Library News: MAODE programme

Library Services is running the following online tutorials for OU students and staff in November:

Student introduction to Library Services: 15th November, 3pm

How to do a literature search: 19th November, 10am

How to find an ebook: 18th November, 4pm

How to find an ejournal: 12th November, 1pm

How to social bookmark: 6th November, 11:30am

How to use RefWorks: 2nd November, 10am; 28th November, 10am

Finding information in Business & Management: 24th November, 12:30pm

Finding information in Psychology: 10th November, 7pm

Please register for these online sessions by going to the Library Information Literacy Area of the VLE.  On this website you will also find the learning outcomes for these sessions, a link to training on the interface and you will be able to check if you have the right software to access Elluminate.

Library Services is running the following online tutorials for OU students and staff in October:

• Student introduction to Library Services: 3rd October, 10am; 10th October, 10am; 12th October, 12:30pm
• How to find an ebook: 27th October, 12pm 
• How to find an ejournal: 7th October, 10am
• How to set up ejournal alerts: 3rd October, 10am; 20th October, 1pm
• Introduction to bibliographic management: 30th October, 11:30am
• Masters in Education: literature searching: 9th October, 11am
• Finding information in Business & Management: 19th October, 12pm
• Finding information in Psychology: 23rd October, 3pm
  

Please register for these online sessions by going to the Library Information Literacy Area of the VLE.  On this website you will also find the learning outcomes for these sessions, a link to training on the interface and you will be able to check if you have the right software to access Elluminate.

Library Services is running the following online tutorials for OU students and staff in September: 

AL (tutor) introduction to Library Services: 14th September 2pm

How to use RefWorks: 17th September 2pm

Finding information in Psychology: 30th September 3pm

Please register for these online sessions by going to the Library Information Literacy Area.  On this website you will also find the learning outcomes for these sessions, a link to training on the interface and you will be able to check if you have the right software to access Elluminate Live!

Are you involved in creating course content and interested in drawing on existing video material?

The AVA project team is looking for staff to help trial and evaluate new video search technology at workshops on 11th and 14th September, 12-2pm, with lunch and refreshments provided.

This is part of an exciting new project – Access to Video Assets (AVA) – which aims to give access to the OU video archive of both course and non-course programmes, rushes and clips to reuse in new course material.

The project will be producing a user friendly search tool to enable OU staff to search and browse through previews of the existing video assets.

If you’re interested in taking part or would like to know more about AVA then contact Sue Allcock.

We are running the following online tutorials in May, June and July:

• Student Introduction to Library Services: many times and dates, including weekends and evenings
• AL (tutor) Introduction to Library Services: 15th June 1pm
• How to Find an eJournal: 15th May 11am; 9th July 10am
• How to Set Up eJournal Alerts: 29th June 4pm
• How to Social Bookmark: 7th July 12:30pm
• Introduction to Bibliographic Management: 24th July 10am 
• How to Use RefWorks: 30th July 1pm
• Finding Information in Business & Management: 2nd July 1pm
• Finding Information in Psychology: 11th June 3pm
• Library Session for Masters in Education: 23rd June 11:30am; 13th July 4:15pm

Please register for these sessions by going to the Library Information Literacy Area.  On this website you will also find the learning outcomes for these sessions, a link to training on the interface and you will be able to check if you have the right software to access Elluminate Live!.

How do you use information on the move?

You are invited to take part in a survey intended to establish how the majority of Open University students and staff access, or would like to access, information away from your desk or laptop. The survey questions are primarily about how you use your mobile phone, smartphone or PDA to look up, use or interact with information.

This survey is being conducted by Keren Mills, who is a member of staff at the Open University, but this research is being undertaken in partnership with Cambridge University as part of the Arcadia project. Staff and students at Cambridge University will be receiving the same survey.

You could win £30 in book vouchers or Amazon vouchers by entering the prize draw.  The survey will take 10 to 15 minutes to complete, and it will be available until 27 March 2009.

Library Services has a new Facebook page.  Why not join us and keep up-to-date with Library resources, share tips and ideas with other students and staff, and help us develop the right services for you. 

We’re also using Twitter - a service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: what are you doing?  So, if you’d like to know what the OU Library is doing, why don’t you ‘follow’ us on Twitter.

We are running the following online tutorials in February, March and April:

• Student Introduction to Library Services: 4th February 11am-12pm, 5th March 3-4pm and 3rd April 10-11am
• AL (tutor) Introduction to Library Services: 12th February 3-4pm
• How to Set Up eJournal Alerts: 17th February 10-11am
• How to Find an eJournal: 25th February 10:30-11:30am
• Finding Information in Languages: 13th March 3-4pm
• Finding Information in Business & Management: 21st April 10:30-11:30am 
• How to Social Bookmark: 23rd March 2-3pm

Please register for these sessions by going to the Library Information Literacy Area of the VLE.  On this website you will also find the learning outcomes for these sessions, a link to training on the interface and you will be able to check if you have the right software to access Elluminate Live!.

As part of our Library Seminars programme, we are very pleased to announce a presentation by Paola Marchionni on “New Online Resources from the JISC Digitisation Programme“.  This will be held in the Library, Seminar Room 2, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, at 12:00 to 13:00 on Wednesday 4th February 2009.

More information is available on the Library Seminars page.  Everyone is very welcome to attend but spaces are limited so please indicate your interest as soon as possible to ensure your place. 

ticTOCs is a JISC service to provide researchers with access to the most recent tables of contents (TOCs) of over 11,000 scholarly journals.  ticTOCs also makes it easy to import article citations into RefWorks and subscribe to TOCs using RSS feeds.

If you register you can save your favourite titles to view on the site.