Dawsonera and Apple devices

A Happy New Year to all our readers. You young people are starting to use tablet devices more frequently, and some of you have always used Apples. If you use an iPad or a Mac and want to download ebooks from Dawsonera, please bear in mind the following: Macs and iPads come with a free PDF reader which unfortunately can't handle the peculiar type of pdfs used by Dawsonera. To read Dawsonera PDFs on your iPad, download this from iTunes To read them on your Mac, make sure that you have Adobe Reader as your default PDF reader. There should be no problem reading them online however

Happy New year!

All the Library staff wish you the very best of year 2013!

Christmas break closure: reminder

DBS Facilities will be closed from Friday 21st Dec. until Tuesday 1st Jan. inclusive but Aungier Street building will be open 9.00-18.00 on Thursday 27th Dec., Fri. 28th Dec. and Mon. 31st Dec.

The two libraries will close on Thursday 20th Dec. at 17.00 and will re-open on Wednesday 2nd Jan. at 9.00 for AS Library, and 9.30 for DS Library.


Note as well that the two libraries will be open 11.00-17.00 on Sudnay 6th January.

Happy Holidays all!
(check the full schedule of opening hours here on the Library website)

Reminder re: Sunday opening

Dear students, remember that we are open this coming Sunday, Dec. 16th 11.00-17.00 and Sunday 6th Jan. 11.00-16.00.
Full opening hours are available here on the Library website.

Dawsonera e-book - outage on Sat. 8th Dec. 2012

On Saturday 8th December 2012, our e-book provider Dawsonera will be performing an essential upgrade on their web service and this will result in an outage between 10am and 6pm that day.

Good luck to our ACCA students!

All the Library Staff wishes the very best of luck to all students taking ACCA exams in the coming days.

Winter exams 2012-2013 timetables

Your Winter exams 2012-2013 timetables are now available via the student intranet, under the ‘Timetable’ section: the 'Exam timetables' page can be displayed by clicking on the link on the left-hand side of the screen at http://www.dbs-students.com/Timetables/Default.aspx

SPSS Session for Business Master Students

Lecturer Nicole Gross is running SPSS/stats sessions over the year and the schedule for the coming weeks (before Christmas) is as follows:

1. SPSS / stats Beginners - Thursday 22nd November 2012 9.00-11.00AM - CH2.2
2. SPSS / stats Beginners - Thursday 13th December 2012 9.00-11.00AM - CH2.2
3. SPSS /stats Advanced - Thursday 6th December 2012  9.00-11.00AM CH2.2
4. SPSS /stats Advanced - Thursday 13th December 2012 12.00-14.00 - CH2.1

There will be more sessions advertised in the new year and you can just turn up to the classroom at the time mentioned.

These are for Business Master students who are doing quantitative research (i.e. surveys/questionnaires).

Sunday Opening & Christmas Closure

Library Sunday opening

To help you with your winter exam revisions, Aungier St. and Dame St. libraries will be open on the following 3 Sundays from 11.00 to 17.00:

• Sunday 9th December
• Sunday 16th December
• Sunday 6th January

Christmas closure

The College will be closed from Friday 21st December until Tuesday 1st January inclusive.


All opening hour details are also available on the Library website under the About the library section, as well as by using the QR code:


 









 
Enjoy the Christmas break and good luck with your exams!

More resource trials

We've gone trial happy here.  Another two to talk about. As ever, they are available on-campus only.

Both come from the nice people at Pro-Quest.  The first is Academic Complete, an award-winning scholarly e-book database, yeah, more ebooks.  You can read these online or download them, either chapters (40 pages maximum) as imaged PDFs (so no cutting and pasting) or as Adobe Digital Editions format documents (for a maximum of 14 days).  You will need to download the free Adobe Digital Editions software before you can use this format.  Oh and you can't read these on your Kindle, but you'll be able to read them on most other devices.  However there's a large number of books to browse (+80,000) and we'll see about adding some of them to the library catalogue temporarily.  Academic Complete is available until the end of the month.

The second is the Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive which is:

The Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive is an archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. Includes the core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in high-resolution color, with granular indexing of all articles, covers, ads and reviews.

That's sound's good, doesn't it?

All feedback on these resources gratefully accepted. And in case you didn't get the links, here they are again

Academic Complete

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive