March 2011

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Intellectual Property Quarterly

31st March, 2011 ~ 1 answer

Hi!

Just noticed while doing some research that the Intellectual Property Quarterly journal is only listed as being a physical resource in the Law Library. However we can access this journal via Westlaw. If you do a database search for Intellectual Property Quarterly, it is listed as a database.

Maybe a link to this online database would be helpful to other students?

Thanks,

Thank you!

31st March, 2011 ~ 1 answer

A big thank you to the library for installing the stata program on the computers so quickly. This will be very convenient for everyone doing statistic-related studies. Thanks very much!

This blog

30th March, 2011 ~ 1 answer

Has the Library joined the same school of customer relations that governs Telstra? I notice that the responses to comments are no longer signed. Hiding behind anonymity. We talk to cyberpeople apparently. It was so refreshing when people were prepared to own what they said by putting their names to it.
Some of the responses are quite sharp, like the one given to the poor person who had such a runaround to find her locker key. she got a lecture on what she should have read in various emails, and was told she was lucky to have a locker so there! Worthy of Telstra indeed.

returning books to SS&H library

29th March, 2011 ~ 1 answer

I wish to complain about the new book return system for the social sciences library. I walked over from the Michie Building to return library books via the external slot on top of the building. I could not return the books because I did not have my staff card with me. The system could not be activated without my card, which is surely ludicrous. Books have always been able to be returned without a card. The new system will deter people from returning books, and people will no longer be able to return books on behalf of others. People who drive out to return books after hours will also be dismayed to find they cannot now do what used to be so simple! Once I returned with my card, I was able to return the books but the process was interminable. Each book had to be precisely placed or the machine unceremoniously spat it back – surely this is a safety risk with heavy books. And each book had to be fully digested before the next one could be loaded in – the whole thing was so slow, annoying and time-consuming. Bring back the old system – technology that is WORSE than what worked before is not progress. What’s next? A call centre?

Library Group Training Rooms and Area

29th March, 2011 ~ 1 answer

I would also like to suggest that the libraries have different sized computer areas and rooms to cater for different group sizes (e.g. small areas for smaller groups; a whole room for a large group). I have seen many instances where there are only about 6-10 people in a training group and consequently, others are not able to use the computers in that room. I hope you would consider this suggestion. Thank you.

STATA program availability

29th March, 2011 ~ 1 answer

Could you please make the STATA program available on the computers in the St Lucia campus libraries (I think they are currently only available in the science ILC computer labs)? Thank you.

Ebrary copy of Marchand "Gender and Global restructuring"

28th March, 2011 ~ 1 answer

Hi,

I've been using the online copy of Marchand and Runyan "Gender and Global restructuring" 2010, and I have found the site "ebrary" incredibly inconvenient. It is slow to turn pages (or load at all) and the print function does not work.

Buy this New Book?

27th March, 2011 ~ 1 answer

Can we order this 4th edition book?

Applied Nonparametric Statistical Methods, Fourth Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science) [Hardcover]
By
Peter Sprent (Author), Nigel C. Smeeton (Author)

see http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Nonparametric-Statistical-Methods-Chapman/...

thanks

Issues in 21st Century World Politics

25th March, 2011 ~ 2 answers

I would like to recommend that the library acquire the following book:

Title: Issues in 21st Century World Politics
Year: 2010
Edited by Mark Beeson and Nick Bisley
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

It would be a useful book for Political Science and International Studies students.

A couple of former and future POLSIS staff have contributed chapters to this book, so it would also be useful to have for the purposes of the 2011 HERDC. I will probably request this through document delivery from another library, just to ensure that it arrives in time to supply the necessary verification evidence for those chapters, but this would be a good book for the library to invest in.

Thank you,