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May 2013
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Book collection to celebrate St Andrews town & gown
We have a new collection shelved next to the DVDs on Level 2 of the Main Library called the Red Gown Collection. The core of the collection has been donated by Freddie fforde, President of the Students Association, with the intention of making books about the University and the town more easily accessible to students. These books will be Reference Only, and their classmark will have the prefix RED. You can find these books in SAULCAT, the Library catalogue. We have every hope that the collection will continue to grow, primarily through donations. Our definitive archival collection of books about St Andrews remains the St Andrews Collection, shelved in Special Collections. The Red Gown Collection is meant to be a more accessible collection to catch the interest of students and other users of the Main Library.
-Jennifer Evetts Collections Manager
Books ain't what - or where - they used to be …
If you have a Kindle or other ebook reader you will be well aware that the concept of 'a book' is no longer as simple as it used to be. Not surprisingly, libraries are acutely challenged by this. In recent years, the profile of our Library's book holdings has been changing quite dramatically. The arrival of ebooks has meant that we are devoting an ever-increasing share of our materials budget to books in electronic format. We are not yet able to allow our users to borrow Kindle editions of our books (this is a business model issue within the industry, rather than library conservatism), but we do have plenty of digitised and 'born digital' books available for use on PCs and other devices - as the article on our current ebook trial (below) illustrates.
Nevertheless, we are still buying printed books in large quantities - though the space available for them on our open shelves is not sufficient. The simple fact is that our Main Library has for some time been too small for our General Collections bookstock - and this has been particularly obvious as we have sought to turn over more of the available space to users over the past two years.
The figures below show an analysis of our bookstock carried out in February 2013. Over the next 12-18 months we expect to see the figure for ebooks increase as more deals become available, and the figure for books in store also increase, since we can't expand in the open stacks.
Books on open shelves (including Short Loan) Books in store Ebooks (records in Library Catalogue) Eighteenth Century Collections Online (not in Library Catalogue) British Library Nineteenth Century e-books (not in Library Catalogue) Special Collections books in Library Catalogue Special Collections rare books not yet in Library Catalogue Total books
333,742 28% 217,044 18% 181,146 15% 180,000 15% 65,000 6%
65,000 5% 150,000 13% 1,191,932 100%
A library's record of its books is of course its catalogue. Libraries always struggle to keep their catalogues up-to-date, and cataloguing backlogs are common (we have a particular cataloguing backlog problem with the rare books in our Special Collections, though we are now tackling this with some vigour). But with so much of our stock in storage, we depend on the catalogue to give our users the full picture of what books we have, so that anything not on the shelf can be recalled from store. This means it is very important for users to check the catalogue for the book they want, and not to assume that because it is not where they'd expect it to be on the shelf that we don't have it!
On the ebook front, however, the new twist on this problem is that some ebook collections cannot yet provide us with records that we can import into our catalogue. For early ebooks therefore, it is advisable to check the Library >Resources >Electronic resources >E-books section of our website. For General Collections we are satisfied that the catalogue is pretty accurate. Users of Special Collections, unfortunately, are disadvantaged by cataloguing gaps both for print and for digital books. But this problem is far from unique to St Andrews - and we are working as hard as we can to keep the Library Catalogue as the authority source on our book holdings - both physical and virtual.
-John MacColl University Librarian
Anne Wilcox (Deputy Head of Cataloguing) wins international library competition
We’re thrilled that Anne has been selected as the 2013 UK recipient of the joint UKSG/NASIG John Merriman Award. Her prize is an all-expenses-paid trip to the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) conference in Buffalo, New York in June. Her prize-winning entry, on the challenges of dealing with journal packages, while referencing
Cartman from South Park, was “very much enjoyed” by the judges. In addition to attending the conference, she will contribute to an article on the NASIG conference for the UKSG journal, Insights.
-Aileen Cook Head of Acquisitions
More books?
If the Library doesn't have the books or resources you need, please get in touch and let us know!
Staff, you can contact your Liaison Librarian who will help you purchase resources or set you up with the online ordering tool. Students, please send us an email with the information about the book to [email protected].
-Academic Liaison Team
Photographic Books Collection new recruit
St Andrews, History of Photography PhD graduate Liz Shannon will be spending the next two and half months augmenting the records of our Photographic Books Collection. Liz's work will focus on providing an art historical context for our photographic books in order to increase use, awareness, and better searchability for specialist
researchers interested in this exciting hybrid medium. Working within the Photo Team's KE Emu collections management system, once these new records are completed, the data will be migrated across to our existing SAULCAT records for the collection, and permanent cross references for each book will be added on both systems in order to encourage exploration and discovery.
-Marc Boulay Photographic Archivist
Polling for opinion - Library 24/7 returns!
Library 24/7 will return from 10am on Saturday 4th May until 2am Friday 17th May. Recently we invited you to vote on when or even if you wanted to see a return of Library opening 24/7. As we would only be able to open 24/7 for 2 weeks during the exam period, we gave you the following options to choose from:
Revision fortnight (Sat 27th April - Fri 10th May) Second week of revision & first week of exams (Sat 4th - Fri 17th May)
Both exam weeks (Sat 11th - Fri 24th May) No 24/7 but Library open 8am - 2am 7 days a week for all 4 weeks
By a clear margin, people wanted to see a return of Library 24/7 and wanted this opening to be available on the second week of revision & first week of exams (Sat 4th - Fri 17th May).
We are very happy to be able to offer this service and thank the different Library and Estates staff for their support.
-Elizabeth Andrews Academic Liaison Officer (Marketing & Communications)
Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Library has recently received another deposit of over 100 books for the Russell Cawthorn Collection. They include a number of contemporary publications including In Ruhleben Camp, issues nos. 1-9, Christmas and the Ruhleben By Election from 1915, and an Illustrated Michelin Guide to the Battlefields from 1919.
If you have any plans for marking the anniversary of WWI the Library would be very interested to hear from you. Please email us: [email protected].
-Jennifer Evetts Collections Manager
What online reading lists can do for you
Online reading lists provide a direct route into module reading. Students can click links to see the availability of books on SAULCAT or to access the full-text of online content. The above short video guide (this video has no sound) will give you an indication of what they can offer, how to use them, and where you can find them.
-Colin Bovaird Academic Liaison Officer
Resources
eBook trial
We are continuing to run trial access to almost 30,000 ebooks! Read more about it on our @theLibrary blog.
You'll be able to access all these full-text ebooks for a short preview (5 mins). You can tell which item is a trial ebook as the SAULCAT record will include this info: "Connect to e-book - you can preview the whole e-book for a short time; the most popular titles may be purchased during this trial” We can gather information about what titles you access and use this to support purchases of the popular ebooks you identify. We have allocated funds to buy these books so 'normal' book buying will not be affected by the trial. The end result of our partnership with you should be a highly focused collection of well-used, permanent-access e-books.
-Jean Young Electronic Resources Librarian
Resource of the month!
This month we've chosen BoB or Box of Broadcasts. Here is a description of the service from the database: "BoB is an off-air recording and media archive service. BoB is available to staff and students of member institutions of the British Universities Film & Video Council that hold an ERA+ license. This TV scheduling service allows you to record TV and radio programmes that are scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of recorded channels" (http://www.bobnational.net/content.php?view=what). -Academic Liaison Team
OA resources
We are pleased to announce that the open access journal Ethnographic Encounters, hosted by the University of St Andrews Library Journal Hosting Service, has released its latest issue. Now in its third volume, this journal has been developed by a team of enthusiastic and talented student Editors under the leadership of Dr Craig Lind.
Ethnographic Encounters is a platform for the work of the University of St Andrews undergraduate Social Anthropology students. The e-journal presents a valuable resource for future students to draw on the experience and insights of their predecessors, and offers a means for Social Anthropology students throughout the world to engage with their peers in St Andrews.
-Jackie Proven Repository Support Officer
Selection of new books
Early modern things : objects and their histories, 1500-1800 / edited by Paula Findlen (2013). The exemplary museum : art and academia / Corrine Glesne (2013). Chemical education / editors, Savita Ladage, S.D. Samant (2012). How to read a Latin poem : if you can't read Latin yet / William Fitzgerald (2013) Domesticity and consumer culture in Iran : interior revolutions of the modern era / Pamela Karimi (2013). 'Your secret language' : classics in the British colonies of West Africa / Barbara Goff (2013). Something like happy / by John Burnside (2013). Managing cultural landscapes / edited by Ken Taylor and Jane L. Lennon (2012).
The Auschwitz volunteer : beyond bravery / by Witold Pilecki ; translated by Jarek Garlinski (2012). Hybrid forms of peace : from everyday agency to post-liberalism / edited by Oliver P. Richmond, Audra Mitchell (2012). Madness : a very short introduction / Andrew Scull (2011). Absolución / Luis Landero (2012). Louie Louie : the history and mythology of the world's most famous rock 'n' roll song ... / Dave Marsh (2004).
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Questions: Please email [email protected] Address:University of St Andrews Library, North Street, St Andrews KY16 9TR, Scotland Tel: +44 (0)1334 462283 Images: University of St Andrews, Elizabeth Andrews, Daryl Green, iStockphoto, www.morguefile.com, and Vicki Cormie. 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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May 2013
You can also view this newsletter online.
Book collection to celebrate St Andrews town & gown
We have a new collection shelved next to the DVDs on Level 2 of the Main Library called the Red Gown Collection. The core of the collection has been donated by Freddie fforde, President of the Students Association, with the intention of making books about the University and the town more easily accessible to students. These books will be Reference Only, and their classmark will have the prefix RED. You can find these books in SAULCAT, the Library catalogue. We have every hope that the collection will continue to grow, primarily through donations. Our definitive archival collection of books about St Andrews remains the St Andrews Collection, shelved in Special Collections. The Red Gown Collection is meant to be a more accessible collection to catch the interest of students and other users of the Main Library.
-Jennifer Evetts Collections Manager
Books ain't what - or where - they used to be …
If you have a Kindle or other ebook reader you will be well aware that the concept of 'a book' is no longer as simple as it used to be. Not surprisingly, libraries are acutely challenged by this. In recent years, the profile of our Library's book holdings has been changing quite dramatically. The arrival of ebooks has meant that we are devoting an ever-increasing share of our materials budget to books in electronic format. We are not yet able to allow our users to borrow Kindle editions of our books (this is a business model issue within the industry, rather than library conservatism), but we do have plenty of digitised and 'born digital' books available for use on PCs and other devices - as the article on our current ebook trial (below) illustrates.
Nevertheless, we are still buying printed books in large quantities - though the space available for them on our open shelves is not sufficient. The simple fact is that our Main Library has for some time been too small for our General Collections bookstock - and this has been particularly obvious as we have sought to turn over more of the available space to users over the past two years.
The figures below show an analysis of our bookstock carried out in February 2013. Over the next 12-18 months we expect to see the figure for ebooks increase as more deals become available, and the figure for books in store also increase, since we can't expand in the open stacks.
Books on open shelves (including Short Loan) Books in store Ebooks (records in Library Catalogue) Eighteenth Century Collections Online (not in Library Catalogue) British Library Nineteenth Century e-books (not in Library Catalogue) Special Collections books in Library Catalogue Special Collections rare books not yet in Library Catalogue Total books
333,742 28% 217,044 18% 181,146 15% 180,000 15% 65,000 6%
65,000 5% 150,000 13% 1,191,932 100%
A library's record of its books is of course its catalogue. Libraries always struggle to keep their catalogues up-to-date, and cataloguing backlogs are common (we have a particular cataloguing backlog problem with the rare books in our Special Collections, though we are now tackling this with some vigour). But with so much of our stock in storage, we depend on the catalogue to give our users the full picture of what books we have, so that anything not on the shelf can be recalled from store. This means it is very important for users to check the catalogue for the book they want, and not to assume that because it is not where they'd expect it to be on the shelf that we don't have it!
On the ebook front, however, the new twist on this problem is that some ebook collections cannot yet provide us with records that we can import into our catalogue. For early ebooks therefore, it is advisable to check the Library >Resources >Electronic resources >E-books section of our website. For General Collections we are satisfied that the catalogue is pretty accurate. Users of Special Collections, unfortunately, are disadvantaged by cataloguing gaps both for print and for digital books. But this problem is far from unique to St Andrews - and we are working as hard as we can to keep the Library Catalogue as the authority source on our book holdings - both physical and virtual.
-John MacColl University Librarian
Anne Wilcox (Deputy Head of Cataloguing) wins international library competition
We’re thrilled that Anne has been selected as the 2013 UK recipient of the joint UKSG/NASIG John Merriman Award. Her prize is an all-expenses-paid trip to the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) conference in Buffalo, New York in June. Her prize-winning entry, on the challenges of dealing with journal packages, while referencing
Cartman from South Park, was “very much enjoyed” by the judges. In addition to attending the conference, she will contribute to an article on the NASIG conference for the UKSG journal, Insights.
-Aileen Cook Head of Acquisitions
More books?
If the Library doesn't have the books or resources you need, please get in touch and let us know!
Staff, you can contact your Liaison Librarian who will help you purchase resources or set you up with the online ordering tool. Students, please send us an email with the information about the book to [email protected].
-Academic Liaison Team
Photographic Books Collection new recruit
St Andrews, History of Photography PhD graduate Liz Shannon will be spending the next two and half months augmenting the records of our Photographic Books Collection. Liz's work will focus on providing an art historical context for our photographic books in order to increase use, awareness, and better searchability for specialist
researchers interested in this exciting hybrid medium. Working within the Photo Team's KE Emu collections management system, once these new records are completed, the data will be migrated across to our existing SAULCAT records for the collection, and permanent cross references for each book will be added on both systems in order to encourage exploration and discovery.
-Marc Boulay Photographic Archivist
Polling for opinion - Library 24/7 returns!
Library 24/7 will return from 10am on Saturday 4th May until 2am Friday 17th May. Recently we invited you to vote on when or even if you wanted to see a return of Library opening 24/7. As we would only be able to open 24/7 for 2 weeks during the exam period, we gave you the following options to choose from:
Revision fortnight (Sat 27th April - Fri 10th May) Second week of revision & first week of exams (Sat 4th - Fri 17th May)
Both exam weeks (Sat 11th - Fri 24th May) No 24/7 but Library open 8am - 2am 7 days a week for all 4 weeks
By a clear margin, people wanted to see a return of Library 24/7 and wanted this opening to be available on the second week of revision & first week of exams (Sat 4th - Fri 17th May).
We are very happy to be able to offer this service and thank the different Library and Estates staff for their support.
-Elizabeth Andrews Academic Liaison Officer (Marketing & Communications)
Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Library has recently received another deposit of over 100 books for the Russell Cawthorn Collection. They include a number of contemporary publications including In Ruhleben Camp, issues nos. 1-9, Christmas and the Ruhleben By Election from 1915, and an Illustrated Michelin Guide to the Battlefields from 1919.
If you have any plans for marking the anniversary of WWI the Library would be very interested to hear from you. Please email us: [email protected].
-Jennifer Evetts Collections Manager
What online reading lists can do for you
Online reading lists provide a direct route into module reading. Students can click links to see the availability of books on SAULCAT or to access the full-text of online content. The above short video guide (this video has no sound) will give you an indication of what they can offer, how to use them, and where you can find them.
-Colin Bovaird Academic Liaison Officer
Resources
eBook trial
We are continuing to run trial access to almost 30,000 ebooks! Read more about it on our @theLibrary blog.
You'll be able to access all these full-text ebooks for a short preview (5 mins). You can tell which item is a trial ebook as the SAULCAT record will include this info: "Connect to e-book - you can preview the whole e-book for a short time; the most popular titles may be purchased during this trial” We can gather information about what titles you access and use this to support purchases of the popular ebooks you identify. We have allocated funds to buy these books so 'normal' book buying will not be affected by the trial. The end result of our partnership with you should be a highly focused collection of well-used, permanent-access e-books.
-Jean Young Electronic Resources Librarian
Resource of the month!
This month we've chosen BoB or Box of Broadcasts. Here is a description of the service from the database: "BoB is an off-air recording and media archive service. BoB is available to staff and students of member institutions of the British Universities Film & Video Council that hold an ERA+ license. This TV scheduling service allows you to record TV and radio programmes that are scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of recorded channels" (http://www.bobnational.net/content.php?view=what). -Academic Liaison Team
OA resources
We are pleased to announce that the open access journal Ethnographic Encounters, hosted by the University of St Andrews Library Journal Hosting Service, has released its latest issue. Now in its third volume, this journal has been developed by a team of enthusiastic and talented student Editors under the leadership of Dr Craig Lind.
Ethnographic Encounters is a platform for the work of the University of St Andrews undergraduate Social Anthropology students. The e-journal presents a valuable resource for future students to draw on the experience and insights of their predecessors, and offers a means for Social Anthropology students throughout the world to engage with their peers in St Andrews.
-Jackie Proven Repository Support Officer
Selection of new books
Early modern things : objects and their histories, 1500-1800 / edited by Paula Findlen (2013). The exemplary museum : art and academia / Corrine Glesne (2013). Chemical education / editors, Savita Ladage, S.D. Samant (2012). How to read a Latin poem : if you can't read Latin yet / William Fitzgerald (2013) Domesticity and consumer culture in Iran : interior revolutions of the modern era / Pamela Karimi (2013). 'Your secret language' : classics in the British colonies of West Africa / Barbara Goff (2013). Something like happy / by John Burnside (2013). Managing cultural landscapes / edited by Ken Taylor and Jane L. Lennon (2012).
The Auschwitz volunteer : beyond bravery / by Witold Pilecki ; translated by Jarek Garlinski (2012). Hybrid forms of peace : from everyday agency to post-liberalism / edited by Oliver P. Richmond, Audra Mitchell (2012). Madness : a very short introduction / Andrew Scull (2011). Absolución / Luis Landero (2012). Louie Louie : the history and mythology of the world's most famous rock 'n' roll song ... / Dave Marsh (2004).
Subscribe to our RSS feeds for all new acquisitions and new items by subject.
follow on Twitter | like on Facebook Library webpages | Echoes from the Vault | Lux: Photographic Blog | Open Access Blog | @ the library | Digital Humanities
Questions: Please email [email protected] Address:University of St Andrews Library, North Street, St Andrews KY16 9TR, Scotland Tel: +44 (0)1334 462283 Images: University of St Andrews, Elizabeth Andrews, Daryl Green, iStockphoto, www.morguefile.com, and Vicki Cormie. The University of St Andrews is not responsible for the content of external websites accessed via links in this e-newsletter.
