New resources in the RHH & NGH

We have added some new items to the Library’s collection.  Click on the cover and go straight to the Library record in StarPlus.

Beauchamp, T. L - Principles of biomedical ethics - 7th ed. - New York: Oxford University Press, 2013

Collier, J. A. B. - Oxford handbook of clinical specialties - Oxford: oxford University Press

Lockhart, P.B (ed.) - Oral medicine and medically complex patients - 6th ed. - Ames, Iowa: Wiley Blackwell, 2013





For a full list of new books, ordered by site, visit the library catalogue.

What a tweet

What a tweet

The University Library's Customer Services Department is using twitter to communicate news and views to our staff and students.

Find out what I am twittering on about by following UniSheffieldLib



Vic

Find it @ Sheffield

The University Library has a new platform for our eJournals. To help you search ejournals using Find it @ Sheffield we've compiled a list of ten search tips and included illustrations to demonstrate. If you have any feedback please comment or email me directly for further help.

1. If you know exactly what you're looking for you can use the 'starts with' button to be prompted with predictive text:

2. Alternatively, you may want to browse titles that contain a particular keyword:

Struggling to get hold of the books you need?

Struggling to get hold of the books you need? Ange Greenwood, Counter Coordinator in the IC and the Library’s Resident Reservations Reporter tells us how in seven simple steps …

The University Library has a very effective system in place for ensuring you get the books you need, and we normally supply material within a few days. Here’s how:

1. Check Star, the catalogue available on the Library tab in MUSE, to find the book you want


2. Make a note of whether or not it’s out on loan


3. If it’s not, write down the shelfmark and go to look for it on the shelves at the appropriate Library site


4. If the book is on loan to someone or you can’t find it on the shelves click on ‘request’ and follow the on-screen instructions (please note that if you choose Information Commons, St Georges Library or Western Bank Library as your collection site, in order to make your item available quickly you may be asked to collect it from any one of these sites)


5. If you are unable to get to the Library, find the book on Star, click on ‘request’ and follow the instructions


6. We will email you when your book is ready for collection and tell you which site you should collect it from


7. Don’t forget that staff are there to help

Remember it’s always quicker to check the shelves yourself rather than place a request, and be aware that if someone else finds the book first they can borrow it.

Ange :-)

Need help with referencing?

For those of you adding the finishing touches to your History of Medicine SSC I thought that a bit of advice on formatting your references might be timely.

This assignment requires the use of Vancouver referencing and you may find the attached resource, provided by the BMA, useful:

http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/LIBReferenceStyles

The Library has designed some further referencing guidance available at

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/useful/refs.html

and don't forget the online tutorial, written specifically for the UofS Medical School. Here is how to connect:

Step 1 Login to MUSE

Step 2 Connect to MOLE (My Online Learning Environment)



Step 3 Connect to the Library-Information skills tutorials



Step 4 Select subject specific tutorials

Step 5 Select Medicine

Step 6 Connect to the Vancover referencing tutorial





Vic :-)

Library fines … and how not to pay them …

Library fines … and how not to pay them … Exclusive interview with Lynn Greenwood, Head of Lending Services at the Univ of Sheffield Library



One issue which crops up repeatedly on the library blogs is that contentious matter of library fines and book loan periods. Vic went along to meet Lynn Greenwood, the Library's Head of Lending Services, to find out why on earth library books can only be borrowed for a week and why students can accumulate £15.00 worth of fines quicker than they can shout 'give me the directions to Blackwell's.'

Lynn has the unenviable responsibility of ensuring that the library stock circulates effectively and she has the ultimate power to decide on loan periods, library fines and indeed all matters to do with lending services.

Vic: Lynn, thank you for agreeing to contribute to the Library Blogs. With around 25,000 students and over 1.3m items in stock, it must be no mean feat to ensure that the books circulate effectively amongst our students.

Lynn: That's right, the Library issued 1.6m books last year so it is big and busy business, especially in the Information Commons where much of our undergraduate borrowing takes place.

Vic: One of our students has commented that the Library at the University of Leeds has loan periods of 12 weeks. Why are our books issued for just a week at a time?

Lynn: This particular student was undertaking an intercalated research year and as such will have benefited from the longer loan periods afforded to researchers. The University of Sheffield also grants longer loans to our research students. Leeds issue all books on student reading lists for one week only and their loans policy appears to be fairly consistent with our own.

Vic: So why do we issue books to undergraduates for just one week at a time?

The University of Sheffield Library welcomes all new Dental Students

Welcome to all new Dental Students. My name is Vicky Grant and I am the Faculty Librarian for all the departments in the Faculty of Medicine. It is my role to ensure that the University Library is providing all the information resources to support your studies and also to ensure that you are taught the skills of information literacy as part of the Dental School curriculum. Initially you will receive a lecture about the Library service and further into the course you will attend information skills workshops to support your assignments. If you need help with any aspect of the Library service then please do ask either at one of the Library Enquiry Desks or by email (library@sheffield.ac.uk ) or you can contact me directly at v.grant@sheffield.ac.uk.

Welcome to Sheffield. I hope you enjoy your time here.

Vic

:-)

The University of Sheffield Library welcomes all new Medical Students

Welcome to all new Medical Students. My name is Vicky Grant and I am the Faculty Librarian for Medicine. It is my role to ensure that the University Library is providing all the information resources to support your studies and also to ensure that you are taught the skills of information literacy as part of the Medical School curriculum. Initially you will receive a lecture about the Library service and you will also attend information skills workshops to support the History of Medicine SSC. If you need help with any aspect of the Library service then please do ask either at one of the Library Enquiry Desks or by email (library@sheffield.ac.uk ) or you can contact me directly at v.grant@sheffield.ac.uk.

Welcome to Sheffield. I hope you enjoy your time here.

Vic

:-)

Goodbye Athens: Hello seamless access to eResources

My name is Rachel Mason, I’m part of the Library’s eServices Technologies Team -we work closely with CiCS to ensure that you can access Library eResources
through MUSE, wherever you are in the world, 24/7. Over the last year, in line
with national changes, we’ve been working hard to set up Federated Access
Management (FAM) at the University. From 1 August 2008, this improved service
will be integrated into MUSE and will replace the old Athens system, and the
old Athens protection will be removed from all Library eResources.

So no more Athens, and no need to click on Athens links in order to access
Library eResources! FAM will work in the background to make your eResource
access even more simple - in other words, MUSE will do the hard work, so you
don’t have to! To access eResources from 1 August 2008, simply login to MUSE
with your institutional username & password and connect via the eResources
links on the Library tab in MUSE. (Or access via the eResources A to Z links on
the Library Web pages - you’ll be prompted to login to MUSE as necessary.)

You can find more information about this at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/libnews/accessman.html. Happy studying - and
remember, from 1 August 2008, at Sheffield, Athens will be a thing of the
past!

Rachel

Goodbye Athens: Hello seamless access to eResources

My name is Rachel Mason, I'm part of the Library's eServices Technologies Team -we work closely with CiCS to ensure that you can access Library eResources
through MUSE, wherever you are in the world, 24/7. Over the last year, in line
with national changes, we've been working hard to set up Federated Access
Management (FAM) at the University. From 1 August 2008, this improved service
will be integrated into MUSE and will replace the old Athens system, and the
old Athens protection will be removed from all Library eResources.

So no more Athens, and no need to click on Athens links in order to access
Library eResources! FAM will work in the background to make your eResource
access even more simple - in other words, MUSE will do the hard work, so you
don't have to! To access eResources from 1 August 2008, simply login to MUSE
with your institutional username & password and connect via the eResources
links on the Library tab in MUSE. (Or access via the eResources A to Z links on
the Library Web pages - you'll be prompted to login to MUSE as necessary.)

You can find more information about this at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/libnews/accessman.html.  Happy studying - and
remember, from 1 August 2008, at Sheffield, Athens will be a thing of the
past!

Rachel