Library News: MAODE programme

Due to adverse weather conditions the Library building in Milton Keynes will be closed on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 January.

The building will re-open as normal on Monday 11 January at 08.30am

The Library Helpdesk will operate normal weekend hours and can be contacted using a number of methods including email and web form. For more information about the helpdesk service please visit the Library Services help and support web pages.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the building closure.

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

Finding information in Business & Management: Fri 8th, 10:45am

Student introduction to Library Services: Tues 12th, 12 pm

How to use RefWorks: Thurs 14th, 10am

How to social bookmark: Mon 18th, 1pm

How to find an ejournal: Thurs 21st, 3pm

How to find an eBook: Weds 27th, 4pm

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.

We need your help to identify features you would like to see in an Open University video archive indexing system.

Library Services, who are leading the Access to Video Archives (AVA) project, are investigating ways to deliver a searchable index of video material held in our archives.

The project aims to provide a model to encourage searching, reuse and preservation of valuable OU video resources.

Although the key audience is staff involved in course production, it will also be of interest to the wider OU community wishing to identify and (subject to rights clearance) reuse video clips of past events in the OU’s history.

The AVA survey below (which closes Friday 11 December) should only take you five minutes to complete and the feedback will help to provide important information on your requirements for such a system, ensuring it meets your needs.

Access this short questionnaire

If you are interested in learning more about the project, visit the AVA website or contact Sue Allcock.

As part of our Open University Library Seminars programme, we are very pleased to announce a presentation by Dr Hazel Woodward of Cranfield University Library, entitled The final findings of the JISC national e-books observatory project, followed by a brief presentation by Liz Mallett of the Open University Library on the findings of a joint ebook reader pilot study with Cranfield.

This will be held in the Library, Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, at 12:30 to 13:30 on Thursday 17th December 2009.

Everyone is very welcome to attend but spaces are limited so please indicate your interest as soon as possible to ensure your place.  Please contact Library-Promotions@open.ac.uk  for bookings.

The JISC national e-books observatory project has been about exploring impacts, observing behaviours and developing new models to stimulate the e-books market, and to do all this in a managed environment. The aims of the project were:

* To licence a collection of e-books that are highly relevant to UK HE course taught students in four discipline areas: Business and Management Studies, Engineering, Medicine (not mental health or nursing) and Media Studies.

* To evaluate the use of the course text e-books though deep log analysis and analyse the impact of the free at the point of use course text e-books upon publisher, aggregator and library processes

* To transfer knowledge acquired in the project to publishers, aggregators and libraries to help stimulate a course text e-books market that has appropriate business and licensing models

The Ebook reader pilot study was a short joint project between the Open University and Cranfield University libraries. A small group of students from each institution was given an ebook reader each to use for 3 months, and their thoughts on them recorded. Liz will give an overview of the findings and what they mean for the library service.

The Document Delivery service is now offering the option to receive journal articles by Secure Electronic Delivery (SED).

To make a request, select the Electronic copy option from the library catalogue.

You will still need to provide a copyright declaration form.  We only get 14 days to download once the item has been received by the Document Delivery team,  so a delay in receiving the copyright declaration form will decrease the time you have  to download the article.

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!.