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