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Lunchtime lecture by Professor Sam Smiles;
Wednesday 13th June 2012, 1pm
University of Exeter
Lecture Theatre 1
Queen’s Building
Free public lecture – no need to book.
Massive thanks to all our hard working Library Champions this year. Your views have helped the Library focus new developments and your work on ordering library stock has been much appreciated by all.
This year, the Library Champions have bought 602 new print books, DVDs and e-books across all subject areas.
Are you interested in becoming a Library Champion for 2012/13? If so, please see our webpage for more details, and have a look at the film of two of this year’s Champions talking about the scheme.
On Monday 11th June we need to run some necessary maintenance on the Library system.
This will begin at 16:00pm and should take between 3 -4 hours however the system must be considered “at risk” for up to 24 hrs so until 16.00pm on Tuesday 12th June.
During this time there will be no access to our catalogue plus you also will be unable to look at your own record, renew items online or to place reservations.
If you wish to borrow or return items you will need to go to the library desk as neither the self issue or returns machines will be working, however we can manually do this for you.
To access e-journals you will need to go via the Electronic Library but if you have any questions or issues please do ask us.
We apologise for the inconvenience this will cause and have endeavoured to schedule these works at a quieter time for our users so that we can ultimately deliver an upgraded service .
If you have any queries related to this work please get in touch.
A big thank you to everyone who has put in a suggestion to the Library ‘I want one of these’ scheme.
The following titles, suggested by you, have been ordered this month!
Rethinking the rethorical tradition : from Plato to postmodernism
The Ends of rhetoric : history, theory
Contemporary rhetorical theory : a reader
Spaces of vernacular creativity : rethinking the cultural economy
Mad tales from the Raj : colonial psychiatry in South Asia
Global credit management : an executive summary
If you want to suggest a book for the Library to purchase then please go to our Online form at IWOOT
On Friday 25th May, the winners for the Images of Research 2012 competition were announced. The competition was run jointly by the Library and Employability & Graduate Development and was open to all postgraduate researchers. It aimed to highlight the wide range of research that is taking place at the university, using images to look at that research in a new and exciting way. There were three categories and a winner was selected in each by our panel of judges.
The three categories & their winners were:
Enhancing the quality of life, health & creative output
Winner: Helen Owton ‘The Meaning of Breathing’
Increasing the effectiveness of public services & policy
Winner: Nick Napper ‘Are text based slides really the best we can do?’ (pictured alongside his winning poster with David Billington (one of the judges & Executive Director of Great Western Research))
Fostering UK & global economic importance
Winner: Neil Ormerod ‘Trail Test’
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all those who entered. Thanks also to the Annual Fund for their generous support of this project. The posters are now available to view in the breakout space in the Research Commons.
There are a couple of optio
ns if you wish to sell or dispose of your unwanted textbooks:
1] Blackwells offer a Buy Back Scheme through their online site offering 33-40% of the books initial cost.
2] Book-Cycle is an Exeter-based charity which will happily accept all book donations.
On the 1st June 2012, the Ready Text Collection which has been temporarily housed in the Law library in the Amory Building , will move to the Forum Library. It will be available in the Express Collections area which is accessed from the main entrance, to the left of the Library Reception Desk.
The Temporary Reserve Collections supporting Law and Arabic will also move into the Express collections area.
Books will be unavailable for a short period only as they transfer between libraries. The move has been scheduled for after the examination period in order to minimise disruption.
The Lasok Law Library is moving to the new Forum Library during 29th May – 6th June 2012. This move has been timed to coincide with the end of the Law examination period which means that law collections will remain available to law students in Amory for the duration of their exams.
The Law Library will remain open throughout the moves and can continue to be used as study space. However, owing to the disruption of the collection moves, it is recommended that students or staff who require quiet or silent study or research space, use an alternative study space location, during this period.
Law materials will be unavailable for a short transit period only as it moves between libraries. Law staff and students will be able to borrow additional loan items and reference copies during the transfer period, if they need to secure continued access to a particular item during the move period. Staff and students should speak with Law library staff in Amory in order to make these arrangements.
This represents a major change for users of the Law Library so if you have any questions about the move, please get in touch with , the Law Librarian, for more information or to arrange a tour of the new Lasok Law library.
A new website is being created to support law staff and students which will bring together information about the new physical Law Library arrangements, as well as the breadth of legal material that is available to users online. A range of tours and training opportunities will also be scheduled for existing and new staff and studentsfor the new academic session.
The vacated Law Library space in the Amory Building is being refurbished over the summer as part of a £1 million investment in the Amory Building which will include a new study centre on the ground floor, refurbished seminar rooms, an upgrade to the Parker Moot Room and new premises for the Law School.
This is to remind you that if you have any library books on loan to you these must be returned by 1st June 2012 and any outstanding library fines must be settled. If any books on your record have been misplaced you will need to pay the current book replacement charge to the library.
Payment can be made in a number of ways:
If you have a query, please contact us at or on 01392 723867
The Open Exeter project is pleased to invite all UoE researchers to Discuss Debate Disseminate: A discussion of the issues around the management of your research materials and data and an opportunity to network with other researchers. PhD students and early career researchers from all disciplines welcome.
The event will take place on 22nd June 09:00 – 12:30 in the Upper Lounge of Reed Hall on the Streatham campus.
Programme
09:00 – 09:15: Arrival coffee/tea
09:15 – 09:30: Welcome
09:30 – 10:30: Session 1: Delete, Keep or Share?: Each researcher brings one example of research material or data (this could be, for example, in electronic or paper format). In groups you will describe your research material or data briefly before discussing whether you would delete it, keep it, or share it, and why.
10:30-10:45: Coffee/tea break
10:45-11:30: Session 2: “Speed data dating”: Meet and get to know other researchers and the issues that they face with their research materials. Are there any common problems or solutions?
11:30-12:15: Session 3: PhD student panel session: Open Exeter PhD student answer your research materials management questions.
12:15-12:30: Feedback and Close
Please register for the event via email to
For event details see: https://www.facebook.com/events/407590612590904/