FLOOR REFERENCE–330-TWE

The Oxford international encyclopedia of legal history / Stanley N. Katz, editor in chief.Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
4TH FLOOR REFERENCE–340.5035-OXF  

Encyclopedia of power / edited by Keith Dowding.
Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2011.
4TH FLOOR REFERENCE–301.155-ENC

Encyclopedia of world terrorism.
Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference, 2003.
4TH FLOOR REFERENCE–323.2-ENC 1996-2002

The classical tradition / Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, Salvatore Settis, editors.
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2010.
4TH FLOOR REFERENCE–938-CLA

New printed reference works at Bulmershe Library

The guide to educational grants 2011/12 / Sarah Johnston.
London : Directory of Social Change, 2011.
QUICK REFERENCE–378.34-EDU

New printed reference works at Special collections

W.H. Smith : timeline / Christopher Rule.
London : Selia, 2009.
REFERENCE–381.450020942-SMI/RUL

For more reference works, look up individual titles on the Unicorn catalogue.

New online reference works

To find existing titles go to our Online dictionaries and encyclopedias page  or search the Unicorn catalogue.

Other new resources

Other new books and new e-books are listed on the Unicorn catalogue.

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