Learning Resources News

PLEASE NOTE:

Due to essential server maintenance, please note that the Library Catalogue will be unavailable from:

00:01-12:00 hours GMT on Thursday 18th March 2010. 

A backup Library Catalogue is available at http://www.isis.mdx.ac.uk and can be used to locate items in the library.  However, you cannot log into your Library account on the backup catalogue.  If you wish to renew or request items while the Library Catalogue is unavailable please phone the library at one of the following numbers:

Archway Healthcare Library
020 7288 3580

Dubai
04-3678124

Cat Hill
020 8411 5042

Chase Farm
020 8375 1982

Hendon
020 8411 5852

North Middlesex
020 8887 2223

Trent Park
020 8411 5646

We are currently trialling a database called Econlit with full text.  The trial runs until 12 April.  This database is a major resource for economics and includes full text from over 500 journal titles.  To access select the link below. 

Econlit

You will need to login if accessing off campus with your ATHENS username and password.

Access to H:drives and the old student email system (replaced in 2009 by Middlesex Live email) will be withdrawn on 31st March.

This will not affect first year students, but second and third years should move any remaining files to Skydrive, USB memory sticks, CD/DVD or other media.

Hendon's annual library book sale!
100s of bargains, all books priced at only £1.00 each.

Books on computing, management, marketing, finance, HR and much more.

Sale starts Monday 1st March and continues while stocks last.

Don't miss out!

A Social Policy and Practice database is currently being trialled. This database provides access to evidence-based research information covering topics within the fields of social care, public health and social policy. 

The trial commences 8th February and runs until 10th March 2010

Click here to login with your Athens username and password.  

Learning Resources are working with Nomad, a specialist library design company, to redesign the Sheppard library. The closure of Cat Hill in 2011 will bring challenges in the way services are provided and space is used so it is an ideal opportunity to give the library a makeover! 

Nomad will be in the libraries at Cat Hill and Hendon over the next few weeks observing how space is currently used, as well as running workshops for staff and students. 

They also have a Blog http://insideoutsblog.wordpress.com  and Twitter feed, www.twitter.com/mdxinsideout so sign up, follow their progress and add your comments.

Learning Resources is pleased to announce that, after consultation with the Marketing & Enterprise Department, we have replaced Mintel with a new subscription to Key Note.

Visit www.keynote.co.uk to access the database.

For help and support, please contact Samantha Halford, the Senior Liaison Librarian for Marketing & Enterprise.

Did you know you could safely cancel the Netbeans installation that occurs when you first use Internet Explorer on a university PC? This will save quite a lot of time spent waiting. This assumes of course that you don't actually want to use Netbeans! If you don't know what it is, you can assume you won't be using it . . .

Learning Resources staff at Hendon campus are now providing daily sessions in The Sheppard Library to assist students with accessing the wireless network and installing VPN software.

These sessions will be taking place in Room SB25 at the following times:

12:00 - 13:30

14:30 - 16:00

For further information about the wireless network, please visit:

http://www.lr.mdx.ac.uk/comp/wireless/

Learning Resources is building a download server to enable downloads of software packages whose licences entitle staff and students to use the software on their home computers. At present SPSS 15 and 17 for PC, SPSS 16 for Mac, Minitab and Nvivo (both for PC) are available, and other packages will follow. You will need to login to the server with your Middlesex computer network ID and password. This is the link to the download server . . .

In response to increasing demand for student access to computers at Archway campus, a short term laptop loan scheme is available. More..

A team of library information experts, led by Alan Hopkinson, Technical Manager of Middlesex’s Library Services, has been awarded an EU grant of 617,787 Euros to develop services and upgrade library staff skills in Armenia, Georgia and Uzbekistan. More..

Students can now reserve an open access computer

https://computerbooking.mdx.ac.uk/signup

Login using your IT User ID and password.

For further information about access, please click below to view the Computer Booking System helpsheet.

http://www.lr.mdx.ac.uk/comp/computer-booking/computer-booking.pdf

Students please note:

Although all Middlesex PCs for student use have Microsoft Office 2007 installed, not all academic staff have this version on their PCs. Your lecturer may not be able to open your work if it is saved as an Office 2007 file.

It is recommended that you save your work by selecting Save As (rather than Save) and then selecting the option to save as an Office 97-2003 document.

This will save a copy of the document that is fully compatible with versions of Office from 97 to 2003