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In this issue
Poems Aloud!
More Books
SafePod and 24 more spaces: Changes to Level 2
Professor Susan Sellers lectures on Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
Research@StAndrews:FullText passes 5000 items
Welcoming our new Assistant Director
Building a new collection of books by Armenian classical authors
Open Access updates for researchers
King James Library refurbishment
Poems Aloud! 2015
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The University Library was proud to be part of the StAnza Poetry festival again this
year with our Poems Aloud! recitation competition. 11 University of St Andrews
students competed on Friday 6th March, performing their chosen, memorised poem in
front of a panel of judges. Judges included: Helen Mort (poet), Colin Will (poet) and Alice
Crawford (librarian).
The winner of the £75 prize was Megan McFadyen-Mungall who recited ‘Too much time
looking up’ by Lacey Roop.
Held in the Main University Library, the event was free and open to all; the competitors
performed to a full house!
University Librarian and Director of Library Services, John MacColl commented:
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We feel that Poems Aloud! stands out in the StAnza programme, with the
focus on the poem as performance rather than on the author as performer.
Learning poems by heart is not nearly as common as it used to be, and yet
a learned poem is an important possession that can remain with an
individual for life. We hope that by holding Poems Aloud! in the Library we
can encourage the learning of poetry by heart, and also its delivery in ways
that convey why their poem choices are important to our student
performers.
We hope to host Poems Aloud! again next year.
Lots MoreBooks!
Since the beginning of this semester we have bought 402 books from suggestions
made through our [email protected] service. That's 45 books a week!
We've ordered books for a wide range of subjects from Surviving field research : working
in violent and difficult situations to The midwives of seventeenth-century London.
Remember to let us know if you think we should buy more copies of textbooks for your
courses or brand new titles! Just email [email protected] and tell us why
you want a book - if is it for coursework or if you'd like an extra copy of a text. Please
also tell us what module the textbook is for and send us the title, author and edition or
year of publication and we'll get back to you as soon as we can!
SafePod and 24 more spaces: Changes to Level 2
You might have noticed some extra space has been cleared on Level 2, and the
appearance of a new "pod". In the next few weeks we will be adding new tables to
create 24 new study spaces. We have also installed a new "SafePod" which looks a little
like a photo booth but is a secure, lockable area that allows researchers across the UK
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to access controlled data. We are the first university to host one of these systems which
is funded by the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council).
SafePod in Library
Here is more information about the SafePod from the leaflet available in front of the pod:
The University of St Andrews is currently trialling an ESRC SafePod, which
is an exciting innovation for remote secure data access to sensitive data
such as those provided via the Administrative Data Research Network
(ADRN).
The main advantages of using a SafePod as a secure data access facility is
that it enables access to data under very highly controlled conditions and
does not require the conversion of an existing room or building within an
institution. No data is held in the Pod and access to data is via a thin client
over a separate secure network.
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If successful, this innovation once rolled out to multiple institutions
nationwide, will ensure that researchers with limited access to affordable
and dedicated safe access facilities, will be able to undertake research with
sensitive data.
If you have any questions or would like to know more about the SafePod, please contact
Darren Lightfoot on 01334 463901 or email [email protected].
Professor Susan Sellers lectures on Virginia Woolf
and Vanessa Bell
Friends of the Library Spring Lecture, Thursday, April 9, Arts Lecture Theatre,
5.15pm. Professor Susan Sellers will deliver a lecture entitled, 'From Page to Stage:
Writing the Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell'. Starting with a discussion of her
work as editor of the Cambridge University Press edition of the writings of Virginia Woolf,
she will talk about the writing of her own novel Vanessa and Virginia, published in 2008,
and will describe the process of adapting it for its successful international stage tour in
2009.
For more details, please see the University events page.
- Alice Crawford
Digital Humanities Research Librarian
Research@StAndrews:FullText passes 5000 items
The 5000th item in Research@StAndrews:FullText was a PhD thesis A
phenomenological-enactive theory of the minimal self by Brett Welch who receives a
copy of the new book Open Access and the Humanities by Martin Paul Eve to mark
the occasion. There were several articles deposited around the same time that we
highlighted in a blog post related to REF deposits, publisher embargoes and Gold Open
Access; readers might be intrigued by the Institutional Repository Usage Statistics
quoted in the same post.
If you are a researcher and have any Open Access stories and thoughts you would like
to share please get in touch using our form.
- Mike Bryce
Repository Support Officer
Welcoming our new Assistant Director
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We are very happy to announce the appointment of Anna Clements to the post of
Assistant Director (Digital Research) in the University Library. This post signals the
development of a new Digital Research Division within the Library. This division will bring
together Open Access & Research Publications Support, Research Data Management,
Digital Humanities and some elements of Research Computing.
Building a new collection of books by Armenian
classical authors
The Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of the first fifteen volumes of
the series, ‘Armenian classical authors’, (‘Մատենագիրք Հայոց’). This is a jointly
published series of the Armenian Library of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the
Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia, and aims to gather together hundreds of Armenian
texts from over 100 classical authors since the 5th century. It is an unparalleled collection
of texts from different disciplines: philosophy, history, linguistics, ancient literature and
folklore studies, the majority of which have never been published before.
The title was ordered by Dr Tim Greenwood in the School of History, who met with staff
in the Acquisitions and Cataloguing departments of the Library to offer advice about this
unique purchase. In order to acquire this title, staff in the Acquisitions department have
built up a relationship with a bookseller in Lebanon, who they will continue to work with
as future volumes of the series are published. Staff in the Cataloguing department also
had their horizons broadened as they got to grips with the Armenian script, the different
fonts used to represent it, and the different schema for transliterating it into the Roman
alphabet.
The series is ongoing, and has been estimated to run to approximately 100 volumes in
total. It can be found at PK8531.M2.
- David Collins
Library Assistant (Cataloguing)
Open Access updates for researchers
The Library continues to provide advice and support for our researchers to help
make their publications Open Access (OA). We now produce a monthly update which
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we send to all Schools, keeping researchers informed about new OA policies, publisher
deals, funding and other aspects of a fast-changing scholarly environment. If you haven’t
seen OA Updates let us know and we will make sure we add your details to our list.
- Mike Bryce
Repository Support Officer
King James Library refurbishment
This historic Library, housed within St Mary's College Library, is undergoing
refurbishment. The carpet has been replaced and we are currently waiting for new
furniture to be installed which is in keeping with this, our first University Library. The new
furniture will increase the study seat provision by 12 spaces and will ensure that all study
desks in the King James Library have power points. As there has been a delay in the
delivery of our selected desks and chairs, we have provided temporary furniture for staff
and students to use until the official furniture can be delivered. The King James and St
Mary's College Libraries are both open as usual.
Subscribe to our RSS feeds for all new acquisitions: books, DVDs, etc and new
items by subject
read the Library Blog | follow on Twitter | like on Facebook
Questions: Please email [email protected]
Web: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/
Address: University of St Andrews Library, North Street, St Andrews, KY16 9TR, Scotland
Tel: +44 (0)1334 462331/2
Images: University of St Andrews, Lightbox Creative (Poems Aloud images).
The University of St Andrews is not responsible for the content of external websites accessed via links in
this e-newsletter.
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University Library newsletter - information and new developments from your
Library.
Is this email not displaying correctly?
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April 2015
You can also view this newsletter online.
In this issue
Poems Aloud!
More Books
SafePod and 24 more spaces: Changes to Level 2
Professor Susan Sellers lectures on Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
Research@StAndrews:FullText passes 5000 items
Welcoming our new Assistant Director
Building a new collection of books by Armenian classical authors
Open Access updates for researchers
King James Library refurbishment
Poems Aloud! 2015
file:///Y|/Documents/Library%20Newsletter/images%20for%20newsletter/March2015/Library%20Newsletter%20April%202015.html[08/04/2015 09:38:55]
Read all about it: Library newsletter
The University Library was proud to be part of the StAnza Poetry festival again this
year with our Poems Aloud! recitation competition. 11 University of St Andrews
students competed on Friday 6th March, performing their chosen, memorised poem in
front of a panel of judges. Judges included: Helen Mort (poet), Colin Will (poet) and Alice
Crawford (librarian).
The winner of the £75 prize was Megan McFadyen-Mungall who recited ‘Too much time
looking up’ by Lacey Roop.
Held in the Main University Library, the event was free and open to all; the competitors
performed to a full house!
University Librarian and Director of Library Services, John MacColl commented:
file:///Y|/Documents/Library%20Newsletter/images%20for%20newsletter/March2015/Library%20Newsletter%20April%202015.html[08/04/2015 09:38:55]
Read all about it: Library newsletter
We feel that Poems Aloud! stands out in the StAnza programme, with the
focus on the poem as performance rather than on the author as performer.
Learning poems by heart is not nearly as common as it used to be, and yet
a learned poem is an important possession that can remain with an
individual for life. We hope that by holding Poems Aloud! in the Library we
can encourage the learning of poetry by heart, and also its delivery in ways
that convey why their poem choices are important to our student
performers.
We hope to host Poems Aloud! again next year.
Lots MoreBooks!
Since the beginning of this semester we have bought 402 books from suggestions
made through our [email protected] service. That's 45 books a week!
We've ordered books for a wide range of subjects from Surviving field research : working
in violent and difficult situations to The midwives of seventeenth-century London.
Remember to let us know if you think we should buy more copies of textbooks for your
courses or brand new titles! Just email [email protected] and tell us why
you want a book - if is it for coursework or if you'd like an extra copy of a text. Please
also tell us what module the textbook is for and send us the title, author and edition or
year of publication and we'll get back to you as soon as we can!
SafePod and 24 more spaces: Changes to Level 2
You might have noticed some extra space has been cleared on Level 2, and the
appearance of a new "pod". In the next few weeks we will be adding new tables to
create 24 new study spaces. We have also installed a new "SafePod" which looks a little
like a photo booth but is a secure, lockable area that allows researchers across the UK
file:///Y|/Documents/Library%20Newsletter/images%20for%20newsletter/March2015/Library%20Newsletter%20April%202015.html[08/04/2015 09:38:55]
Read all about it: Library newsletter
to access controlled data. We are the first university to host one of these systems which
is funded by the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council).
SafePod in Library
Here is more information about the SafePod from the leaflet available in front of the pod:
The University of St Andrews is currently trialling an ESRC SafePod, which
is an exciting innovation for remote secure data access to sensitive data
such as those provided via the Administrative Data Research Network
(ADRN).
The main advantages of using a SafePod as a secure data access facility is
that it enables access to data under very highly controlled conditions and
does not require the conversion of an existing room or building within an
institution. No data is held in the Pod and access to data is via a thin client
over a separate secure network.
file:///Y|/Documents/Library%20Newsletter/images%20for%20newsletter/March2015/Library%20Newsletter%20April%202015.html[08/04/2015 09:38:55]
Read all about it: Library newsletter
If successful, this innovation once rolled out to multiple institutions
nationwide, will ensure that researchers with limited access to affordable
and dedicated safe access facilities, will be able to undertake research with
sensitive data.
If you have any questions or would like to know more about the SafePod, please contact
Darren Lightfoot on 01334 463901 or email [email protected].
Professor Susan Sellers lectures on Virginia Woolf
and Vanessa Bell
Friends of the Library Spring Lecture, Thursday, April 9, Arts Lecture Theatre,
5.15pm. Professor Susan Sellers will deliver a lecture entitled, 'From Page to Stage:
Writing the Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell'. Starting with a discussion of her
work as editor of the Cambridge University Press edition of the writings of Virginia Woolf,
she will talk about the writing of her own novel Vanessa and Virginia, published in 2008,
and will describe the process of adapting it for its successful international stage tour in
2009.
For more details, please see the University events page.
- Alice Crawford
Digital Humanities Research Librarian
Research@StAndrews:FullText passes 5000 items
The 5000th item in Research@StAndrews:FullText was a PhD thesis A
phenomenological-enactive theory of the minimal self by Brett Welch who receives a
copy of the new book Open Access and the Humanities by Martin Paul Eve to mark
the occasion. There were several articles deposited around the same time that we
highlighted in a blog post related to REF deposits, publisher embargoes and Gold Open
Access; readers might be intrigued by the Institutional Repository Usage Statistics
quoted in the same post.
If you are a researcher and have any Open Access stories and thoughts you would like
to share please get in touch using our form.
- Mike Bryce
Repository Support Officer
Welcoming our new Assistant Director
file:///Y|/Documents/Library%20Newsletter/images%20for%20newsletter/March2015/Library%20Newsletter%20April%202015.html[08/04/2015 09:38:55]
Read all about it: Library newsletter
We are very happy to announce the appointment of Anna Clements to the post of
Assistant Director (Digital Research) in the University Library. This post signals the
development of a new Digital Research Division within the Library. This division will bring
together Open Access & Research Publications Support, Research Data Management,
Digital Humanities and some elements of Research Computing.
Building a new collection of books by Armenian
classical authors
The Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of the first fifteen volumes of
the series, ‘Armenian classical authors’, (‘Մատենագիրք Հայոց’). This is a jointly
published series of the Armenian Library of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the
Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia, and aims to gather together hundreds of Armenian
texts from over 100 classical authors since the 5th century. It is an unparalleled collection
of texts from different disciplines: philosophy, history, linguistics, ancient literature and
folklore studies, the majority of which have never been published before.
The title was ordered by Dr Tim Greenwood in the School of History, who met with staff
in the Acquisitions and Cataloguing departments of the Library to offer advice about this
unique purchase. In order to acquire this title, staff in the Acquisitions department have
built up a relationship with a bookseller in Lebanon, who they will continue to work with
as future volumes of the series are published. Staff in the Cataloguing department also
had their horizons broadened as they got to grips with the Armenian script, the different
fonts used to represent it, and the different schema for transliterating it into the Roman
alphabet.
The series is ongoing, and has been estimated to run to approximately 100 volumes in
total. It can be found at PK8531.M2.
- David Collins
Library Assistant (Cataloguing)
Open Access updates for researchers
The Library continues to provide advice and support for our researchers to help
make their publications Open Access (OA). We now produce a monthly update which
file:///Y|/Documents/Library%20Newsletter/images%20for%20newsletter/March2015/Library%20Newsletter%20April%202015.html[08/04/2015 09:38:55]
Read all about it: Library newsletter
we send to all Schools, keeping researchers informed about new OA policies, publisher
deals, funding and other aspects of a fast-changing scholarly environment. If you haven’t
seen OA Updates let us know and we will make sure we add your details to our list.
- Mike Bryce
Repository Support Officer
King James Library refurbishment
This historic Library, housed within St Mary's College Library, is undergoing
refurbishment. The carpet has been replaced and we are currently waiting for new
furniture to be installed which is in keeping with this, our first University Library. The new
furniture will increase the study seat provision by 12 spaces and will ensure that all study
desks in the King James Library have power points. As there has been a delay in the
delivery of our selected desks and chairs, we have provided temporary furniture for staff
and students to use until the official furniture can be delivered. The King James and St
Mary's College Libraries are both open as usual.
Subscribe to our RSS feeds for all new acquisitions: books, DVDs, etc and new
items by subject
read the Library Blog | follow on Twitter | like on Facebook
Questions: Please email [email protected]
Web: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/
Address: University of St Andrews Library, North Street, St Andrews, KY16 9TR, Scotland
Tel: +44 (0)1334 462331/2
Images: University of St Andrews, Lightbox Creative (Poems Aloud images).
The University of St Andrews is not responsible for the content of external websites accessed via links in
this e-newsletter.
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