UEL at Barking Learning Centre

I don't know how much publicity has been given to the UEL short courses and tasters running at the Barking Learning Centre. See the link below if you are interested.

http://www.uel.ac.uk/blc/index.htm

PLATO - Academic Integrity Week

As it is Academic Integrity Week beginning March 3rd, I just wanted to remind you that the PLATO tutorial on plagiarism is available on the Library Homepage. It would be useful to reimind students to have a look at it.

Also, I am always available to do presentation on plagiarism and referencing to your classes. Please get in touch with me and I am sure we can arrange a convenient time during the semester.

http://www.uel.ac.uk/lss/index.htm

Dare to be Digital 2008

Just some information about a competition that might be interesting for our computing students.



Dare to be Digital is the UK's premier video games development competition which supports the creation of video games prototypes by talented, young developers in order to showcase their talent and prepare them for working in industry. Teams of students studying Arts, Computing and Audio related degree courses at University (usually in their 3rd and 4th years), are given the opportunity to develop a computer game prototype for 10 weeks during the summer in a near to real world development environment, whilst receiving support from industry specialists.To help them along the way the students receive £1700 and help from industry specialists to compete for a place in the final. The finalists of the competition will then go on to compete for cash prizes by pitching their prototype to a high profile of judges from the video games business. The 3 winning teams then form the entries to the BAFTA Ones to Watch award which is presented at the BAFTA video games awards.


http://www.daretobedigital.com/

UEL Library Blog

http://uellibrary.blogspot.com/

To keep up with all the latest UEL Library news, we do have a UEL Library Blog. Some of the information may be included this blog but I often find out new things about the Library when I read it.

Fines Block

Some of you may have found that you cannot renew your library books due to a fines block that has been put on all accounts. Basically, anyone with fines from last semester - staff or students - have been blocked. However, it has been decided at our Customer Services Meeting today that the blocks will be removed from all staff accounts. So the fines will remain, but staff will now be able to renew and take items out once again.

Athens Accounts

Athens accounts seem to have come up alot during the library questionnaire. You do need an Athens account to access our electronic resources from home and also to access e-books. You do need to set up a new account each year. Please email my colleague Robert Anderson

r.n.anderson@uel.ac.uk

if you need to set up a new account for this year.

SCONUL ACCESS

SCONUL ACCESS is a scheme that allows staff and most students to borrow 5 items from other university libraries that are part of the scheme. (Some of you may know it as UKLP)

Please see the below link for information and a list of participating universities. Most London Universities are members.

http://www.access.sconul.ac.uk/users_info/index_html

If you would like to join, you can get the membership card from the library counter on the first floor.

Extra Money for Books

I have emailed everyone about this already - it is nice to spread some good news for a change. We have been given more money to buy books this year. So please channel your orders through your Library Representatives - Tricia Webb for Computing (all areas), Graham Ford for Civil Engineering, Richard Latham for Surveying and Bill Bailey for Electrical Engineering.

Library Questionnaire

Many thanks to those of you who made appointments with me to fill out the library questionnaire. About one third of the lecturers have got back to me. So, if I haven't yet seen you, please do email me with a convenient time and I will come over to your office. It will only take about 15 mins at the most.

Centre for Alternative Technology

I don't know how much everyone knows about the Centre for Alternative Technology - we do have a lot of students who study there. I gave an induction in September and it was very impressive. For more information, please see the links below or on the right.

http://www.cat.org.uk/courses

http://www.cat.org.uk/graduateschool

Links through Feedblitz now working!

Earlier on in the week, the links that you received through Feedblitz weren't working. But I have tried today and they seem to be working fine. But I do appreciate you letting me know when problems occur.

Trial of Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

We have a free trial of the online edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The access has been set up for East London University until 23rd February 2008. Access is now available by IP address at http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Free Trial of Who's Whos

http://www.ukwhoswho.com/

A free trial of the online version of Who's Who and Who Was Who starts today at http://www.ukwhoswho.com. The access has been set up for East London University until 23rd February 2008.