Christmas opening hours

Please note that, due to the continuing poor weather, the CLIC will close at 5pm from Monday 20 Dec. until Wednesday 22 Dec. Also we will be CLOSED for the Christmas break from Thursday 23 Dec. until Wednesday 5 Jan. inclusive, reopening at 8.30 am on Thursday 6 January.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish all our users a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.

College meeting on Friday 17 December

Please note that the CLIC will be closed from 11.15 - 12.15 on Friday 17 December to allow staff to attend an important College meeting.

Library Survey for Session 2010/11

Please help us to improve the resources and services we provide by taking a few minutes to complete our annual survey. Surveys are available from the Issue Desk and completed surveys should also be handed in there.

Many thanks in advance.

Join Glasgow Libraries at the CLIC

We now stock Glasgow Libraries membership forms and cards. This means that students and staff at Langside College, as people who either live or work in Glasgow, can now join Glasgow Libraries without the hassle of actually going to a public library! Simply fill in the membership form, which is now available from the College Learning Information Centre (no proof of address is required), and hand it in at our Issue Desk. We will then immediately issue you with your public library membership card which you can then use to access the wide range of resources and services provided by Glasgow Libraries, which complement those provided by us, including:
access to all public libraries in Glasgow including the Mitchell Library;
24 hour online library with a good selection of online resources particularly on business, news & current affairs;
large book stock including novels, factual books (including local history collection) and childrens’ books;
selection of CDs, DVDs, newspapers & magazines;
free Internet access and printing, fax & photocopying;
community information, events & activities.

Of particular interest are the online resources which include a selection of very good (and expensive) databases in the following subject areas:

Business
British Standards Online
COBRA (Complete Business Reference Adviser)
Datamonitor
Euromonitor Passport
FAME (Financial Analysis Made Easy)
FunderFinder
Key Note
Kompass

Local History & General Interest
Ancestry
SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network)
Sir Thomas Lipton
Virtual Mitchell
Which?

News & Current Events
Credo Reference
Factiva NewsUK

Reference
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford Reference Online
Public Information Online

For further information about these online resources visit the 24 Hour Library section of the Glasgow Libraries website at:

www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries
(a link to this will be added to the CLIC section of the College website shortly).

October Week opening hours

Please note that during the October Week holiday the College Library will be open:
10.00 am - 4.00 pm from Monday 11 Oct. until Friday 15 Oct.

Lunchtime closure - Wed 29 September

Please note that the College Library will be closed from 12.00 - 13.15 pm on Wed. 29 September to allow staff to attend an important meeting.

Apologies for any inconvenience that this might cause.

September Weekend holiday

Please note that the CLIC will be closed from Friday 24 September to Monday 27 September inclusive due to the September Weekend holiday.

Early closure Monday 6 September 2010

Please note that the CLIC will close at 3.55 pm on Monday, 6 September to allow staff to attend an important college meeting. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

New Term Time Opening Hours

In line with changes to the opening hours of the College as a whole the ClIC now has new term-time opening hours which are:

Monday: 8.30 - 17.00
Tuesday: 8.30 - 20.00
Wednesday: 8.30 - 20.00
Thursday: 8.30 - 17.00
Friday: 10.00 - 16.30

Please note that the CLIC is no longer opening on Saturdays.

Opening hours for staff return

The opening hours of the CLIC from Monday 9 August - Saturday 21 August, when staff return from the summer break, will be as follows:

Monday - Thursday: 8.30am - 5.00pm
Friday: 9.00am - 4.30pm
Saturday: CLOSED

CLIC opening hours for final week of session

Please note for week beginning Monday, 21 June the College Library will open as follows:

Monday: 8.30 - 17.00
Tuesday: 8.30 - 17.00
Wednesday: CLOSED
Thursday: 8.30 - 17.00
Friday: 9.00 - 11.00
Saturday: CLOSED

The CLIC will be open throughout the Summer holidays from 10 am - 4 pm except for Fair Friday (16 July 2010) when we will close early at 2 pm and Fair Monday (19 July 2010) when we will be closed.

May Weekend Holiday

Please note that the CLIC will be CLOSED from Friday, 28 May - Monday, 31 May inclusive due to the May Weekend holiday.

Library closure

Please note that the CLIC will be CLOSED from 3.55 pm until 5.10 pm on Tuesday 1 June to allow staff to attend an important college meeting. We are sorry for any inconvenience that this might cause.

May Day holiday

Please note that the LITEhouse, including the CLIC, will be CLOSED all day on Monday, 3 May 2010 due to the May Day public holiday.

Easter Opening Hours

During the Easter holidays the CLIC (Library) will open as follows:

Fri. 2 April - Mon. 5 April: CLOSED

Tue. 6 April - Fri. 9 April: 10.00 am - 4.00 pm

Sat. 10 April: CLOSED

Mon. 12 April - Thu. 15 April: 10.00 am - 4.00 pm

Fri. 16 April: 12.00 am - 4.00 pm

Sat. 17 April: CLOSED

We will return to normal opening hours on Monday 19 April.

Essential network maintenance

Please note that essential network maintenance work will be carried out today between 5pm and 6pm. So there will be no Internet or network access during those times and so you should save all files adn log off by 5pm at the latest.

Philip Allan Updates magazines now online

For several years now we have subscribed to the print copies of several of the Philip Allan Update magazines which are aimed at supporting A-Level students in a wide range of subjects. Now all the issues in the current volumes of these magazines are available online at the following website:

magazinesonline.philipallan.co.uk

To log in click on the "Teacher" button and then enter the log in details which are available from CLIC staff.

Full issues of each magazine are available as digital magazines while other related support resources are available in Word, pdf and PowerPoint formats. The magazines to which we currently subscribe are: 20th Century History Review; Biological Sciences Review; Business Review; Chemistry Review; Economic Review; English Review; Geography Review; PE Review; Physics Review; Politics Review; Psychology Review; RS Review and Sociology Review. While these magazine are aimed primarily at A-Level students there is still a lot of useful and well-written material for students preparing for Higher and Advanced Higher examinations.

Hints and tips in using popular Microsoft software

We have produced a series of 4 simple guides to some of the most popular Microsoft software:

Excel 2007
Internet Explorer 8
PowerPoint 2007
Word 2007

Printed copies of these guides are available from the CLIC while you can download these guides from the CLIC guides section of our website at:

http://www.langside.ac.uk/CollegeInfo/CLIC/CLICGuides.asp

Staff Development Week closure

Please note that the CLIC and the entire LITEhouse building will be closed to students from Monday 15 February until Saturday 20 February inclusive due to the College's annual Staff Development Conference.

Ebrary Update

All of the e-books (approximately 3000) have now been catalogued, and so can be accessed directly via e-Library, our online catalogue. Here are a few of the latest additions:

Teaching multilevel classes in ESL / Bell, Jill

Social work in the British Isles / Payne, Malcolm

Mastering digital photography / Busch, David D

Teacher collaboration and talk in multilingual classrooms / Creese, Angela

A consumer's dictionary of cosmetic ingredients : complete information about the harmful and desirable ingredients found in cosmetics and cosmeceuticals / Winter, Ruth

Employment law for business students / Hardy, Stephen T.

Social work and social care practice / O'Connor, Ian

Adventure guide to Scotland / Li, Martin.

Winning strategies for classroom management / Cummings, Carol Bradford.

The A to Z of correct English / Burt, A. M.


If you fancy doing any e-reading at home, all you will need is your college network log-in. You can either go straight to Ebrary using the link in the Online Resources section of the college website (in the library section), or use the link provided in the online catalogue to the specific e-book you're interested in.