The presentation by Erin and Deborah to the University of Canterbury's Gradfest 2010. Yellow slides are attendee's feedback (and italics are our responses to questions).
2. We’ve used libraries for…
Online journals
Ebooks
Meeting space
Microforms
Reference books
Music
Newspapers
A place to hide
DVD collection
Archives
Ask librarians for help
Actual real books!
Picture books
Ancestry.com
3. We want libraries to…
Clean up the homepage! Trying to find online journals
through the portal is a bit indirect. There’s a lot of stuff
on the homepage.
Free interloans. (Now available!)
To be quiet like they used to be! (Try Macmillan Brown)
Need librarians to police it.
Make lower floors of Central a café but stop coffee being
taken upstairs.
It’s good having lower floors chatty but need upstairs to be
quiet and no food.
Notices about food and drink are helpful.
4. We want libraries to…
Standardised and usable and logical search systems for
databases - eg HeinOnline is great; WestLaw is
appalling...
Would like acknowledgement of Zotero (does the
catalogue work with it?) and other systems.
Support of Macs would be good (Deborah at EPS Library
can field Endnote for Mac questions)
Would like department (varies between departments) to
have better relationship with subject librarian. Eg a day
when librarian comes in to talk with postgrads.
The whole campus to be a library! (The library’s probably
least hung up on the idea that library = building)
23. We still want to know…
Does the library have reciprocal arrangements?
Yes, we have them with CPIT, Lincoln, and Canterbury
Medical Library as well as most other NZ universities.
See Borrowing from other academic libraries
When does Earthquake Access end?
Mostly at the end of this year though some continue
through January or so. New eResources has details.
With Central Library closed, how can we contact
information librarians?
Email or phone to arrange to meet – find details
through subject guides or this list.
50 items60 days, subject to recall after 1 week – make sure you check or forward your uni email!request items (in library or out) & select pickup locationDVDs and leisure reading too!
Subject guideHeaps of info in How do I find…?Liaison librarian – contact us!
If you still can’t get it, put in an interloan request and we’ll get it from another library for you. Completely free.E-delivery journal articles; books longer
Manages your references – makes citing easy!Instruction at http://wiki.canterbury.ac.nz/display/LIBRARY/EndNoteTutorials available; also support from me and DaveEndNote X3 - install on your own computer