Day 2 - Celebrating libaries with Cookie Monster

Another personal favourite of mine - Cookie Monster visits the library.

Scroll down for the acrostic poem of the day.

Large are these houses where one find,
Industries of the human mind:
Bound and amassed in paper banks,
Rough, smooth and some of highest ranks;
And there are stored the treasures old,
Rare, rare and precious fruits of gold:
Indited by the quills of men,
Einstein and Keats, and of women
Sylvia Plath and Dickinson

(Anonymous)

Love in the Library

Our Love Libraries display is flourishing with ♥.

Come and add yours to share the love!

Day 1 - Librarians go Gaga

This Saturday is National Libraries Day, devoted to all types of libraries, library users, staff and supporters across the UK.

Help us celebrate all week by adding a heart shaped post-it note to our display, saying why you love libraries.

Alternatively, add an online post-it note at http://linoit.com/users/astraker/canvases/Love%20Libraries

Each day this week I will be adding a poem and a YouTube clip about libraries, just for fun, starting with my personal favourite...

My Library

By Varda One

It's only a room with shelves and books,
but it's far more magical than it looks

It's a jet on which I soar
to lands that exist no more.

Or a key with which I find
answers to questions crowding my mind.

Building my habit of learning and growing,
asking and researching till I reach knowing.

Here, I've been a mermaid and an elf
I've even learned to be more myself.

I think that I shall never see
a place that's been more useful to me.

With encouraging kind friends with wit
Who tell me to dream big and never quit.

It's only a room with shelves and books,
but it's far more magical than it looks.

"Gung Hey Fat Choi"

"Happy Chinese New Year"

Welcome to the year of the dragon.

If you fancy cooking Chinese tonight, or seeing if your Chinese astrological sign is compatible with someone else's, pop in and see our display of resources.

The stunning dragons were made by one of the Foundation Studies book groups.

Lost without Wikipedia?

Lost without Wikipedia today?

Follow these links to go to online resources for your subject area:

> Blackboard homepage 
> Information Store 
> Subject Resources 
> Select your subject on the right 
> Scroll down for e-journals and recommended websites.

Or pop in and ask us!

UEA access fixed

 

A number of you have been having problems logging into the UEA e-resources, with an error message appearing about cookies.  This error now appears to have been fixed - please let us know if you continue to experience problems.

HE survey

HE Survey 2011/12

 

We need you to tell us how your HE experience has been at the College in 2011/12.   

By anonymously completing a short questionnaire, we’ll get feedback on what we are doing well, what things you like and don’t like and what areas we could improve.  So please follow the instructions below to complete the survey between Monday 9^th Jan and Friday 28^th Jan.

 

Just follow these 3 easy steps:

1. Log on to the following link:  www.qdpservices.com/survey   (This link will also appear under the “My Announcements” section of the student home page on Blackboard.)

 

2. Enter:

· Your student number as the “login code” (the number on their ID badge. This is only so we can connect your responses up with your course, we will not be able to see your individual response)

· 18867 as the “survey code”

3. Complete the 23 questions and press “finish” (NB if you exit without pressing finish they will not have submitted any information.  If you do exit without pressing “finish”, you can re-start the survey and complete it by pressing “finish”)

You can only do the survey once, but we’d like everyone to give us their views.

Problems accessing SportDiscus journals database?

We are currently experiencing problems with accessing the SportDiscus database, available via UEA.

If you need to access SportDiscus, follow this path:
> Blackboard
> Information Store
> UEA button
> Scroll down to UEA e-resources link
> Select Academic Search Elite
> Select "Choose databases", and change   database to SportDiscus.

See screenshot below:

Any problems, please come in and see us, or give us a ring on 01603 773224, or email tis@ccn.ac.uk

UEA library trials 24/7 opening

Click the link below for more details:

http://www.uea.ac.uk/is/news/library-24-hour-opening

i newspaper

We are now receiving i newspaper, part of the Independent newspaper group.

It contains a concise round-up world news, ideal for a quick catch-up.

Do you have a spare 10 minutes between lectures? Pop into the Information Store and browse the magazines and newspapers, on the right as you come in.

Can't find what you're looking for? Just ask and we will be happy to help.

How do you prefer to catch up on daily news?

New Year's resolutions?

Welcome back and Happy New Year!

So, did you make any New year's resolutions? I made a few, one of which is to eat more healthily - my desk looks like a greengrocers!

If you have made any new Year's resolutions, or need inspiration, pop in and look at our book display for ideas to kick start 2012 the way YOU want to.



(This book is on the Book Zone at 641.552 DAV)