Library Survey 2008

The Library is currently running a rigorously tested web-based survey called LibQUAL.
It will give you the chance to tell us what you think about our services, and where the Library services need improvement. As a staff member or student, your feedback is very important.
The library is running the survey over the next 3 weeks. Please take 10 minutes to complete it. There are prizes which have been generously sponsored by suppliers.You can take the survey on our Library website.

'LibraryThing' on the Library Catalogue

As part of our OPAC redesign project, we have now rolled out a new enhancement feature. LibraryThing for Libraries is a social cataloguing web application which draws on the extensive LibraryThing database for tags, suggestions for similar titles and details of other editions and translations.For an example of the links see “The architecture of happiness” by Alan De Botton.You will see a list of “Similar Books” and a “tag cloud” at the bottom of the page.If you click on one of the tags at the bottom of the screen, it will open a tag browser which will show books in our collections with that LibraryThing tag.In the same way, the “Similar Books” list is linked through the tags. All links are to other books in our collections.

Multimedia Area on Q+3

The new Multimedia area is now open on Q+3. We have 21 booths. 19 have 26” Bravia LCD TVs, 19 have Dell PCs, 4 have Blu-ray, 6 have multiregional DVD (HDMI), 9 have multiregional DVD/VCR combis. 2 of the booths will have the old audio equipment (for cassettes and vinyl records).