Main Library - Borrowing and Opening Hours

As part of a range of measures to help students during the examinations and in mitigation of the construction work at the Main Library, from Monday 26 November to Friday 14 December:

• the Helpdesk will be loaning bound journals to students on an overnight
  loan basis
  
• Reserve items will also be loaned overnight
  
  • from 5pm Monday-Thursday
    
  • from 2pm Friday and Sunday, and
    
  • from 12noon on Saturday
    

Since we are closed on Sat 15 Dec, the last effective day of lending overnight bound journals and Reserve on this basis is Thurs 13 Dec (see Christmas Opening Hours).

Also, owing to essential electrical works at Appleton Tower affecting services to the Main Library, the Main Library building will close at 5pm on Friday 14th December (instead of midnight) and Helpdesk services will end at 4.50pm (instead of 6.50pm).

Main Library Photocopy Facilities

The Photocopy Room on the 1st floor of the Main Library will close from 28 July. However, in the week beginning 30 July but services will be available throughout the week on the 1st floor landing, the Current Journals area and in the Reserve Collection.

JCM Library - Informatics Stock Move

Much of the current lending stock and all of the journals have now been moved to the Main Library, and the Catalogue entries have been changed to reflect the new location. Unfortunately, there is a current problem with some of the items which have been updated to state they are in the Main Library, when in fact they are still in the JCM Library. We are not quite sure why this is, but it does appear to be affecting short loans the most.

We are currently looking into this issue and hope to have it resolved as soon as possible. If you are having difficulty locating an item, please double check the Catalogue location. If it says Main Library, and the item cannot be found in the Main Library, then please get in touch with staff at the JCM Library Service Desk in the first instance (or alternatively speak to staff at the Main Library Helpdesk and they will contact JCML on your behalf).

Many thanks and apologies for this temporary inconvenience.

Sarah Kelly
Liaison Librarian for Informatics and Medicine

JCM Library - Informatics Stock Move

Further to the message on June 28th , pleased be advised of the following moves:

Thursday 05 July 2007

• All current and pre-current (un-bound) issues will be moved to the 1st floor of the Main Library.
• All bound journals will be moved to the 3rd floor of the Main Library.

Friday 06 July 2006

• All books (LC collection) will move to a temporary location on the 4th floor, then to their permanent location in the 4th floor LC sequence.

For further information contact Sarah Kelly, Liaison Librarian.

Tours of the Library Research Annexe

Dear Colleague,

You are cordially invited to an open day at the Library Research Annexe. The open day will be on the 3rd August.

The Research Annexe opened in November 2006. The LRA houses approximately 40,000 meters of Special Collections and general collections material and is currently well used by researchers from both Edinburgh and abroad.

Tours of the LRA will be available both morning and afternoon. Please indicate in your reply which tour you would wish to partake in. Numbers will be limited so an early reply would be appreciated.

Refreshments will be available.

Detailed instructions on how to get to the LRA are below.

Tours of the LRA on the open day of 3rd August [please indicate in your reply which tour you would like to attend] 11.00-11.20 12.00-12.20 2.00-2.20 3.00-3.20

The LRA address is:

Unit 2b
Block 20-22
South Gyle Crescent
Edinburgh

The Research Annexe is located along South Gyle Crescent, immediately after South Gyle Crescent lane. The Library Research Annexe is at Block 20-22 South Gyle Crescent. Lothian buses numbers 2,22,35 provide a frequent service. As the bus enters South Gyle Crescent you will pass a row of shops, a hairdressers, O'Briens Sandwich bar and a Chinese buffet, the bus stop you want is immediately after these shops (there is a bus stop directly outside these shops but you want the bus stop after it). The bus stop is outside a large Post Office Building, Tallents House. The Library Research Annexe is directly across the road from this building, there is a sign on the front of the building which says Edinburgh University

Tours are open to University staff and students. Please RSVP by July 27th to:

Sheila Noble
User Services Librarian
Special Collections, Main Library
Edinburgh University
George Square
EH8 9LJ

INFORMATICS COLLECTION - MOVE FROM JCM LIBRARY TO MAIN LIBRARY

Informatics Collections Move to the Main Library - July 2007

• In line with the re-location of the School of Informatics to the Central Area, much of the Informatics Collection will move out of the JCM Library to the Main Library this summer.
• The outline below explains which material is being moved and where it will be located after the move
• There will be some material which will stay in the JCM Library (generally items currently in store)
• During the move items should be unavailable for a maximum of 1 day
• On completion of the move, all Catalogue entries will reflect the new item location

The JCM Library currently holds the Collections for the Schools of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, however, only material paid for with the Library’s Informatics allocation will be moved.

• Books on open shelves and Reserve
  Informatics purchased books currently on the open shelves will be move to the Main Library. Staff have been consulted about items currently in Reserve and whether they should remain in Reserve next Semester. Maths and Physics Reserve items will remain in the JCM Library, Informatics Reserve items will be placed in Main Library Reserve. See ‘Finding Books’ and ‘Informatics Reserve’ Guides for further information.
  
• Current journal subscriptions
  Journal titles currently being purchased from the Library’s Informatics allocation will move to the Main Library (both current un-bound and bound Volumes). (Please note, many of the current subscriptions are available electronically). See ‘Finding Journals’ Guide for further information.
  
• LNCS
  Springer is still working to make all Volumes available online. Therefore, the complete run of LNCS and LNBI (currently at the Darwin) will be integrated with the LNAI volumes available on open access shelving at the Main Library at shelmarks QA75.5 Lec. Open access may be reviewed at a later date.
  
• Theses
  All Informatics theses are currently being digitised as part of an ongoing project, therefore, the working copies will remain in the JCM Library store. Until digitisation is complete, readers can consult the working copies in the JCM Library or the archive copy in Special Collections at the Main Library. For both Libraries, readers should contact Library staff in advance as the thesis will have to be retrieved from a store.
  
• Lesser Used Material
  Items currently held in store (including non-current journal titles previously purchased from Informatics funds) are not heavily used and will remain in store, either at the JCM Library or at the Library Research Annexe.

The Guides referred to can be found at: http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resbysub/info/presentationsandhandouts.shtml

WHAT IF THE MATERIAL I WANT TO CONSULT IS NO LONGER HELD IN MY ‘LOCAL’ LIBRARY?

If you find that material you wish to consult is now permanently located in a Library which is not within walking distance, please contact your Library Representative/Liaison Librarian, to discuss the purchase of additional copies.

If additional copies are not necessary, or it is during the period of time when some members of the School of Informatics are based at KB, but their Collection is at the Main Library, you may wish to apply for a FREE Intra-Library-Loan (see below).

FREE INTRA-LIBRARY LOANS

Staff and Postgraduates from all schools are entitled to free Intra-Library-Loans (transfer of material from one University Library site to another, where they are not within walking distance). In addition, Informatics undergraduates may apply for free Intra-Library-Loan at KB libraries from September to December 2007 (this applies to Main Library material only).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Rowena Stewart (Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)
Sarah Kelly (Informatics and all other enquiries)

A PDF information sheet of the above information is also available.

Access to Non-Athens Authenticated resources Off-Campus

Athens is an authentication service which facilitates access to some BUT NOT ALL Information Services subscription resources. Using AthensDA you are able to log-in to these Athens authenticated resources using your EASE username and password (pre-2005 you had to have a separate Athens username and password).

You can get an overview of all of our Athens authenticated resources via auth.athensams.net/my/, where you will be prompted to log-in with your EASE username and password. Clicking on the 'Resources' tab on the top left will give you a full list.

• THIS IS NOT A LIST OF ALL INFORMATION SERVICES SUBSCRIPTION RESOURCES
• THESE ARE ONLY THE ATHENS AUTHENTICATED ONES
• SOME RESOURCES ARE NOT ATHENS AUTHENTICATED

Finding non-Athens-Authenticated Resources

The School's Library allocation is used to pay for, or subscribe to, many useful online resources which are not Athens authenticated. To find out the main resources in your subject area, visit the Guide to Resources and Services in Informatics at http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resbysub/info.shtml. Here you will find information about various different online resources, such as book collections, journals, literature databases (for comprehensive literature searching), dictionaries/encyclopedias, resources to identify impact factors, and many other online resources. In addition there are printable handouts, links to presentations and other information, which you may find useful in order to get the most out of Library Services.

Accessing non-Athens-Authenticated Resources

For those resources which are non-Athens authenticated, most verify authorised use by IP address checking (i.e. you will be able to access these resources without a username or password while on-campus). Off-campus you can still access these resources via one of the following methods:

1. EZProxy
   
   Links to all resources on the Guide to Resources and Services in Informatics should redirect you to the resource via EZProxy, which will mean you are prompted for your EASE username and password. By entering these, you should be able to access the resources as if on-campus (all resource URLs are prefixed with http://ezproxy.lib.ed.ac.uk:2048/login?url= and these links work both on and off-campus).
   
   
2. ProxyCache
   
   Further information is available at http://webhelp.ucs.ed.ac.uk/docs/proxycache.html.
   
   
3. VPN
   
   Further information is available at http://www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/nsd/access/vpnservice.html.
   

(2) and (3) require configuration of your browser and/or registration as this will allow access to other university restricted services, not just Library resources. (1) is for Library resources only, but is very straightforward as all it requires is a web-browser and your EASE username and password.

If you are having difficulties with (2) or (3), please contact your Computing Support team (http://www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/usd/).

If you are having problems with (1), or have any further queries about Library resources, please get in touch with me.

Sarah Kelly
Liaison Librarian