Opening hours - last week of term

Please note that the opening hours of the ClIC for the last week of term are as follows:

Monday 14 December - Thursday 17 December: 8.30 am - 5.00 pm
Friday 18 December: 10.00 am - 2.00 pm
Saturday 19 December: CLOSED

Hope you all have a great break. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our users.

Christmas closure

Please note that the CLIC will be closed from Monday, 21 December 2009 until Monday, 4 January 2010 inclusive. We would like to take this opportunity to wish all our users a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.

LITEhouse survey

The annual LITEhouse survey is out now. It is available for staff and students in both paper form (from the Issue Desk of the CLIC) and in electronic form using links below (also available from the home page of the College Intranet):

Staff Survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s/2SY7GG6

Student Survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s/2SSTN6X

Please take a few minutes to fill in one of these surveys as the feedback from these surveys do help us to analyse and improve our services.

This week's Top 10 e-books

Just a quick reminder that we all now have access to over 3000 ebooks. Here are a few that caught the eye of the library staff this week, along with the links you can find them at:


The Google story - Vise, David A.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/langside/docDetail.action?docID=10104395

Sport tourism: interrelationships, impacts, and issues - Adair, Daryl.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/langside/docDetail.action?docID=10096131

The pocket essential horror films - Odell, Colin.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/langside/docDetail.action?docID=5007504

Handbook of social work with groups - Galinsky, Maeda J.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/langside/docDetail.action?docID=10210624

Programming believable characters for computer games - Baillie-de Byl, Penny
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/langside/docDetail.action?docID=10066523

Visual Basic.NET black book - Holzner, Steven.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/langside/docDetail.action?docID=10014741

The complete idiot's guide to trouble-free car care - Ramsey, Dan
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/langside/docDetail.action?docID=10048559

Age and the acquisition of English as a foreign language - Garcia Mayo, Maria del Pilar.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/langside/docDetail.action?docID=10051979

Adventure guide. Cuba - Lougheed, Vivien.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/langside/docDetail.action?docID=10167377

Vintage Murakami - Murakami, Haruki.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/langside/docDetail.action?docID=10048894


These are just a very small selection of the available e-books. You can access all of them by going directly to ebrary (http://site.ebrary.com/lib/langside/home.action). With more than 3000 titles, I'm sure there will be something for everyone!

Learn to use Microsoft Word 2007 CD-ROM

The CLIC has recently added this CD-ROM to our stock. It gives a good introduction to using Microsoft Word 2007 and is easy to use. The CD-ROM is available from the Issue Desk and runs directly form the CD-ROM and so can be used on any computer in the CLIC.

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing CD-ROM

The CLIC has recently purchased the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing CD-ROM. This is an excellent resource to help you improve your keyboarding skills with over 425 practice sessions and tests as well as 16 challenging typing games. This CD-ROM is available from the Issue Desk to be used on PC19.

Ebook of the week

All staff and students at Langside College now have access to the ebrary collection of around 3,000 ebooks at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/langside.

We have now started to catalogue each of these ebooks in our catalogue so that you can find them using our online library catalogue.

The one which caught our eye this week is:

Bill Bryson's African diary http://site.ebrary.com/lib/langside/Doc?id=10023449

Happy ereading!

October Week

Please note that we will be open as follows during the October Week break:

Sat 10 October: CLOSED
Mon 12 October: CLOSED
Tue 13 October - Fri 16 October: 10 am - 4 pm
Sat 17 October: CLOSED

We will return to normal opening hours as of Monday 19 October.

Saturday closures

Please note that the CLIC will be closed on Saturday, 3 October 2009 and Saturday, 10 October 2009 due to staff absence. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

September weekend holiday

Please note that the College Learning Information Centre will be closed from Friday, 25 September until Monday, 28 September inclusive for the September weekend holiday.

Early closure Tuesday 8 September 2009

Unfortunately, due to staff illness, the CLIC will close early today at 5pm. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. We should return to normal opening hours as of Wednesday, 9 September.

Early closure Monday 7 September 2009

Unfortunately, due to staff illness, the CLIC will close early today at 5pm. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

New booking system - MyPC

Booking a computer @ the CLIC? It’s as easy as 1 2 3 with MyPC our new computer booking system.

1 Walk up booking
For an instant booking of up to 2 hours simply log on to an available computer using your college network log in details. If you do not have a network account then you can still book onto a computer, using a guest account, with staff at the Issue Desk.

2 Booking with CLIC staff
If you want to book a computer in advance, or you do not have a college network account, then you can make a booking with library staff at the Issue Desk.

3 Booking online
You can also log into the MyPC booking system , using your college network log-in, to make bookings for yourself.

Rules/Limits
Whatever booking method is used the following rules/limits apply:

• max. of 2 hours per booking (30 minute extension is possible);
• max. of 6 bookings (totalling no more than 5 hours) per day;
• max. of 6 advance bookings allowed up to one week in advance;
• 3 warnings (at 10, 5 & 3 minutes to go) to save any open documents PLEASE NOTE: YOUR WORK WILL BE LOST IF YOU DO NOT DO SO;
• advance bookings are held for 10 minutes before being cancelled;
• use of the computers are strictly limited to the CLIC’s opening hours;
• improper use or behaviour can lead to a ban from accessing any of the computers in the CLIC.

New library assistant - Susan Gray

Welcome to Susan Gray, our new library assistant who takes up her post on a full-time basis today. Susan replaces Judy Wasige, who has moved on to pastures new with the SQA, and has already settled in her new role extremely well.

Early closure Friday 12 June

please note that the College Learning Information Centre will close early at 12.15 pm on Friday, 12 June as staff will be attending the "farewell to the old building" lunch that day.

May Weekend Holiday

Please note that the CLIC, together with the rest of the LITEhouse, will be CLOSED from Friday, 22 May until Monday, 25 May inclusive. We hope you have a good break and we will be back to normal opening hours when we open at 8.30 am on Tuesday, 26 May.

Easter Opening Hours

Our opening hours during the upcoming Easter break will be as follows:

Monday 6 April - Thursday 9 April: 10.00 am - 4.00 pm

Friday 10 April - Monday 13 April: CLOSED

Tuesday 14 April - Friday 17 April: 10.00 am - 4.00 pm

Saturday 18 April: CLOSED

Essential FE Toolkit Series

We have recently added the following books from The Essential FE Toolkit Series to our stock:

Teaching the FE curriculum: encouraging active learning in the classroom / by Mark Weyers. (in non-fiction section at 378.125)

Assessment in FE : a practical guide for lecturers / by Andy Armitage and Mandy Renwick. (in non-fiction section at 378.166)

E-learning in FE / by John Whalley, Theresa Welch and Lee John Williamson. (in non-fiction section at 378.1758)

FE lecturer's guide to diversity and inclusion / by Anne-Marie Wright. (in non-fiction section at 378.198)

Getting the buggers motivated in FE / by Susan Wallace. (in non-fiction section at 370.154)

Getting the buggers to learn in FE : dealing with the headaches and realities of college life / by Angela Steward. (in non-fiction section at 378.17)

Guide to race equality in FE / by Beulah Ainley. (in non-fiction section at 378.19829)

Guide to teaching 14-19 / by James Ogunleye. (in non-fiction section at 378.125)

How to manage stress in FE : applying research, theory and skills to post-compulsory education and training / by Elizabeth Hartney. (in non-fiction section at 155.9042)

How to teach in FE with a hangover: a practical survival guide / by Angela Steward. (in non-fiction section at 378.125)

A survival guide for college managers and leaders / by David Collins. (in non-fiction section at 378.111)

Teaching adults / by Amanda Hayes. (in non-fiction section at 378.125)

A to Z for every manager in FE / by Susan Wallace and Jonathan Gravells. (in non-fiction section at 378.111)

A to Z of teaching in FE / by Angela Steward. (in non-fiction section at 378.125)

Ultimate FE leadership and management handbook / by Jill Jameson and Ian McNay. (in non-fiction section at 378.111)

The ultimate FE lecturer's handbook / by Ros Clow and Trevor Dawn. (in non-fiction section at 378.125)

These books are designed to be compact and readable with a target audience of time-poor FE lecturers, managers and leaders trying to do their best in their increasing complex and demanding roles. If you fit that bill you may want to check out this series.

New carpet

The good news is that the CLIC is getting new carpet tiles. The bad news is that we will be closed all day on Saturday, 14 March and we will also close early at 1.15 pm on Friday, 13 March to allow this work to be done.

Janet Taylor - new library assistant

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Janet Taylor as a part-time library assistant at the CLIC. Janet will cover our evening and Saturday opening hours. Her appointment means that we are now able to return to our normal opening hours, including Saturdays, which are:

Monday: 08.30 - 21.00

Tuesday: 08.30 - 21.00

Wednesday: 08.30 - 21.00

Thursday: 08.30 - 17.00

Friday: 10.00 - 16.30

Saturday: 10.00 - 14.00

The above opening hours are term-time only - holiday opening hours will be posted.

Staff Development Week

Please note that the CLIC will be closed to students during the Staff Development Week from Monday, 16 February to Saturday 21 February.

New DVD - Driving theory test & hazard perception in Arabic

We have just added a new 2 disc DVD to our stock to help Arabic speakers pass their driving test. The first DVD helps you tackle the theory test while the second DVD covers hazard perception. This resource is available from the Issue Desk and runs on PC 23.

Click here to see a full listing of the DVDs and CD-ROMs which we have available in the CLIC as well as other guides to resources and services provided in the LITEhouse.

Top Ten at the CLIC

Just in case you were curious here is a list of the top ten most borrowed items from the CLIC:

1 Care in practice for Higher Still
2 Sociology: themes and perspectives
3 Lifespan development
4 A first course in psychology
5 Good housekeeping magazine
6 Occupational therapy and physical dysfunction: principles, skills and practice
7 Psychology for higher
8 Child abuse: towards a knowledge base
9 BBC Good Food magazine
10 Visual Basic 6: how to program

Happy reading!

New Best Sellers!

Among our new titles now are the following best sellers by new American President Barack Obama:

The audacity of hope and Dreams of my father: a story of race and inheritance.

Also new to our stock are books on driving theory test translated into Urdu.

Students interested in knowing what benefits they are entitled to may check out our new book;

'Benefits for students in Scotland Handbook; 2008-2009'.

For further titles please visit our library catalogue

Opening hours

The CLIC is returning to normal opening hours as of the week beginning Monday, 19 January 2009. However we will not be able to open on Saturdays until the appointment of a new library assistant which we hope to do later this month. So until further notice our opening hours are as follows:

Monday - Wednesday: 08.30 – 21.00
Thursday: 08.30 – 17.00
Friday: 10.00 – 16.30
Saturday: CLOSED

New readers for ESOL students

We now have a large number of new readers available to ESOL students. The good news is that they all have accompanying audio CDs to improve your listening skills. ESOL readers are arranged into five categories according to level of difficulty as follows:

Grey - Starter, Elementary or Pre-intermediate
Red - Elementary, Pre-intermediate or Intermediate
Yellow - Pre-intermediate, Intermediate or Upper-intermediate
Blue - Intermediate, Upper-intermediate or Advanced
Green - Upper-intermediate or Advanced

For further details about the books or to view more titles visit our library catalogue.

Federated Access Management Update

We are pleased to announce that remote access (i.e. outside of the College) to several of our online resources is now available through the UK Federation method of authentication.

This means that any of our online resources, listed in the Online Resources section of the College website, as being able to be accessed "via UK Federation log in" can now be accessed outside of the College as follows:
Step 1 Go to web address of the resource you wish to access
Step 2 Click on link or button to log in via UK Federation or via your home organisation or similar
Step 3 Select Langside College from the list of eligible institutions
Step 4 Click OK in the "Choose a certificate" box
Step 5 Log in using your Langside College network log in
Step 6 You should now be given access to the resource

Please note that when you are using a computer within the College network you normally are automatically logged into our online resources.

Dawsonera ebooks free trial

The CLIC has started a 30 day free trial (until Monday 2/2/09) of the Dawsonera ebooks collection. Dawsonera is a searchable web-based collection of over 80,000 ebooks which can be previewed online and once purchased can be viewed online, downloaded to a PC, laptop or USB flash drive and printed (up to 5% of ebook can be printed in line with copyright rules). Readers can even request for an ebook to be "rented" for a short period of time if we have not already purchased it.

The CLIC can order ebooks in the same way as printed books for just over the cost of the hardback version of the book and, again like a printed book, we will own this book outright although access to it is resticted on an annual basis. So ebooks may be a very economic solution to the age-old problem for librarians of everyone wanting the same book at the same time. Also ebooks can't be overdue, lost, damaged or stolen!

The free trial gives us access to 50 ebooks without charge to allow you to see how the system operates and to get a feeling of what an ebook is. You are also able to preview any of the other ebooks in the collection (currently around 82,000) for up to 5 minutes.

To access this free trial of the Dawsonera ebooks collection go to www.dawsonera.com and log in using the Direct Login details which are available on request from the CLIC.

New periodical - ELT Journal

We have taken out a new subscription to the ELT Journal starting with the January 2009 (Volume 63 Number 1) issue. This is a quarterly journal (published in January, April, July and October each year) for teachers of English to speakers of other languages.

The first issue is now available from the periodicals section of the CLIC but remember that the current issue of periodicals is for reference only while back issues can be borrowed for up to a week at a time.

Further information about this journal together with an archive of articles from previous issues are available from the ELT Journal website at: http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org

LITEhouse Survey

Quick reminder that we are conducting our annual LITEhouse survey and would like to encourage as many of our users as possible to take part. The survey is designed to help us guage the effectiveness of our services and identify any weaknesses in our provision. Your responses to the survey are both anonymous and confidential so please be completely honest – we want to know the truth even if it hurts!

Completing the survey should take less than 10 minutes and hard copies are available from the College Learning Information Centre and the Flexible Learning Centre. The survey is also available online by clicking on one of the following links:

Student survey

Staff survey

Many thanks to all who take the time to complete this survey.

Temporary opening hours

Unfortunately, due to a delay in a new member of staff taking up their post to cover our evening and Saturday openings, the College Learning Information Centre will have restricted opening hours. So from the week begining 5 January 2009 until further notice the opening hours of the College Learning Information Centre will be as follows:

Monday: 8.30 - 17.00
Tuesday: 8.30 - 17.00
Wednesday: 8.30 - 17.00
Thursday: 8.30 - 17.00
Friday: 10.00 - 16.30
Saturday: CLOSED