September 21st, 2008 by Justin Clark
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For any student especially tuned into the inner workings of the library, at last count there were 3 of you, you may well have noticed a vast increase in the amount of popular books now available as holdable items instead of short term loans. This is because we are looking at whether or not having more holdable loans is better and provides easier access to items rather than short term loans. This means more general loans and fewer 3 and 7 day loans.
We hope this change will allow students not desperately in need of a textbook to have more copies they can place holds on therefore lowering the size of some of the hold queues for our books while those students who do desperately need a textbook should still be able to come in to the library and find a 3 or 7 day copy on the shelf.
What the codes mean:
3 and 7 day loans: can only have the item for 3 or 7 days, cannot place a hold on the book, cannot renew the book, book cannot be recalled, $2.00 a day late fees for the first 4 days which becomes $4.00 a day after that.
General loans: can have the item for 14 days, if undergraduate, 28 if postgraduate or staff, can have for a semester loan on request, can place a hold on the book, can renew the book, book can be recalled, $0.20 a day late fees which becomes $0.95 a day if the item has been recalled. |
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Please let us know if you like the idea of more general loans, hate it or if it is completely irrelevant as you get all your information from the Internet. |
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September 16th, 2008 by Justin Clark
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August 25th, 2008 by Justin Clark
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With the ever increasing do-it-yourself attitude around the library the idea of having students police their own group room bookings has surfaced. This would mean that it would be up to students to clear out of the room when their booking was finished to make way for other students. Is it a good idea? Or a bad idea? Will it make the group rooms a Utopia of Harmony or a Field of War? We are interested to hear any and all opinions. Personally I have a lot of faith in the students who visit the Biological Sciences Library and after some initial teething problems, while everyone gets used to the new way of policing rooms, it will work out very well with only a minimal amount of problems. But then I’m an optimist. |
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August 19th, 2008 by Justin Clark
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Stuck? Confused? No idea what those numbers mean next to the books or need help finding current research into the muscular/skeletal movements of Polar Bears? Then take advantage of the Ask a Librarian service. That’s the little box on the front of the home page. Just type your question in and one of our ever ready staff will help you out. It’s safe, it’s fun and best of all it’s free! |
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August 4th, 2008 by Justin Clark
| Planning on staying home during the Olympics because you’re worried that you might miss some of the action? There is now no need to miss all important lectures and tutorials as you can drop into the Biological Sciences Library and watch the action live on the big screen. That’s right the channel 7 Olympics telecast will be screening daily at the Biological Sciences Library. So why not drop in between classes and check out the action. |
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July 22nd, 2008 by Justin Clark
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Due to the great success we had last semester with keeping the library open until midnight, and the fact that we might well face a student revolt if we didn’t, we will be continuing with the Midnight openings at the Biological Sciences Library for 2nd semester 2008.
So feel free to come in and make use of the libraries facilities until the wee hours. |
A quick note, you cannot book a group room after 9:00pm so if a room is free simply wander in and grab it.
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July 17th, 2008 by Jo Spicer
In the first few weeks of the semester, the Biological Sciences Library will be holding training sessions to help with your study. These sessions will be held in eZone 2 (Level 2) of the Library and bookings are not required. The sessions are as follows -
Getting started in a UQ Library - July 23 (Wed) 1-2pm. Click here for class content
Finding Journal Articles for Assignments - July 28 (Mon) 1-2pm; July 30 (Wed) 12-1pm Click here for class content
More Effective Internet Searching - August 1 (Fri) 1-2pm Click here for class content
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July 15th, 2008 by Justin Clark
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If you are scratching your head about the new library home page and are not sure how to find things in the library catalogue then we have designed a quick tutorial to help out. It should only take a couple of minutes and is designed to give a very brief overview of a couple of its features. |
New home page tutorial
If this doesn’t relieve the confusion then feel free to ask staff at the information desk, email or call us or use the new ask a librarian service featured on the new home page.
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July 8th, 2008 by Kelly Whitehorne
Welcome to the Biological Sciences Library blog!
The aim of this blog is to keep everyone up to date with new developments at the library. We’ll also be adding posts about other general UQ happenings. But we don’t like to blog alone! So please feel free to comment on any of our posts. Just keep it clean…..
This post will remain at the top of the blog so that you can provide us with general feedback about the library - what you like; what you don’t like; what confuses the heck out of you…! Entries on more specific topics can be found below (or under Recent Posts).
So, jump into the blog. The water’s fine and we hardly ever bite. Seriously.
*splash*
ETA: Due to a technical hitch, previous comments on this post went missing in the blogosphere. However, we have added previous suggestions (e.g. shade cover for the bike stand) to our modifications list.
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April 23rd, 2008 by Kelly Whitehorne
Ever wanted to find out more about the process for publishing in scientific journals? The University of Colorado have developed a tutorial called: “Publish, not Perish - The Art and Craft of Publishing in Scientific Journals” which will answer many of your questions.
The tutorial is available at: http://www.publishnotperish.org/intro/
It covers such information as:
* the role of publishing in an academic career
* the essential steps of planning and writing a scholarly paper
* developing a personal publication plan
* comparing and contrasting the different publishing models currently in use
* the types of articles you can write
* the pros and cons of collaborative authoring; and
* the tools and resources a scholarly writer needs to have on hand.
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