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!