January 2012

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Suggested purchase

18th January, 2012 ~ 1 answer

Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teen Childbearing
Frank F. Furstenberg 2010

https://www.russellsage.org/publications/destinies-disadvantaged-0

The book includes data from a long-running (40 years) birth cohort in Baltimore. Well known academic in developmental, youth and family studies.
I hope the library will consider purchasing.

Kaeleen

Just a suggestion. It would be really useful if the export feature in the catalogue was also available within My Records - checked out list. In other words, I'd like to be able to export all the items I currently have checked out to Endnote at once.

Regards, Chris

List of "holds" is not up to date

17th January, 2012 ~ 1 answer

Hi,

According to your list of books you're holding for me, I have not collected Maths Quest 11C and Aesops Fables. This is not correct: I took them out yesterday.

Regards
Charles

Recommend resource

13th January, 2012 ~ 1 answer

I'd like to recommend the addition of two ebooks to the library.

Schistosoma Japonicum: Global Status
and
Infectious Diseases of the Philippines

Both are published by GIDEON. These would be personally very helpful in my PhD studies.

Thanks,

Catherine

Placing hold on a book at a different campus

12th January, 2012 ~ 1 answer

Dear Library,

The UQ Library system basically does not allow you to place a book on hold. It is extraordinary. For example, a book at the PA Hospital library is available there, and I am going to the PA tomorrow, but I am not able to place it on hold. I have to take the chance that it will still be there tomorrow. I can request the book to be sent to St Lucia or another campus, where it will be held on arrival, but that is an entirely unnecessary exercise.

Regards

Please purchase?

12th January, 2012 ~ 1 answer

Can this be bought for SPADS, please? I imagine ITEE students would also find it useful.

Thanks
Belinda Weaver

Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics by Nathan Yau

Publisher: Wiley

ISBN-10: 0470944889 | ISBN-13: 978-0470944882 | Publication Date: July 20, 2011

http://book.flowingdata.com/

Web Page redesign

10th January, 2012 ~ 1 answer

Hi
I am a PhD student and I am writing to provide feeedback on the Web Page redesign.
Unfortunately I have found it to be very time consuming, frustrating and difficault to navigate. It is difficult just to locate "my record". The previous Web Page was much more user friendly.
Regards,
Christine

Suggested purchase

10th January, 2012 ~ 1 answer

The Jungle Effect by Dr Daphne Miller.
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: William Morrow (April 29, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061535656
ISBN-13: 978-0061535659

Request for AV material

5th January, 2012 ~ 1 answer

I was away last semester, and therefore overlooked asking the offairs service to tape the ABC series "Crownies".
I would like to request that it be purchased for the Law Library
many thanks
Clare

UQ eSpace

5th January, 2012 ~ 1 answer

Hi,

When I search for my name on UQ eSpace it comes back with a list of my publications, by default sorted by relevance. Two points:
1) I have no idea what the algorithm is to assess relevance, but it is certainly not a good one. It manages to return as most relevant a publication that I marked in eSpace as not be be mine! And it is not by another UQ researcher either, so it should not even show up in the list.
2) The rest of the list are indeed my publications, but the order is seemingly completely random.

Given these two points, I have two suggestions:
1) Make sure that publications marked as not by the UQ researcher do not show up anymore.
2) Change the default order of presentation to 'by date'.

Thank you,

Jan