Library Podcasts & new website to help you get started with Library services

The Library has a new website, HEAR-DO-LEARN, with podcasts to provide new students with a different way of learning about our services. The site includes a top 10 list of things to know about the library helping you to access all our resources. There is also a section that promotes online tools and tutorials that can help you with your study or research.

Podcasts – listen at your leisure
To hear a podcast just click on the link and a media program will play it but you can also save the mp3 file to your own portable player i.e. ipod or other mp3 player and listen to it when ever you wish.

We plan to provide new podcasts regularly on topics that will be of interest to anyone, so stay tuned …

Library top 10 things to know
This list is a great place to start for all new students. It provides you with all the key features of the Library website, how to get onto the computers, access the databases, use the printers and photocopiers, learn about the wireless network and ask a question online.

When you don’t know what you should know this will give a great start …

Get up to speed
The Library and other support services provide excellent online help such as self-paced tutorials to help you develop better skills using both software programs and conducting your research. Infoskills is an award winning tutorial for learning important research and writing skills. ITskills includes over 100 modules for computing programs.

Go to HEAR-DO-LEARN website

Database Trials – eHRAF Collections

These trials are available until 31 May 2007.

eHRAF is produced by the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) at Yale University. The mission of HRAF, a non-profit consortium of universities and colleges, is to encourage and facilitate worldwide and other comparative studies of human behaviour, society and culture. There are two databases included in this trial:

eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
is a cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

eHRAF Collection of Archaeology
is a cross-cultural database that currently contains nearly 60,000 pages of information on the world’s prehistory. This unique, annually-growing eHRAF database is organized by archaeological traditions and the full-text sources are all subject-indexed to the paragraph level.

Don’t forget to tell us what you think about these databases via the Evaluation form, or use the Comments option below.

GLBT Life database has changed its name

Ebsco has advised us that the database GLBT Life has changed its name to LGBT Life “in response to customer feedback. The acronym ‘LGBT’ has become the more widely used and accepted descriptor for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community”.

UoN Library update

New Database – International Law in Domestic Courts

ILDC is an online law reporting service focusing on the way that courts from countries around the world deal with matters of international law. With the increased salience of international law in national legal systems, through cases involving, amongst other matters, human rights claims, contested arbitral awards, and disputes over the immunities of politicians and states, the subject is now at the forefront of international legal research. This online service highlights the full range of jurisprudence around the globe in a format that makes it easy to pinpoint specific legal issues and to compare how these issues have been dealt with in different jurisdictions.

UoN Library update