Issue 5, April 2009

University of Lincoln Library & Learning Resources

Newsletter for staff

and students

Student Advisers: your new PALS

L
ibrary & Learning Resources and the Inside this issue:
Centre for Education and Research
Development (C.E.R.D.) are piloting a Student Advisers: your new 1
peer-assisted learning (PAL) project, in PALS
which Student Advisers (undergraduates), will
All 7 UK research councils now 1
"rove" in key student working areas at three of
mandate Open Access
the University's campuses.
Reconfigured learning at 2
Student Advisers will offer first line study Risholme
support, addressing information and academic
literacy, I.T. enquiries and providing general My name is ERL* - Paul 2
mentoring and support for student learning. Stainthorp talks about his new
role
They will make referrals to Academic Subject
Librarians, where appropriate, and assist with Free online training from 2
Microsoft
shelving and tidying, and maintaining printer/
copiers. Academic staff event in June 3

There are currently 11 undergraduate LibraryThing; What’s on your 3

students working as Student Advisers bookshelf?
(PALs) across all three campuses (Hull, Supporting learning at Holbeach 3
Riseholme and Brayford). Visit the PAL page
on the Library and Learning Resources
Portal page for further information. Summer loan changes 4

Four of the eleven PALs—Clockwise from top left: News blog 4

For specialist subject support contact your
Emily Gough, Charlotte Gibling, Raechel Lemmon
Academic Subject Librarian. LearningDevelopment@Lincoln: 4
and Akua Asamoah
supporting student success

Theses online 4

All 7 UK research councils now mandate

T
he Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council (EPSRC) (www.epsrc.ac.uk/
AboutEPSRC/AccessInfo/ROAccess) has agreed
to mandate open access publication for research
that it has funded, bringing it in line with the other 6
councils and with the Research Councils UK’s policy
(www.rcuk.ac.uk/access).
Guidance on open access is available on the CERD
Academic Commons website (commons.lincoln.ac.uk/
open-access).
The University of Lincoln's Institutional Repository
(eprints.lincoln.ac.uk) has been established by CERD.
It is for the permanent deposit of research and conference
papers, e-theses, student projects and teaching and learning
materials produced by our community of staff and students.
Repository content can be browsed or searched through this
website or through searching Google.

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Reconfigured learning at Riseholme

F
ollowing staff and
student feedback, we
have changed the
usage of two of the
rooms in the Riseholme
LRC.
The former silent study
room is now designated for
use as a group working
room. This reflects the trend
towards students working
more in collaboration and
means that you should have
more opportunity to remains a multi-purpose PC
work in this way. working area, and don’t
The former group room forget there is space to study
is now designated as the without a PC in the library,
silent study room. This and you can use our wireless
room is easier for staff to network in any of our study
monitor so that it is used areas.
in accordance with LRC
guidelines, thus enabling
you to work undisturbed
Riseholme LRC group working room
when you wish to.
Please let us know if
someone is disturbing
your study! My name is ERL*
The “middle room”

E
‘Please let us know what you think of the changes, lectronic resources librarian Paul Stainthorp talks about his
and let us know your suggestions to make the new job, working to get the best out of e-books, journals and
Riseholme LRC a better place!’ more...

Pam Young, Riseholme LRC Since October last year, I've been working as the University of
Lincoln's first-ever dedicated electronic resources librarian (ERL).
But what does an e-resources librarian actually do?
Free online training Well, I've been…
from Microsoft Improving the information on our Electronic Journals A-to-Z, so

M
icrosoft has an extremely comprehensive
library of online training packages that are
free for anyone to use.
The training sites can be accessed directly from any
Microsoft package by pressing the Help key ‘F1’ this will
open a sidebar with various useful links. You will need
to select ‘Connect to Microsoft Office Online’ this will
then take you to the ‘Office Online Homepage’.
The home page has a number of links including ‘Free
online training’.
Follow this link to the training page for Office 2003 and
2007. All you need to do then is select the Office
package in which you would like training. Then select
what you need to learn about that package. Each course
takes about 30 minutes, and has audio content as
examples.
that you can find full-text electronic journals more accurately.
Helping to launch our new collection of 40,000 e-books (which
are now all visible on our catalogue), and to consider the impact
of e-books on the paper library.
Fixing the Athens login system, with University ICT services, so
that it's quicker and more reliable.
Arranging more training on RefWorks personal bibliographic
management software for academic staff and postgraduate
research students.
Piloting digital-to-digital copying and online reading lists in
Blackboard, to bring information much closer to your modules
and course of study.
Using our blog to get information out to you about any ongoing
problems with e-resources, improvements to the service, and
hints & tips on using our resouces.

Now it's over to you… What do you think of Lincoln's

e-resources? Are they easy to use? Is our information up-to-date
and accurate? How relevant is our range of e-books and
e-journals? What extra training and support could we offer you?
Please let me know!

Email me on: pstainthorp@lincoln.ac.uk

Twitter me on: http://twitter.com/pstainthorp

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Academic staff
event in June

T
he Library & Learning
Resources department and the Centre
for Educational Research and
Development (CERD) at the Brayford
campus are hosting an internal event for academic
staff from the University with the aim of promoting
various resources, services and projects.

The event entitled 'Supporting the learning

experience: a joint event by Library & Learning
Resources and CERD' will include a programme of
10 minute presentations and an exhibition in the
foyer with suppliers and book publishers who will

set up stands on the day.
The event is scheduled for the 23rd June starting at
12 noon for lunch and ending at 2pm. It will be
held in the EMMTEC building on the main campus
at the University in Lincoln.
I
f you're a devotee of the booklovers' social network Library-
Thing, we'd love you to join us online!
We're developing pages on LibraryThing for all four of our library /
LRC centres; in Lincoln, Riseholme, Hull and Holbeach.

Publicity for the event will start in May but if you
have any questions in the meantime, please contact
Oonagh Monaghan at omonaghan@lincoln.ac.uk or
telephone (01522) 886078.
You can access our LibraryThing pages at: www.librarything.com/local
LibraryThing allows you to add and share information about books in
your own collection (you have to register to do this), and to get in
touch with readers of similar tastes… building the world's largest shared
database of bibliographic information.

UniversityofLincolnLovesLibraryThing
Supporting learning at Holbeach

T
he Holbeach LRC team, Julie and management courses with a range
Smith and Daniella Nundy, of resources such as books and
now cover the service desk journals. There are also study tables,
five days a week. 16 open access computers, wireless
access and most importantly friendly
The Holbeach LRC supports food staff ready to help with your
science and manufacture, agriculture information enquiries!
Opening hours Desk services
Monday 8:00am - 5:30pm 8:30am - 4:00pm
Tuesday 8:00am - 5:30pm * 8:30am - 3:30pm
Wednesday 8:00am - 5:30pm 9:00am - 4:30pm
Julie and Daniella also offer off-campus
Thursday 8:00am - 5:30pm * 8:30am - 4:30pm support to the growing number of
distance learners such as postal loans,
Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm 9:00am - 3:30pm photocopy request service, Blackboard
Saturday CLOSED and network access support.

Sunday CLOSED Julie and Daniella can be contacted on

* The LRC will stay open later on Tuesdays & Thursdays when evening classes Holbeach (01406) 493007.
are running.
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Summer loan changes

News blog
B
ook loans will not be extended over
the summer vacation.
This is to allow greater accessibility
to the collection for all borrowers.
To accommodate the change we will be
extending the number of renewals to 20
during this period only.
We will revert back to 10 renewals from the
28th September. (3D RSS icon by Tiago Pinhal)

Renew online at
www.library.lincoln.ac.uk
using your Student ID
number and PIN
Please remember to renew your books over
the telephone - or renew your books online
24/7. Also check your email account for pre
notifiers and return books by post, if
necessary.
Contact telephone numbers for all campus
Library and Learning Resource centres are at
the bottom of this page.
D
on't forget that you can keep up to
date with what's going on in the
University Library and campus LRCs
day-to-day, by following our news blog.
Read it online, at: blogs.library.lincoln.ac.uk/news
You can subscribe using an RSS feed reader (such
as Google Reader or Bloglines), or register for up-
dates to be sent direct to your email inbox.

Theses online

D
id you know that over Broad areas have been agreed for the

the past two years the
library has run a very
successful series of
workshops for students covering
information literacy and study skills?
Workshops have included report
writing, referencing, literature
searching and essay writing.
We are now seeking to expand the
range of workshops on offer from
September 2009.
workshops and include:
• Writing (more than one
workshop to include reading
academic texts, making notes,
academic style, essay writing,
grammar, spelling and
punctuation)
• Presentation skills
• Critical thinking
• Exam preparation
• Getting started with research
E
ThOS is the new Electronic Theses
Online System from the British Library
which allows researchers to access and
archive e-theses that have been
produced in UK HE institutions.
The EThOS database can be searched directly at
ethos.bl.uk. You don't have to register to
search the database. However, if you want to
download an e-thesis or request that a listed
print thesis be digitised you are required to
register for a username and password.

A Learning Development
Workshop Group has been
established and at the present time
the group is talking to staff and
students to find out what
workshops they would like.
If you have any comments, then Links to EthOS and more information about the
please contact the chair of the group database will shortly be available on the Portal.
Helen Farrall, Learning Development
Co-ordinator
01522 886169
hfarrall@lincoln.ac.uk

University Library Hull Campus LRC Riseholme LRC Holbeach Campus LRC

Brayford Pool The Derek Crothall Building Riseholme Park Minerva house
Lincoln, LN6 7TS George Street Lincoln, LN2 2LG Holbeach Technology Park
Phone: 01522 88 6222 Kingston Upon Hull, HU1 3BW Phone: 01522 89 5310 Park Road, Holbeach
Phone: 01482 31 1654 Phone: 01406 49 3007

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