The Central Library will close on Wednesday 23rd December at 13.00, and reopen on Monday 4 January 08.30.
Full details on opening hours can be found here.
Our latest selection of new purchases for the Business collection can now be viewed.
Central Library offers extended loan periods on books over the Xmas holiday period.
SHORT LOANS – From Wed 16 Dec, these will be due on Mon 4 Jan for Postgraduate students.
STANDARD LOANS – From Wed 2 Dec, these will be due on Mon 4 Jan for Postgraduate students.
CORE TEXTS – From Friday 18 Dec, these will be due Mon 4 Jan for Postgraduate students
The Social Science Research Network has released a free iPhone application. This allows iPhone and iPhone Touch users to search and view full text papers from the database. The application is available from the iTunes store.
The Social Science Research Network contains working papers in economics, accounting, entrepreneurship, finance and management.
Complete the 2009 Library Survey now!
The library wants to know what you think about our services and how you use them. Do you love e-books or want more books on the shelves? Is it easy to find what you want? Is the library too noisy or too quiet?
Tell us what you think by completing our survey – it only takes five minutes of your time and you could win one of three £50 Amazon vouchers in our prize draw!
Take the survey now at – http://www.imperial.ac.uk/library/survey
The survey closes on Monday 30 November so don’t wait too long!
We’ll be publishing the results of the survey in early 2010 and what you say will help inform us how we can improve services for you. Paper copies of the survey are available on request.
Our latest list of new titles purchased for the Business collection is now available:
Business New Books 1109
Intute have a number of tutorials aimed at guiding students through the best of the internet for their particular subject. The tutorials are interactive and aim to develop internet research skills. Tutorials available are:
A full list can be found here.
The Library is gathering information on electronic books, and what our users think of this means of presenting information.
Head on over to the Library website and look for the poll on the front page to give us your opinion
The Library subscribes to a selection of electronic books which can be viewed in your web browser.
Some of these titles are copies of Recommended Reading books from lists sent to the Library by academic staff.
Have a look at the new page we have created (available from the right-hand menu on this blog) to see the e-books available for your course.
DataStream is a powerful financial database, which can be used at 3 dedicated PCs on the ground floor at Central Library.
A recent change to this database means that users now need to install DataStream’s AFO add-in themselves, in order to make use of DataStream’s functionality within Microsoft Excel.
To do this, look for an icon on your desktop when using DataStream, labelled “Set up DataStream Excel add-in”. Simply click the icon to set up the add-in.
You only need to do this once, the AFO add-in will then appear within Excel each time you use DataStream.